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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Georg Donatus's Funeral

Tuesday Nov 16, 1937
Darmstadt, Germany

In 1937, Philip's sister Cecilie, her husband Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, her two young sons, Ludwig and Alexander, her newborn infant, and her mother-in-law, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, were killed in an air crash at Ostend; Philip, then 16 years old, attended the funeral in Darmstadt.


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