The Tragic Death Of Prince Philip's Sister, Princess Cecilie 

Its heartbreaking. Yes poor little baby.

Was the baby a boy or a girl? Did he/she have a name?

@@MaryTheresa1986 OMG really !!

@@hotoneinspai 🤨🤨

OMG, so tragic

@@sigiloXXX Its all right. In the end the Queen gave him a very loving home..

How sad!

@@tamaliaalisjahbana9354 I’m not sure he saw it that way.

Oh noooo. I have 10 castles but none of them are good enough for me!

Well they move a lot because of War, and they stayed at Britain which is not his home, but he seemed to feel home there

Really...?? Is it mentioned somewhere on Internet?

@@dhar2003 Yes, it is. Google.

Cursed or just evil AF and deserved what they got

@@boondoggled1 Nobody deserves to die of meningitis three years old, or to lose their parents, grandmother and three brothers at the age of two.

@@boondoggled1 you are talking about a child.

Thank you for highlighting that important fact about the diagnosis of Princess Alice, Prince Philip's Mother.

Thst wouldn't surprise me in the least.

In any event she emerged from the institution and lived a very good and even exemplary life for the rest of her days. She lived simply and devoted a lot of time to helping poor people and charitable causes.

Absolutely true... Princess Alice of Battenberg, Phillips Mother was getting more and more profoundly deaf and any "defect" was seen as a blotch on the family... As her Husband Prince Andrew pointed out to her daily. I do think Phillips Mother had a Psychotic episode ... Probably brought on by the disdain that Prince Andrew treated her... Flaunting a his mistress's and squandering any money they had and the fact they were homeless...& stateless...& that she was expected to approach HER family for support ... However; the treatment she endured...mostly because her own Mother had her committed, is shocking.

Very true ! She suffered so much.... a saintly soul !

The queen needed Phillip and he needed her...this is a marriage. To maintain oneself to fill in the gaps of your better half and make the other better for that.

I'm apologize for the outburst, it was rude, please forgive me, countless Japanese fought with honor during the war, it is just the Germans have carried this Nazi burden for decades as though they are the only ones who have done unspeakable things in times of war and that is just not true, all nations are marked throughout their history with blood shed and cruelty and there have always been those among them that opposed these actions. I again apologize for my comment made earlier. Have a nice day.

She wasn’t the only one. 3 of his sisters were Nazis

But she was a nazi................

@@bubblybubblz2680 some didn't really have the option though. When she got married, the Nazi was not yet in full force. Her husband became a Nazi and she didn't really have a choice did she? Many German I think during that time, were the silent majority that was swept into the mess and have no option

I'd like to remind you they were nazis

The Royal family certainly dont make a distinction between ( as you called it) Commoners and Royalty far from it... If other do...its not the fault of the Royal Family.

That is because they can afford to (not) make such - but if you read my comment carefully, P S Newey, I did not state that they were the ones making same - that is your (incorrect) assumption. Monarchies are not self-appointed (unless you wish to invoke the 'Act Of Settlement' - which is how the Windsors acceded to the throne); rather, they arrive at succession by lineage, & that runs into the territory of False Paternity - or philandering with those ex parte to the Royal Family - proper.

@@andrewtongue7084 precisely!

Brittany :)

I heartily agree with you. There are ordinary, non royal people who have suffered untold tragedy and they all just get on with it. They don't have the privileges of living in palaces while they do it either.

I’m guessing that the baby was expelled after death of the mother, which is often what happens.

Rebekkka ribblet : no only P Philipp think also to fenchs in war of Algeria also my gra grand-father is death in war 1914-1918 at 28 y old

Thank's

Yes...Well many of the Aristocracy were given no choice but to become " Nazis" or be taken to prison camps.. Hitlers henchmen did that a lot... Watch The Sound of Music !! You were either with us or an enemy of the state... Also were talking now with "Hindsight" and this was before the war and at that time...The Nazi Party was a Powerful Political Party. Who aim was to restore German Pride after loosing the first world war and the overly harsh treatment on ordinary citizens inflicted by he Victors ...following that war... It doesn't mean they actually supported Hitler, and the later atrocities of Auschwitz and other "Death Camps" hadnt taken place.

P S Newey It might have happened before world war 2, but certainly not before the Spanish civil war. The Nazi Condor Legion bombed Guernica, killing hundreds of civilians, just a week before the princess joined the Nazi party.

Lmao, same people that support blm using communist imagery as well as ideals

Ok so what he acknowledged her 🙄

Really? At least he acknowledged her. She's not the United States' queen, and Americans aren't indebted by societal niceties to address her in "proper" fashion. Americans can address her how they please.

They are ignorant and irrelevant.

What does you being an American have anything to do with it though 😂😂

I agree with you. There are very nasty people. Thank God we won't spend eternity with them.

Prince Phillip achieved a lot in his lifetime but he made mistakes too he’s human after all but more importantly people who make mistakes are doing something. Only people who do nothing don’t make mistakes and that’s why they don’t grow neither are they remembered at all.

@@eleanordefreitas3755 ur prob like 60 u wont last

My thoughts as well. 😑

I agree

Nah, I reckon it was born on the plane. That would explain why the pilot was flying so low, as preumably he was looking for somewhere to make an emergency landing when he hit a factory chimney.

@@chooseyourpoison5105 - possibly, but if it was already born, what was the rush? If she was in labor, they would have been in a hurry to get her to a hospital. And it's rare that labor is short. It usually takes hours and hours and in those times, sometimes days

@@benjalucian1515 There are several reasons - the baby may have been in distress, it may have been premature, or the mother may have been bleeding out. Even today if you give birth in the back of an ambulance the paramedics still take you straight to hospital. It is also quite possible that labour was short, as it was her fourth child. Nor does labour necessarily take hours and hours, any midwife can tell you stories of babies born in mere minutes. Even Princess Alexandra's first baby was born after only two pushes and had to be delivered by a lady in waiting into a flannel petticoat.

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Everything is about Harry these days 🙄

I don't like Harry.

Exactly my thoughts! That's what I call a difficult childhood and youth, Harry!

@@sigridholzner2807 But Philip didn't have to live his childhood in full view of the entire world. Nor did he have to live knowing that his mother had been hounded to her death. Nor did he have to endure constant press harassment. As for emulating Philip, Harry fought in a war same as his grandfather did. In fact, he's done many things Philip never did, such as setting up the Sentebale charity and organising the Invictus Games, and walking to the South Pole. I suggest Philip should have learned from Harry.

Pretty sure they were political marriages for their own survival. Their family was hunted down after the Greek civil war after all.

Correct me if I'm wrong but while her husband joined, I don't think Sophie did. Besides, she was only 16 when she got married to him and he had started despising the nazis long before his death, having joined the party early only for he was offered a job in the ministry for airforce reserves and needed to adhere to the party, condition sine qua none for the German aristocracy at the time since Hitler did not trust the aristocracy for they had described him as a dangerous bouffon. Many have done the same without even knowing what the ideology was all about to protect their business and staff. It was a simple case of the party replacing everything including trade-unions, so you had to adhere to it for state jobs. You were not asked to support the ideology, just to pay the adhesion fees. A way of 1) raising funds for the government and 2) to ensure that members would then be tainted for members of the opposition, which would limit the likelihood of them being approached by the resistance. The other sister was a different matter all together, as she actively campaigned for the nazi party around the world with her husband. But did she have a choice, I wonder, considering that her husband and all his family had happily joined the nazi party and the Greek royal family was viewed with suspicion by the nazis after the war had started? She had young children, did she want to take the risk of them being hurt or taken from her and raised by the nazis? Cecilie and her husband joined it in May 1937 before anything had happened and mainly for she was under threat as a member of the Greek royal family. She died in November that same year. Who knows what she would have done, once the war had started or if she had heard of any crime carried out by the nazis?

So, many justifications for being Nazis I see why the Russians had hair triggers😭😭😭

@@auChevalierRed: in short you’re a royal cheerleader/apologist and Prince Phillip fanboy.

@@auChevalierRed ill let you in on a little secret, people who have nazis in their family, and are friends with NAZIS, are shitty people.

NO, Prince Philip was a member of the Hesse family, not Hohenzollern. Philip's maternal grandmother and Kaiser Wilhelm II were first cousins. That makes Philip and his sister Cecile first cousins twice removed to the Kaiser.

Also Princess Cecilie who was killed in the plane crash was the sister of Prince Philip and they were both grandchildren of Princess Victoria of Hesse, the oldest child of Princess Alice of Hesse and by Rhine, who was Queen Victoria's second daughter. Princess Alice also had one son who lived to adulthood Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine so Louis and Princess Victoria were brother and sister. Louis's son George happened to be the husband of Princess Cecilie, Prince Philip's sister when they were both killed in the plane crash. So through Princess Cecilie, Prince Philip's sister, their grandmother Princess Victoria of Hesse and her brother Prince Louis they both shared the same grandchildren. Prince Louis himself died one year later after the plane crash. I guess he was heartbroken himself because he lost his wife and son in the crash. I know this comment may be a little complicated but I also love how intertwined these royal relationships can be. So the new King Charles III of England and his son Prince William are direct descendants of Princess Alice, Queen Victoria's second daughter.

Yes, it's both good and bad.

Ma’am. You’re literally complaining

All they do is complain. They protested, they fought, & they changed the world. Yet so many are against us doing the same for our generations.

Well said

No ! The complaining especially from Markle is disgusting !

Elizabeth- I think I'm related to the Greek royals. I so wish I could somehow speak with you!

@@brittanybalentine9864 what??

@john albert. Hmmm... of course your comment made me very curious-especially as I truly admired her star crown in the pic! Are you referring to the jewels she was traveling with or the ones left at home? Does seem as though jewels left at home weren’t safe either as so many family members were together on the plane...

You don't know the story well enough, obviously, because Johanna only died in 1939. She never made it to 8 years old. She died less than two years after the plane crash. She wasn't even three years old when she died. Yes, Margaret Geddes and Prince Ludwig/Louis were the ones who adopted her.

@pa newly @p stevens Thank you both for the story.

@@alphabet_soup123 Ouch, Forgive me for getting it so very wrong !

If adoption was acceptable then, why can’t Harry and his wife admit to surrogate babes? Such woosey whiners who choose to live a lie! No wonder Prince Philip was appalled in his dying days.

wow its as if harry himself has never went through anything omg😱😱😱😨😨😨😨😨 lmao his mother got killed when he was a small child, just because he is royalty doesn’t mean that he always has to be professional, i understand him.

And even if she die trying to see him, no one would be to blame. She would have hold on to her life to see him.

atleast he met his beloved wife and she gave him the happiness his childhood denied him I pray he is with his sister

Are nazis not people? Just because your beliefs are wrong, doesn't mean you leave the human race.

this is not about Nazi's she was a human as her children were and her brother have some respect Phillip fought the Nazis

He wouldn't have made it to his 99th birthday

@@Wayne_155 and the british royal family would have been completely different

They have no class.

@@rosean374 you know it

@@rosean374 no that is you who has no class Harry is a human being and Phillip adored him

@@aprilgosa5779 Anyone raised properly does not air family matters publicly for money.

Hello Helen... how are you doing today.

No she doesn’t and that is a weird comment

Nazis were never defeated. They just changed their names.

Manni.. I fail to see how your comment holds up...Phillip was Stateless & Penniless... He had some German blood in his veins. Phillip was def NOT the choice both the King and Queen had for the young Princess as her Husband...

Yes always in my family

It was quite popular in its day.

She would have been married off. Probably didnt have much say in the matter as she was only 16 and onto her 5th pregnancy by the age 26. Really tragic for her children and the newborn baby to die like that.

and how would anyone be "ok with murdering millions of people" many years BEFORE the war started and even more years before the holocaust started? by god you people are stupid..

Then I suppose by your statement you are against our own government and the military industrial complex and the elitist all over the world 🤷

Then you're not thinking very hard

If you feel like bawling your eyes out over a dead Nazi, be my guest..

@@lasselippert3892 were the children who died also nazis? It was a different world back then. A wife had to do as her husband told her. Dont be so sure everything is as it appears.

They lived in a dictatorship where there was no such thing as freedom of choice.

Gaynor Only about 10% of the German population actually joined the Nazi party

LBJ and the Mafia...

No, that means she is a schizo!

@ bin Ramiro freeland. Sad to me when any children die.

Yeah