Everything about Georg Donatus Hereditary Grand Duke Of Hesse totally explained
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (
Georg Donatus Wilhelm Nikolaus Eduard Heinrich Karl,
8 November,
1906-
16 November,
1937) was the first child of
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and
Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich.
Marriage and Children
On
2 February 1931 at
Darmstadt Georg married
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, daughter of
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and
Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of
Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert. They had four children:
On
May 1 1937 Georg and Cecilie both joined the
Nazi Party.
Death
In October 1937, Georg Donatus' father,
Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse died. A few weeks after the funeral, Ernst Ludwig's younger son,
Prince Louis was due to be married to Margaret Geddes. On 16 November 1937, Georg Donatus, Cecilie, their two young sons, Georg's mother Grand Duchess Eleonore, the children's nurse, a family friend, a pilot and two crewmen, left
Darmstadt for the
United Kingdom, where Prince Ludwig was due to be married. The aeroplane hit a factory chimney near
Ostend and crashed into flames, killing all those on board. Cecilie was heavily
pregnant with her fourth child at the time of the
crash, and the remains of the fetus were found in the wreckage, indicating that Cecilie had gone into labour. The only survivor of the family was Johanna; she wasn't on the plane at the time. Johanna was adopted by Prince Louis and Princess Margaret, however, she died in 1939 from
meningitis.
Titles
- His Royal Highness The Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Georg Donatus never acceded to the grand ducal throne as it had been abolished at the end of the First World War. Titles became surnames after that point and it was rare for the head of a royal, grand ducal or ducal family to change his title upon accession as head of a house.
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