Wednesday 5 August 2009

Great-granddaughter of last German emperor dies

Princess Felicitas von Preussen, the great-granddaughter of the last German emperor, has died, her family said Tuesday. She was 75.

Von Preussen died Saturday in Wohltorf, near Hamburg.

Von Preussen was born in 1934 in Bonn to Prince Wilhelm von Preussen and his wife, Dorothea von Salviati.

Wilhelm was the son of Crown Prince Wilhelm, the heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German emperor. Wilhelm II went into exile in the Netherlands after the fall of the monarchy in 1918 following World War I.

Von Preussen was married twice and had five children. She was to be buried in Aumuehle, near Hamburg.

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