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Nov 16, 2022 · Today marks the 85th anniversary of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh’s beloved sister, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, who was killed while eight months pregnant in a plane crash that also claimed the lives of six others.
Jan 19, 2023 · Princess Cecilie was Prince Philip's third-oldest sister. She married Georg Donatus, the Grand Duke of Hesse, and quickly gave birth to two sons and a daughter.
Cecilie – who was 26 at the time – her husband Donatus, their two young sons and Georg's mother Grand Duchess Eleonore boarded a plane to London from Darmstadt, with the intention of attending...
She was also the third-eldest sister to Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (later Duke of Edinburgh). The third of five children of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg , Cecilie had a happy childhood.
The plane really did crash, killing Philip’s sister and her whole family. There was a newborn found in the wreckage. At 16, Philip walked behind the caskets at their funeral, surrounded by ...
Nov 10, 2022 · Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark was the sister of Prince Philip, and she died in an airplane crash in 1937, aged 26. Cecilie was married to a German noble, and went into labor whilst she...
Dec 14, 2017 · She and her family did die in a plane crash on the way to a wedding. Cecilie, pregnant at the time, did give birth during the flight, and her newborn baby was found among the smoking rubble.
