Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark
Margarita of Greece and Denmark | |
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Princess consort of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | |
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Born | Old Royal Palace, Athens, Greece | 18 April 1905
Died | 24 April 1981 Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, Germany | (aged 76)
Burial | 30 April 1981 , Germany |
Spouse | |
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House | Glücksburg |
Father | Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark |
Mother | Princess Alice of Battenberg |
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (
The eldest daughter of
At the end of the 1920s, Margarita's mother had a mental health crisis which led to her confinement in a Swiss psychiatric hospital. Shortly after, in 1931, Margarita married
Affected by the
Biography
Childhood
In Greece and abroad
The eldest daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, Margarita was born at the Royal Palace in Athens on 18 April 1905.[1][2] Through her mother, Margarita was the eldest great-great grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Contrary to the custom of the time, her father attended her birth because her grandmother, Queen Olga, believed that "it is only justice that men see the suffering they cause to their wives, and from which they completely escape".[1] Baptized on 11 May in the presence of her maternal grandparents,[1] Margarita grew up surrounded by her father's animals,[3] and within a united household,[4] which rapidly expanded with the arrival of her sisters Theodora (1906–1969),[5][6] Cecilie (1911–1937),[7][8] and Sophie (1914–2001).[9] With their mother, Margarita and her sisters communicated in English, but they also used French, German, and Greek in the presence of their relatives and governesses.[10] The princesses were formally educated in English and Greek.[11]
Margarita's early childhood was marked by the instability that the
In 1909, the Goudi coup occurred, a military putsch organized against the government of King George I of Greece, Margarita's grandfather.[20] Shortly after this event, Prince Andrew and his brothers were forced to resign from the army.[21] Concerned about the political situation of their country, Andrew and Alice once again found refuge abroad and stayed in the United Kingdom, France and Hesse.[22] After considering a life in exile for a while, the couple returned to live in Greece, where their third daughter was born.[8]
The Balkan Wars and the First World War
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Between 1912 and 1913, Greece engaged in the
When peace returned, Andrew, Alice and their daughters left Greece in August 1913. After a visit to Germany, they stayed in the United Kingdom, with Margarita's maternal grandparents. For little princesses, this trip was an opportunity to visit
Things changed as war creeped into the life of the country's people.[39] Stationed in Thessaloniki with his garrison, Andrew was thus confronted with the occupation of the city by the Allies in October 1915.[40][41] Shortly after, in December, the routed Serbian army found refuge in Corfu,[42] leading Alice and her daughters to abandon Mon Repos for the capital.[43] Over the months, the amount of threats against members of the royal dynasty increased.[44] In July 1916, an arson attacked the domain of Tatoi, while the king was there with his wife and several of their children.[44][45][46] In addition, on 1 December, the French navy bombarded the royal palace in Athens, forcing Margarita and her sisters to take refuge in the cellars with their mother.[47][48][49]
Exile in Switzerland
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In June 1917, King Constantine I was finally deposed and driven out of Greece by the Allies, who replaced him on the throne by his second son, the young Alexander.[50][51] Fifteen days later, Margarita's family was in turn forced into exile in order to remove the possibility of the new monarch being influenced by those close to him.[52][53] Forced to reside in German-speaking Switzerland, the small group first stayed in a hotel in St. Moritz,[54][55] before settling in Lucerne,[56] where they lived with uncertainty about their future.[57]
Exile was not the only source of concern for the family, however.
At the beginning of 1919, Margarita nevertheless had the joy of reuniting with her paternal grandmother, the Dowager Queen Olga, spared by the Bolsheviks thanks to the diplomatic intervention of the Danes.[61][62][63] In the months that followed, she reconnected, moreover, with her maternal grandparents,[64] whom the war forced to abandon the name of Battenberg for that of Mountbatten.[65] For Margarita, who now formed a duo with her younger sister Theodora,[66] exile was not only synonymous with nostalgia;[N 1][67] it was also an opportunity for long family reunions and walks in the mountains.[68]
Young adulthood
Brief return to Greece
On 2 October 1920, King Alexander, cousin of Margarita, was bitten by a domestic monkey during a walk in Tatoi. Poorly cared for, he contracted sepsis, which prevailed on 25 October, without any member of his family being allowed to come to his bedside.[69][70] The death of the sovereign caused a violent institutional crisis in Greece. Already stuck, since 1919, in a new war against Turkey, Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos lost the 1920 Greek legislative election. Humiliated, he retired abroad while a referendum reinstalled Constantine I on the throne.[71]
Prince Andrew was received triumphantly in Athens on 23 November 1920, and his wife and four daughters joined him a few days later.[72] Margarita then returned to live in Corfu with her family. At the same time, Princess Alice found out that she was pregnant again.[73] On 10 June 1921, the family welcomed Philip (1921–2021), the future Duke of Edinburgh.[74] The joy that surrounded this birth, however, was obscured by the absence of Prince Andrew, who joined the Greek forces in Asia Minor during the Occupation of Smyrna.[75] Despite worries about the war, Margarita and her siblings enjoyed life at Mon Repos, where they received a visit from their maternal grandmother and their aunt Louise in the spring of 1922.[76] In the park near the palace, built on an ancient cemetery, the princesses devoted themselves to archeology and discovered some pottery, bronze pieces and bones.[77]
During this period, Margarita and her sisters also participated, for the first time, in a number of great social events. In March 1921, the princesses attended in Athens the wedding of their cousin
However, the military defeat of Greece against Turkey and the political unrest that it caused disrupted the life of Margarita and her family. In September 1922, Constantine I abdicated in favor of his eldest son, George II.[80][81] A month later, Prince Andrew was arrested before being tried by a military tribunal, which declared him responsible for the defeat of the Sakarya. Saved from execution by the intervention of foreign chancelleries, the prince was condemned to banishment and cashiering. After a brief stop in Corfu,[82] the prince and his relatives hurriedly left Greece aboard HMS Calypso in early December 1922.[83][84][85]
Marriage prospects
After a journey of several weeks, which led them successively to Italy, France and the United Kingdom,
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Deprived of their Greek nationality after the
During the summer of 1926, Margarita met Prince François-Ferdinand d'Isembourg-Birstein, eldest son of Prince François-Joseph d'Isembourg-Birstein, during a stay in Tarasp with her great-uncle Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. The two young people enjoyed each other's company and their families met at the beginning of the following year. Margarita was enchanted by her suitor and by the region where he lived. However, François-Ferdinand was of the Catholic faith and the princess refused to give up Orthodox faith, which soon put an end to their romance.[98][109] Thus, by 1930, neither Margarita nor Theodora had yet found a fiancé.[110] This did not prevent them from rejoicing for their aunt Louise when she was asked by Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, to marry him in June 1923.[111]
Alice's confinement
Margarita, Theodora and Philip spent the summer of 1928 in Romania. Invited by Princess Helen, whose son Michael I was the same age as Philip, the two young women and their brother stayed for several weeks in Sinaia.[112][113] At the time, Prince Nicholas of Romania was still single and Helen would like to see him marry one of her relatives, but her plans for her brother-in-law to marry one of her cousins came to nothing.[114]
A few months after this trip, Alice allegedly began to suffer from psychological problems. Struck by a mental health crisis, the prince said that the princess convinced herself she possessed healing powers and that she was receiving divine messages about potential husbands for her daughters. She then took herself for a saint and soon declared herself the bride of Jesus.[115] Prince Andrew finally made the decision to place his wife in a sanatorium, with the agreement of his mother-in-law, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven.[116] During his family's stay in Darmstadt, Germany, in April 1930, he sent Alice to a psychiatric hospital located in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.[117]
While their family disintegrated, their father took advantage of the situation to abandon their home in Saint-Cloud and to settle at the French Riviera with his mistress.[10][118][119][120] Margarita's two youngest sisters were married successively to German princes.[10][121][122] Sophie married Prince Christoph of Hesse in December 1930,[123] followed by Cecilie who married Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse in February 1931.[124] After years of celibacy, Margarita and Theodora were quick to marry in their turn.[122]
Settling in Germany and stays abroad
Family life and adherence to Nazism
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In 1930, Margarita was 25 when she met Gottfried ("Friedel"), hereditary prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who like her descended from Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.[98][125] Coming from the House of Hohenlohe, whose states were publicized at the beginning of the 19th century, the prince was heir to a fortune made up of castles, farmland and forests.[126] Margarita and Gottfried fell in love and married on 20 April 1931.[N 3] Organized at Langenburg Castle, their wedding consisted of a double religious ceremony, both Lutheran and Orthodox.[127] The occasion was a large family reunion, at which Margarita's mother Alice was not present.[125] Among the many guests were the Dowager Queen Marie of Romania and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia (aunts of the groom) as well as Prince George of Greece and Denmark and Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden (uncle and aunt of the bride).[128]
Once their marriage was celebrated, Margarita and Gottfried settled at
When she was not taking care of those close to her, Margarita was involved in charitable works, which soon earned her the admiration of the inhabitants of the former principality of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.[129] Like several members of her entourage,[N 4][137] Margarita joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1937 at the same time as her husband.[138][139] Thereafter, the couple used their family connections to promote the rapprochement of the Nazi regime in the United Kingdom.[140][141] Enlisted in the Wehrmacht, Gottfried participated in the Anschluss in 1938.[142]
Gloria Vanderbilt affair
In October 1934, Gottfried and Margarita visited New York to testify in favor of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt in the lawsuit involving her and her in-laws for the custody of her daughter Gloria Vanderbilt.[143][144][145]
A few years before his marriage to Margarita, Gottfried had an affair with the wealthy American widow, whom he even almost married with the blessing of his parents.[143][146][147] For her part, Margarita visited Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt at her aunt Nadejda Mountbatten's place.[148] However, the in-laws of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt accused her of having abandoned her daughter by leading a dissolute life with Gottfried in Europe. Margarita further suspected the young woman of having a romantic relationship with Nadejda.[143] Margarita therefore had interest in restoring the honor of her family by participating in the trial with her husband.[149][150]
In spite of the testimonies of the Prince and the Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who assured the good morality of their friend in front of the press[146] and in court,[151] Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt lost the lawsuit. Her daughter was then placed in the care of her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, until she came of age.[152] Gottfried and Margarita left the United States in early November to attend the wedding of Marina, cousin of the princess, and the Duke of Kent in London.[153]
Travel to Greece
While Germany sank into dictatorship from 1933, the Hellenic Republic was overthrown by General Kondylis in October 1935. A month later, King George II, Margarita's cousin, was reinstalled on the throne after a referendum.[154][155][156]
At the beginning of 1936, the banishment sentence issued in 1922 against Margarita's father Prince Andrew was lifted, which allowed him to stay in his country again.[157][158] A regular target for the Hellenic press, the prince however chose to stay abroad for most of the year.[159] Estranged from her husband since her confinement, Princess Alice made the choice to return and live in Athens, where she settled in November 1938.[160]
In the meantime, Margarita also returned to Greece with Gottfried on the occasion of the marriage of Crown Prince Paul to Princess Frederica of Hanover in January 1938.[161][162][163]
Second World War and subsequent events
Family torn apart by war
The outbreak of the
Margarita spent the duration of the conflict with her children in Langenburg, a small town far from the zones of combat and where the family did not suffer much deprivation.[173][174][175] There, she gave birth to twins, Rupprecht and Albrecht, on 7 April 1944.[176] Gottfried's journey during this period was much more nebulous. According to the Spanish biographer Ricardo Mateos Sainz de Medrano, the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was wounded during the Battle of Amiens and he spent the remainder of the conflict with his family in Langenburg.[173] However, according to British biographer Hugo Vickers, Gottfried was only a reserve officer at this time and he spent the summer of 1940 in Bohemia with his wife.[164] A rumor was subsequently spread by the English press, but later denied by all historians, asserting that Gottfried spent the war on the Eastern Front, where he was wounded, until his dismissal from the army in 1944 because of his participation in the assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler,[177][178] This supposed participation has not been attested by any specialists in the subject.[N 5] More credible is therefore the version given by the Hohenloher Tagblatt in an article devoted to the prince in 2010. Seriously wounded on the Eastern Front, where he commanded a reconnaissance unit until 1944, Gottfried was dismissed from the army at the continuation of the decree banning people of royal descent from serving in the army. Back in Langenburg, the prince transformed the family castle into a hospital, before welcoming refugees there.[179]
The war period brought its share of mourning for Margarita's family. In April 1942, her mother-in-law, the Dowager Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, died in Schwäbisch Hall after a long illness. A little over a year later, in October 1943, Prince Christoph, husband Margarita's sister Sophie, was killed in a plane crash while flying over the Apennine Mountains.[180][181][182] Finally, in December 1944, her father Prince Andrew died in Monaco without having been able to see his children again.[183][184][185]
Post-war years
The defeat of Germany and its occupation by the Allies brought new upheavals in the life of the former German princely families, several of whom (such as Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, or Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen) perished in hands of the Soviets.[186] When the war ended, Margarita and her family found themselves in the American-occupied part of Germany, so their lives were not under threat.[187][N 6] Gottfried was quickly appointed provisional administrator of the district of Crailsheim.[179]
After peace was restored, the revelation of the war crimes of the Wehrmacht and their role in the Holocaust—brought to light during the Nuremberg trials—had serious repercussions on the relationship between the Hohenlohe-Langenburgs and their foreign relatives. Despite her own Germanic origins, Princess Alice of Battenberg thus developed a deep disgust for the German people and refused, until 1949, to return to stay in her daughters' country.[188] For his part, Prince Philip (officially renamed Philip Mountbatten in 1947)[189][190][191] found himself unable to invite his sisters on the occasion of his marriage to Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom because of anti-German sentiment prevailing in Great Britain after the war.[192][193][194][195]
Aware of the difficulties their brother had to face, Margarita, Theodora and Sophie considered their sidelining wrong and hurtful. They felt snubbed when they realized that their cousins, the
Return to normal life
Reintegration into royal circles
In March 1948, Margarita and her three elder children were invited to Athens by Princess Alice, who offered them the trip thanks to the pension that the
The Greek royal family was not the only royal house to show its desire to reconnect with the Hohenlohe-Langenburgs. In 1950, Margarita was allowed to return to the United Kingdom on the occasion of the funeral of her grandmother, the
In the 1950s, Margarita and her husband also visited Spain on several occasions. There they found various members of Gottfried's relatives: Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and her husband Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera (maternal aunt and uncle of the prince), Princess Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (sister of the prince), as well as Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Ira von Fürstenberg (distant cousins of the prince).[213]
Life in Langenburg
In December 1950,
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Beginning in the 1930s, Margarita gained a lot of weight, which was of concern to those close to her.
In January 1963, a fire broke out in Langenburg Castle. There were no casualties but the private apartments of the princess and many of her personal objects were destroyed.[213] The damage to the building was considerable and forced Prince Kraft to sell Weikersheim Castle in 1967 to finance the renovation work.[218] This does not prevent the Hohenlohe-Langenburgs from receiving Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in their castle during their official trip to West Germany in 1965.[219][220]
For Margarita, the 1960s saw the marriages of two of her children. In 1965, Prince Kraft married Princess Charlotte von Croÿ. Then, in 1969, Prince Georg Andreas married Princess Luise von Schönburg-Waldenburg.[217] The engagement of Princess Beatrix to her nephew Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, son of Princess Theodora, on the other hand broke off in 1961 and the princess remained unmarried all her life.[221] This event did not prevent Margarita from remaining close to her sister until her death in October 1969.[222] Devastated by the loss of her younger sister, who was only one year younger than her, Margarita also lost her mother Alice two months later.[223]
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Final years
Margarita's son Albrecht married Maria Hildegard-Fischer in 1976.[217] His twin brother, Rupprecht, took his own life in 1978.[N 7][129]
Margarita died on 24 April 1981 in a clinic in Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, six days after her 76th birthday.[217] Attended by her brother the Duke of Edinburgh, her funeral took place in Langenburg,[217] where she was buried alongside her husband.[224]
Archives
Princess Margarita's personal papers (including family correspondence and photographs) are preserved in the Hohenlohe-Langenburg family archive (Nachlass Fürstin Margarita, HZAN La 148), which is in the Hohenlohe Central Archive (Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein) in Neuenstein Castle in the town of Neuenstein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.[225]
Honours
House of Glücksburg-Greece: Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Saints Olga and Sophia
- Royal Order of Beneficence
House of Glücksburg-Greece: Knight of the Royal Decoration of the Greek Royal House, 2nd Class
House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg: Knight Grand Cross of the Princely House Order of the Phoenix
United Kingdom: Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
Ancestry
Ancestors of Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark Countess Julia Hauke | |||||||||||||
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3. Princess Alice of Battenberg | |||||||||||||
14. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse | |||||||||||||
7. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine | |||||||||||||
15. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom | |||||||||||||
Notes and references
Notes
- Louis Mountbatten, the princess describes in particular how much she misses the Mediterranean Sea, and how tired she is of Swiss "little lakes".(Vickers 2000, p. 142)
- ^ It seems that Alice's efforts to marry her daughters began in the early 1920s. At that time, the princess was planning to match one of her elder daughters with the wealthy William B. Leeds Jr, son of her sister-in-law Princess Anastasia from her previous marriage, though without success.(Mateos Sainz de Medrano 2004, pp. 283–284)
- ^ This date corresponded to the 35th wedding anniversary of Gottfrie's parents (Zeepvat 1993, p. 261).
- Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (her sisters-in-law) as well as Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (her brothers-in-law) also joined the party on the same day (Petropoulos 2006, pp. 382, 386) Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (her father-in-law) and Prince Christoph of Hesse (another brother-in-law) have already been members since 1936 and 1931, respectively (Petropoulos 2006, pp. 381, 382).
- ^ Historian Jonathan Petropoulos did not identify any individual of royal blood among the conspirators of 1944.(Petropoulos 2006, p. 277)
- Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip in the event of a Soviet invasion of West Germany. See Fenton, Ben (9 May 2006). "How Britain planned to rescue 'royal relatives'". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Prince Albrecht also committed suicide in 1992 (Beéche & Miller 2020, p. 164).
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