Monday, August 27, 2018

Princess Dorothea to marry


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August 27, 1958

According to a Reuters dispatch, Princess Dorothea of Hesse, a niece of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is engaged to marry Prince Friedrich of Windisch-Graetz.

 Princess Dorothea, 24, recently worked in a London antique shop.  She is the second of five children of the late Prince Christoph of Hesse, who was killed in an air crash during the Second World War in 1943, and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, the youngest of Prince Philip's four older sisters.

Prince Friedrich of Windisch-Graetz, who is 41 years old, is the fourth and youngest child of Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz, and Princess Leontine of Fürstenberg.

No date for the wedding has been announced.


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