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The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The grand duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen).
Royal Standard of the Grand Duke of Hesse 1903–1918. This is a list of monarchs of Hesse (German: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany. These monarchs belonged to a dynasty collectively known as the House of Hesse and the House of Brabant, originally the Reginar.
- 1264
- Ernest Louis (as grand duke)
- Henry I (as landgrave)
- His Royal Highness
The grand duke Louis I (reigned 1768–1830) granted Hesse-Darmstadt a constitution in 1820, carried through other reforms, and made the grand duchy the first of the southern German states to join the Prussian Zollverein (Customs Union).
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Titular Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
In 1937, Cecilie became pregnant again. At the same time, the health of her father-in-law, Grand Duke Ernest Louis, deteriorated sharply. Suffering from lung cancer, the former ruler hoped to live long enough to attend the wedding of his second son, Louis, to Hon. Margaret Campbell Geddes, scheduled to take place in London on 23 October 1937. However, the Grand Duke died a few days before the ceremony, on 9 October, making Georg Donatus the new head of House of Hesse-Darmstadt. Under these ci...
Commemoration
On 16 November 2017 in Darmstadt, the Hessian State Archives, in collaboration with the Foundation of the House of Hesse (Hessische Hausstiftung), held a commemorative ceremony in honor of the victims of the accident in Ostend. On this occasion, wreaths were placed on the vault of Cecilie and her family, in Rosenhöhe.
Documentaries
The plane crash that caused the death of Princess Cecilie and her family was recounted in the sixth episode of the documentary series Mémoires d'exil (1999) by Frédéric Mitterrand.
TV series
The death of Cecilie and her family is also mentioned by the character of Prince Philip, in the third episode ("Windsor") of the first season of the series The Crown (2016), and by a journalist, in the second episode ("A Company of Men") of the second season (2017). It is also depicted in the ninth episode of season 2 ("Paterfamilias"), during a flashback to Philip's early years. In this episode, Princess Cecilie is portrayed by German actress Leonie Benesch. However, this fictionalised versi...
On Cecilie and her family
1. Knöß, Carsten (2017). Notizen zur Ortsgeschichte: Zur Erinnerung - †16. November 1937(in German). Vol. 30. Geschichtsverein Egelsbach e.V. 2. Mateos Sainz de Medrano, Ricardo (2004). "Cecilia de Grecia, gran duquesa heredera de Hesse y del Rhin". La Familia de la Reina Sofía: La Dinastía griega, la Casa de Hannover y los reales primos de Europa (in Spanish). Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros. pp. 299–302. ISBN 978-84-9734-195-0.
Biographies of Cecilie's relatives
1. Bertin, Celia (1999). Marie Bonaparte (in French). Paris: Perrin. ISBN 2-262-01602-X. 2. (in French) Delorme, Philippe (2017). Philippe d'Édimbourg: Une vie au service de Sa Majesté (in French). Paris: Tallandier. ISBN 979-10-210-2035-1. 3. Eade, Philip (2012). Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life. HarperPress. ISBN 978-0-00-730539-1. 4. Heald, Tim (1991). The Duke: A Portrait of Prince Philip. Londres: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-54607-7. 5. Knodt, Manfred (1978). Ernst Ludw...
Other works on royal families
1. Beéche, Arturo E.; Miller, Ilana D. (2020). The Grand Ducal House of Hesse. Eurohistory. ISBN 978-1944207083. 2. Duff, David (1979). Hessian Tapestry: Hesse Family and British Royalty. David & Charles. ISBN 0715378384. 3. Mitterrand, Frédéric (1999). Mémoires d'exil (in French). Robert Laffont. p. 333. ISBN 978-2-221-09023-7. 4. Petropoulos, Jonathan (2006). Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press. p. 524. ISBN 978-0-19-533927-7. 5. Van der Kis...
- 23 November 1937, Rosenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
- Glücksburg
The Grand Duchy of Hesse ( German: Großherzogtum Hessen) was a former state that existed in modern-day Germany. It was formed in 1806 after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire as a result of the actions of Napoleon, who then elevated the former Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt to the level of grand duchy.
- 7,688.36 km² (2,968.49 sq mi)
- Monarchy
- Darmstadt
- Succeeded by
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The grand duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
1596. Ludwig's younger brother, Philipp, forms the short-lived cadet branch of Hessen-Butzbach as Philipp III, continuing the numbering which had started with Philip of Hesse and which had continued with Philipp II of Hessen-Rheinfels.
