House Hohenzollern | Name Princess Cecile | |
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Born 28 May 1942 (age 81)
Cadinen, Kreis Elbing ( 1942-05-28 ) Spouse Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg (m. 1965; div. 1989) Issue Duke Paul-Wladimir
Duchess Rixas
Duchess Bibiane Father Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Mother Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia | ||
Princess Marie-Cécile of Prussia (Marie-Cécile Kira Viktoria Luise; born 28 May 1942 in Cadinen, Kreis Elbing) is the daughter of Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, and his wife, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia. Her paternal grandparents were William, German Crown Prince, and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; maternally, she is a granddaughter of Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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Marriage and children
In 1965 Princess Marie-Cécile married Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg, who was working as an agricultural expert. They married in Berlin in a civil ceremony on 3 December 1965 and a religious ceremony the following day. Theirs was the first Hohenzollern marriage in Berlin since 1913.
Friedrich August and Marie-Cécile have three children, a son and two daughters:
Marie-Cécile and Friedrich August divorced on 23 November 1989. In 1991 her ex-husband remarried Donata Countess of Castell-Rüdenhausen, the widow of Marie-Cécile's late brother, Prince Louis Ferdinand.
British succession
Marie-Cécile is in the line of succession to the British throne. As Catholics, her son and his children are not — and so her elder daughter, Rixa, follows her in the British line of succession, followed by her other daughter, Bibiane.