#Hereditary Grand Duke George Donatus

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Nicholas II, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duke Ernst’s sons and unknown ladies, probably Nannies

Grand Duchess Anastasia and her cousins. There is a little boy I don’t recognize.

Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig with his sons, George Donatus and Ludwig and his nieces the Grand Duchesses.

Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duke Ernst were excellent fathers who enjoyed their children

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Grand Duchess Eleanore of Hesse with her two sons, Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus and Prince Ludwig. Courtesy of Schloss Wolfsgarten.

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Ernst Louis and his son Georg Donatus in 1907❤️.

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I am beginning to fall in love with Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig’s boys. They are very cute. And there is a definite resemblance between Alexey and this two cousins. They all have that Hessian cutie gene. (gcl)

OTMAA’s Hessian cousins Georg Donatus and Louis (Ludwig). 

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Princess Cecilie of G&D (Greece and Denmark) 🇬🇷🇩🇰 on her wedding day as she marries Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, 🇩🇪 on 15th December 1930.

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✵ February 2, 1931 ✵

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark & Prince Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

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"Georg Donatus, but call me Don." Don smiled politely, offering his hand. "Formerly the hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine?"

Klaus had politely declined Sam’s offer of a walk, and instead was waiting for his 1WO to turn up. Karla was asleep by his feet, so he couldn’t pace - instead, he was reading a book borrowed from Sam, looking very peaceful.

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Ernest Louis, last Grand Duke of Hesse, with his second wife Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and their two sons Georg Donatus and Louis, ca. 1910.

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16 November was a tragic day for the Hessian Grand Ducal Family.

1) Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (age 4) died on 16 November 1878 of diphteria.

2) Marie's niece Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (age 8) died on 16 November 1903 of virulent typhoid.

3) On 16 November 1937, Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse and by Rhine died in an airplane crash on her way to her son Louis' wedding in London. Also killed in the crash was her elder son Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, his wife Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, and their two sons, Ludwig and Alexander.

May all these souls rest in peace.

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Princes in sailor suits

Even today, once in a while, we’ll see a little boy (or girl) walking down the boardwalk on a beach, or playing by a lake, wearing a little sailor suit. Of course, they are not the uniforms they used to be. But they are still just as flattering and still out there.

Here are several pictures of young princes wearing their sailor suits: Tsarevich Alexis; Prince Lennart of Sweden, son of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the younger and Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Sodermanland; Prince John, youngest son of George V and Queen Mary; Prince George of Greece and Denmark; George Donatus and Louis, sons of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse; Prince Feodor Alexandrovich, son of the daughter of Tsar Alexander III, Xenia Alexandrovna, and Grand Duke Alexander; Prince Ioann and Prince Gavriil Konstantinovich and between them, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark.

And to cap the post, two of our present royalties, looking their handsomest wearing sailor suits.

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91 years since Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark weds Prince Christoph of Hesse

On December 15, 1930

Princess Sophie of Greece and Prince Christoph of Hesse were married in Greek Orthodox and Lutheran services at Schloss Kronberg near Frankfurt.  

Prince Christoph Ernst August of Hesse was born on May 14, 1901, the 6th son of Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse and Princess Margarete of Prussia, the youngest daughter of Emperor Friedrich III and his wife, Princess Victoria, eldest child of the late Queen Victoria.   Christoph has a twin brother, Prince Richard.

Margarete's eldest brother is the former Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has lived in exile in the Netherlands since November 1918.

The new Princess Christoph is only 16 years old.  She is the fourth daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg.  She is a granddaughter of King George of the Hellenes and Grand Duchess Olga of Russia.

Sophie was born in Corfu, Greece on June 26, 1914.  She has three older sisters,  Princess Margarita, Princess Theodora, and Princess Cecile, and a younger brother, Prince Philip.

The bride and groom are both descendants of Queen Victoria.  Christoph is a great-grandson of Victoria and Sophie is a great-great-granddaughter.   Sophie's grandmother,  Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the eldest daughter of Princess Alice, Queen Victoria's second daughter and third child, and Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.

Sophie was named for her paternal aunt, Queen Sophie of Greece, the consort of King Constantine of the Hellenes.

Neither Queen Sophie, who was Margarete's sister, nor Sophie's mother, Princess Alice, were able to attend the wedding.

Prince Christoph and Princess Sophie became engaged in June.  A joint celebration with Sophie's sister, Cecile, and her fiance, Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse and By Rhine, took place at Wolfsgarten.

Sophie's trousseau was made in France.  Her sister Cecile, described Sophie's wedding dress as "too beautiful for words."  The satin gown was "quite simple," according to Cecile.

Sophie's siblings, Theodora, Cecile, and Philip, helped her get dressed for the wedding.   

Prince Friedrich Karl loaned his future daughter-in-law Empress Friedrich's diamond tiara.

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The couple was married in two religious services.  A Greek Orthodox service took place in the drawing-room at Kronberg.  Prince Philip carried his sister's train.  This was followed by the Lutheran service at the Schloss' chapel.  Sophie was accompanied to the church by her father, her brother, and her grandmother, Victoria.

91 χρόνια από τότε που η πριγκίπισσα Σοφία της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας παντρεύτηκε τον Πρίγκιπα Χριστόφορο της Έσσης

Στις 15 Δεκεμβρίου 1930

Η πριγκίπισσα Σοφία της Ελλάδας και ο πρίγκιπας Χριστόφορος της Έσσης παντρεύτηκαν με ελληνορθόδοξες και λουθηρανικές ακολουθίες στο Schloss Kronberg κοντά στη Φρανκφούρτη.

Ο πρίγκιπας Χριστοφορος Ερνέστος Αυγούστος της Έσσης γεννήθηκε στις 14 Μαΐου 1901, ο 6ος γιος του πρίγκιπα Φρειδερίκου Καρολου της Έσσης και της πριγκίπισσας Mαργαριτας της Πρωσίας, της μικρότερης κόρης του αυτοκράτορα Φρειδερίκου Γ’ και της συζύγου του, πριγκίπισσας Βικτωριας μεγαλύτερο παιδί της αείμνηστης βασίλισσας Βικτωριας του ΗΒ . Ο Χριστοφορος είχε έναν δίδυμο αδερφό, τ��ν πρίγκιπα Ριχάρδο

Ο μεγαλύτερος αδερφός της Mαργαριτας είναι ο πρώην Καιζερ Γουλιελμος Β’ ο οποίος ζει εξόριστος στην Ολλανδία από τον Νοέμβριο του 1918.

Η νέα πριγκίπισσα Χριστοφορου είναι μόλις 16 ετών. Είναι η τέταρτη κόρη του πρίγκιπα Ανδρέα της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας και της πριγκίπισσας Αλίκης του Battenberg. Είναι εγγονή το�� Βασιλιά των Ελλήνων Γεωργίου και της Μεγάλης Δούκισσας Όλγας της Ρωσίας.

Η Σοφία γεννήθηκε στην Κέρκυρα, στην Ελλάδα στις 26 Ιουνίου 1914.  Έιχε τρεις μεγαλύτερες αδερφές, την πριγκίπισσα Μαργαρίτα, την πριγκίπισσα Θεοδώρα και την πριγκίπισσα Κεκιλια και έναν μικρότερο αδερφό, τον πρίγκιπα Φίλιππο μετέπειτα Δούκα του Εδιμβουργου Συζύγου της Βασίλισσας Ελισαβετ Β’ του ΗΒ

Η νύφη και ο γαμπρός είναι και οι δύο απόγονοι της βασίλισσας Βικτώριας. Ο Χριστοφορος είναι δισέγγονος της Βικτώριας και η Σόφια είναι τρισέγγονη. Η γιαγιά της Σοφίας ,  η Βικτόρια, Μαρκησία του Μίλφορντ Χέιβεν, ήταν η μεγαλύτερη κόρη της πριγκίπισσας Αλίκης, δεύτερης κόρης και τρίτου παιδιού της βασίλισσας Βικτώριας, και του Μεγάλου Δούκα Λουδοβίκου της Έσσης και του Ρήνου.

Η Σόφια πήρε το όνομά της από τη θεία της από τον πατέρα της, τη βασίλισσα Σοφία της Ελλάδος, σύζυγο του βασιλιά των Ελλήνων Κωνσταντίνου.

Ούτε η βασίλισσα Σόφια η οποία ήταν αδερφή της Μαργαρίτας, ούτε η μητέρα της Σόφιας , η πριγκίπισσα Αλίκη, δεν μπόρεσαν να παρευρεθούν στον γάμο.

Ο πρίγκιπας Χριστοφορος και η πριγκίπισσα Σοφία αρραβωνιάστηκαν τον Ιούνιο. Μια κοινή γιορτή με την αδερφή της Σοφίας Κεκιλιας , και τον αρραβωνιαστικό της, Μέγα Δούκα Γεωργίου Δονατιου της Έσσης και του Ρήνου, πραγματοποιήθηκε στο Wolfsgarten.

Η προίκα της Σοφιας κατασκευάστηκε στη Γαλλία. Η αδερφή της Κεκιλια περιέγραψε το νυφικό της Σοφιας ως «πολύ όμορφο για το περιγράψουν λόγια». Το σατέν φόρεμα ήταν «αρκετά απλό», σύμφωνα με τη Κεκιλια .

Τα αδέρφια της Σοφίας Θεοδωρα Κεκιλια και Φιλιππος τη βοήθησαν να ντυθεί για το γάμο.

Ο πρίγκιπας Φρειδερίκος Κάρολος δάνεισε τη διαμαντένια τιάρα στην μέλλουσα νύφη του, που ανήκε στην Αυτοκράτειρα Φρειδερίκου

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Το ζευγάρι παντρεύτηκε σε δύο θρησκευτικές λειτουργίες. Η Ελληνορθόδοξη λειτουργία έγινε στο σαλό��ι στο Kronberg. Ο πρίγκιπας Φίλιππος κρατούσε το πεπλο της αδερφής του. Ακολούθησε η λουθηρανική λειτουργία στο παρεκκλήσι του Schloss. Την Σόφια συνόδευαν στην εκκλησία ο πατέρας της, ο αδερφός της και η γιαγιά της, Βικτώρια.

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Today is the 118th birthday of Georg Donatus.

he was the son of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. Georg married Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, in 1931. They had three children: Ludwig, Alexander, and Johanna.

Georg Donatus and his family tragically died in an airplane crash in Belgium on November 16, 1937, while en route to London for the wedding of his brother, Prince Ludwig. The crash claimed the lives of Georg Donatus, Cecilie, their two young sons, and Cecilie’s unborn child.

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Family Holiday visit ~ Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse and Вy Rhine, Princess Louise of Battenberg, Prince Waldemar of Prussia, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia, Grand Duke Ernst-Ludwig of Hesse and By Rhine, Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse and By Rhine, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova at Нemmelmark, German Empire 27-28 July 1909.

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HRH Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine Princess Cécile is the sister of the Duke of Edinburgh. She was married to Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse in 1931. They both became members of the Nazi Party by 1937 and died in a plane crash shortly after.

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House of Oldenburg & of Hesse: Princess Cecilie “Cécile” of Greece and Denmark

Cecilie is the third child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and his wife Princess Alice of Battenberg. She is the younger sister of Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Theodora, Margravine of Baden. Her younger siblings are Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark as well as Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. Among family and friends, she was known as Cécile.

In December 1922, she fled Greece alongside her family on a British ship. They went into exile in France and lived in a Parisian house which was lent to them Princess Marie Bonaparte, the wife of her uncle Prince George of Greece and Denmark. In private, the family spoke mostly French, German and English and not much of Greek, as reported by Prince Philip. Cecilie’s youth was not easy since her family was now poor and her father left his family for his mistress. Meanwhile, her mother, Princess Alice, opened an art and needlework shop to keep the family afloat. In 1930, Cecilie’s mother was sent to a mental asylum in Switzerland to treat her for schizophrenia.

In 1931, Cecilie married Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, in Darmstadt. He was her first cousin once removed through Princess Alice and the son of Cecilie’s godfather Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse and by Rhine. The mass that wanted to watch the wedding parade was so huge that although the cars were escorted by police the bride, groom, the groom’s brother and father as well the bride’s father had to walk to church. The bridal couple knew each other since childhood because the Battenbergs were a fairly new morganatic cadet branch of the House of Hesse. Battenberg was Cecilie’s mother’s house of birth. Seven months and 23 days after the wedding, Cecilie’s first child Prince Ludwig was born. Prince Alexander and Princess Johanna followed in 1933 and 1936 respectively.

Cecilie’s husband was a reserve officer of the Luftwaffe (German air force). The couple joined the ruling Nazi party on May 1st, 1937. When Cecilie’s father-in-law died the same October, the parade in his honor was taken over by the Nazis.

Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine was due to marry Margaret Campbell Geddes just a few weeks later in London. Georg Donatus and Cecilie, who was afraid of flying, decided to fly to the wedding and take along their two oldest sons. At this time, Cecilie was eight months pregnant with another prince. Unfortunately, the airplane crashed in Belgium near Ostend on November 16th, 1937. Everyone on board died. Later parts of a baby’s body were found which led to the conclusion that Cecilie must have gone into labour during the flight and that an attempted emergency landing had gone wrong due to the bad weather. The only surviving member of the family was Johanna who was adopted by Ludwig and Margaret. Unfortunately, she too died two years later from meningitis.

Cecilie is buried alongside her sons and husband at Rosenhöhe in Darmstadt, the traditional burial place of the House of Hesse. She was the first of her siblings to die.

// Leonie Benech as Princess Cecilie in The Crown