Name Robert van Role Poet | Died December 19, 1991 Parents Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck | |
Robert Floris van Eyck or van Eijk (3 May 1916 – 19 December 1991), was a London poet, artist and art restorer.
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Family
He was born in The Hague as the son of poet, critic, essayist and philosopher Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck and wife Nelly Estelle Benjamins, a woman of Jewish and Latin origin born and raised in Suriname.
In March 1918, his brother Aldo van Eyck, later a famous architect, was born in Driebergen. In 1919, his family moved to London where his father was a correspondent for the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant. Van Eyk was educated in England (at Sidcot School in Somerset) during his youth.
Marriage and children
He married as her second husband in London, Greater London, on 3 December 1962 and divorced in 1986 Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (b. Kronberg im Taunus, 10 January 1933 – 21 November 2011), married firstly in Kronberg im Taunus on 2 August 1956 and divorced in London in 1962 from her first husband, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (Bled, Kingdom of Yugoslavia), 28 June 1929 - Irvine, Orange County, California, 7 May 1990), daughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse and wife Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, and had issue: