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Sisters of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Portraits of the four sisters of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, pictured in 1930. Top left is Princess Margaret or Margarita of Greece (1905 -1981), Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, top right is Princess Sophia of Greece (1914 - 2001), Princess of Hesse-Cassel, bottom right, Princess Cecilie (Cecile) of Greece (1911 -1937), Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine and bottom left, Princess Theodora of Greece (1906 - 1969), Margravine of Baden. All married to German minor royals, none of the Duke's sisters were invited to the royal wedding of 1947. Princess Cecile died tragically in a plane crash, together with her husband, two children and unborn fourth child in 1937 on the way to a wedding

Picture No
13732064
Media ID
45395284
Size
3717px x 5154px (3.1MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photographs in The Tatler, 3 December 1930. Image digitally colourised using AI
Date
1930

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