Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1886

Place of Birth: Schwerin, Schwerin District, Germany

Date of Death: 06-May-1954

Profession: writer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Cecilie Auguste Marie; 20 September 1886 – 6 May 1954) was the last German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia as the wife of German Crown Prince Wilhelm, the son of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Cecilie was a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia.
She was brought up with simplicity and her early life was peripatetic, spending summers in Mecklenburg and the rest of the year in the south of France.
After the death of her father, she traveled every summer between 1898 and 1904 to her mother's native Russia.
On 6 June 1905, she married German Crown Prince Wilhelm.
The couple had four sons and two daughters.
Cecile, tall and statuesque, became popular in Germany for her sense of style.
However, her husband was a womanizer and the marriage was unhappy. After the fall of the German monarchy, at the end of World War I, Cecile and her husband lived mostly apart.
During the Weimar Republic and the Nazi period, Cecilie lived a private life mainly at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam.
With the advance of the Soviet troops, she left the Cecilienhof in February 1945, never to return.
She settled in Bad Kissingen until 1952 when she moved to an apartment in the Frauenkopf district of Stuttgart.
In 1952, she published a book of memoirs.
She died two years later.



Description	Hungarian painter portraits of royal and aristocratic personages
Date of birth/death	30 April 1869	22 November 1937
Location of birth/death	Budapest, Hungary	London, United Kingdom
Work location	Budapest (1885–1889); Munich (1889–1890); Paris (1890–1891); Munich (1891–1892); Budapest (1892–March 1900); Budapest (1900–1903); Rome (March 1900–1900); Vienna (1903–1907); London (1907–1937)
Authority control	: Q704208 VIAF: 15508935 ISNI: 0000 0000 1045 0882 ULAN: 500023836 LCCN: no2004037532 Open Library: OL6453886A WorldCat