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Princess Christina of Hesse was born on 10 January, 1933 in Kronberg im Taunus, Weimar Republic, is a German princess. Discover Princess Christina of Hesse's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January 1933
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace Kronberg im Taunus, Weimar Republic
Date of death 22 November, 2011
Died Place Gersau, Switzerland
Nationality United Kingdom

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Who Is Princess Christina of Hesse's Wife?

His wife is Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (m. 1956-1962) Robert Floris van Eyck (m. 1962-1986)

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Princess Christina of Hesse Net Worth

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1918

Christina belonged by birth to the senior line of the House of Hesse, a junior branch of which reigned as grand dukes of Hesse and by Rhine within the German Empire until 1918.

Christina's paternal grandmother, Princess Margaret of Prussia, was a daughter of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter Victoria, and as such a sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Prince Christoph, a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), held important positions in Germany's Nazi regime.

During World War II, he was a major in the Luftwaffe.

1930

Her first husband Prince Andrew also married for the second time, this time to another cousin, Princess Kira Melita zu Leiningen (1930-2006).

1933

Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (Christina Margarethe Prinzessin von Hessen; 10 January 1933 – 22 November 2011) was a German princess.

Born in Germany on 10 January 1933 at Friedrichshof Castle near Kronberg im Taunus, Princess Christina ("Krista") of Hesse was the eldest child of Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901 — 1943) and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914 — 2001) Her father, Prince Christoph of Hesse, was a nephew of Germany's last emperor Wilhelm II.

Her mother, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, was a grand-daughter of King George I of Greece and a sister of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

1934

From her mother's two marriages, Christina had four siblings and three half-siblings: Princess Dorothea of Hesse (born 1934), Prince Karl of Hesse (1937-2022), Prince Rainer of Hesse (born 1939), Princess Clarissa of Hesse (born 1944), Prince Welf of Hanover (1947-1981), Prince Georg of Hanover (born 1949) and Princess Friederike of Hanover (born 1954).

Her childhood homes included her paternal grandmother's palace of Friedrichshof in Taunus, a family castle at Panker in Holstein, and her parents' residence in Berlin-Dahlem.

1943

On 7 October 1943, when Christina was ten years old, her father was killed in an airplane crash in the Apennine mountains near Forlì, Italy.

1946

His widow married Prince George William of Hanover in 1946.

1953

Christina participated in the 1953 coronation of her aunt at Westminster Abbey, walking in the procession led by her maternal grandmother, Princess Alice.

1955

Christina and her cousin Princess Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg spent the winter of 1955-1956 living in London, where Christina studied the restoration of paintings under Anthony Blunt.

It was reported that the princesses' closest friend in England was Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia.

They had met him the previous year in Portugal, and he thought they were lonely in London.

1956

A first cousin of King Charles III of the United Kingdom, she was the wife, from 1956 to 1962, of Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, a son of Alexander I of Yugoslavia.

Princess Christina of Hesse married Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, the youngest son of Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Princess Maria of Romania, on 2 August 1956, at Friedrichshof Castle.

They had two children:

Soon after their marriage, Princess Christina and her first husband had purchased The Hollands, a commercial farm at Langton Green in Kent, England, which did not prove a profitable venture.

Moving to London, Prince Andrew supported his family by working for an import/export business and, later, as a bank executive.

1961

In 1961 Christina left her husband to live with an abstract artist from the Netherlands, Robert Floris van Eyck.

1962

Andrew initiated a divorce, and obtained custody of the couple's two children when dissolution of the marriage became final on 31 May 1962.

Following her divorce, Christina married Robert van Eyck on 3 December 1962 in London.

Of Sephardic extraction, Robert van Eyck was the son of poet, critic, essayist and philosopher Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck, and the brother of architect Aldo van Eyck.

1963

The couple had two children, Helen Sophia van Eyck (born 1963) and Mark Nicholas van Eyck (born 1966).

1986

Christina and Robert van Eyck separated in 1985, and divorced 3 February 1986.

In addition to Germany and England, Princess Christina of Hesse had lived in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, and in Gersau, Switzerland.