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How Prince Philip’s ‘favourite sister’, Princess Cecilie, died alongside her sons in a plane crash, on the anniversary of the tragic accident. Today marks 85 years since Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark died alongside her family. By Natasha Leake and Stephanie Bridger-Linning.

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...

Princess Alice died of diphtheria on Dec. 14, 1878, the first child of Victoria and Albert to die. She left behind five living children—Victoria, Irene, Ernest, and the doomed Ella and Alix, who...

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (22 June 1911 – 16 November 1937) was the sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She was born in Tatoi, Greece as the third child and daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. She usually went by Cécile.

His sister, Princess Cecilie, was the third of Prince Philip's siblings, born in 1911 on the Greek royal family's estate in Tatoi, Greece. She married Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse in 1931, and they had three children (via Salon Privé Magazine ). The princess was eight months pregnant with her fourth child when she, her husband ...

Princess Cecilie of Denmark and Greece died while flying from Germany to London for a wedding after the aircraft crashed into a factory building and blew up in flames. Everybody on board was killed, including the royal's husband and her two sons. At the time, 16-year-old Prince Philip was at Gordonstoun, a private boarding school in Scotland.

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark ( Greek: Καικιλία, romanized: Kaikilía; 22 June 1911 – 16 November 1937) was by birth a Greek and Danish princess who became titular Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine through her marriage to Prince Georg Donatus, pretender to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark was born on 22 June 1911 as the third daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Her elder sisters were Margarita and Theodora. Her younger siblings were Sophie and Philip (later Duke of Edinburgh as the consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom). As her birth fell on ...