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The funeral and burial of Georg Donatus and his family took place at the Rosenhöhe, Darmstadt, Hesse, a few days later. Attending were Prince Philip , [ 9 ] Prince Christoph of Hesse , Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg , Prince Philipp of Hesse , Berthold, Margrave of Baden , Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia and Lord Louis Mountbatten ...
Since her childhood, Cecilie had in fact been in contact with her cousins, Princes Georg Donatus and Louis of Hesse, whom she first met in 1919, while she was living in exile in Switzerland. [79] The relationship between the princess and Georg Donatus turned into a romance during the year 1929 and the two were unofficially engaged in early 1930 ...
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Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (1906–1937). He married Ernest's grand-niece, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, a sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and had issue. The couple and two of their young sons were killed in a plane crash in 1937, leaving behind a daughter who also died two years later, while yet a child.
He succeeded his brother Georg Donatus, the last Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, as head of the formerly grand ducal House of Hesse-Darmstadt after Georg Donatus' premature death.
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse; L. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse; Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse This page was last edited on 31 August 2024, at 21:24 ...
Donatus married Countess Floria Franziska Marie-Luisa Erika von Faber-Castell (born 14 October 1974, Düsseldorf) in a civil ceremony in Wiesbaden on 25 April 2003. The bride is a communications professional and a niece of Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, chairman of the board of the famous Faber-Castell pen-and-pencil company headquartered near Nuremberg and scion of the eponymous ...
George Christian: 13 November 1625: 1669–1671: 27 August 1681: Hesse-Homburg: Anna Catharina Pogwitsch 11 October 1666 Hamburg no children: Retained his brother's land. Hesse-Homburg became under mortgage to two merchants (1671–1673) and to the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt (1673–1679). Hesse-Homburg returned then to George Christian's ...