Cecilie of Prussia (1917–1975)

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from right to left: Cecilie, her mother Cecilie and sister Alexandrine in 1934
Family reunion in Gelbensande (1920s) Cecilie in the second row in front of her mother

Cecilie Viktoria Anastasia Zita Thyra Adelheid Princess of Prussia (born September 5, 1917 in Cecilienhof Palace , Potsdam , † April 21, 1975 in Königstein im Taunus ) was the youngest child of Crown Prince Wilhelm and a member of the House of Hohenzollern .

Life

Cecilie was born in 1917 as the youngest child of Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife Cecilie in Cecilienhof Palace . Her family had only moved there four weeks earlier. After the November Revolution, she left Potsdam with her mother and moved to Oels ( province of Silesia ) for the next few years , where a castle remained for the Hohenzollern family.

From 1932 to 1934 Cecilie went to the women's monastery in Heiligengrabe before she worked in the Hohenzollers house archive in Berlin. During the Second World War , Cecilie worked in the pharmacy of the Potsdam reserve hospital before taking her exam as a nurse's assistant at the German Red Cross . When the Red Army approached Berlin , they moved to Wolfsgarten , where they were taken in by relatives.

In 1949 Cecilie married the Texan interior designer Clyde Kenneth Harris. She followed him to the USA , to his hometown of Amarillo . There she gave birth to her only daughter, Kira, in 1954. Her husband died four years later.

Cecilie died unexpectedly in 1975 during a spa stay in Königstein im Taunus. She was buried in the small family cemetery in the officers 'garden of the St. Michaels Bastion within Hohenzollern Castle, where her parents' graves are also located.

progeny

Cecilie and her husband had a daughter:

  • Kira Alexandrine Brigid Cecilie Ingrid Harris (born October 20, 1954) ⚭ 1982–1994 John Mitchell Johnson (born May 12, 1951):
    • Philip Louis Johnson (born October 18, 1985)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kira Alexandrine Brigid Cecilie Ingrid Harris on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Prussia, Cecilie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prussia, Cecilie Viktoria Anastasia Zita Thyra Adelheid von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German noblewoman, daughter of the German Crown Prince Wilhelm
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Cecilienhof Palace , Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1975
Place of death Königstein im Taunus