Princess Marie Cécile of Prussia

Princess Marie-Cécile of Prussia ("Marie-Cécile Kira Viktoria Luise"), (b. May 28, 1942 at Cadinen, Kreis Elbing), is the second daughter of Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia and his wife, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia.

She is the first wife of Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg. They married in Berlin in a civil ceremony on 3 December, 1965 and a religious ceremony the following day. They divorced in 1989. Her husband later remmaried Countess Donata of Castell-Rüdenhausen, the wife of Marie-Cécile's desceased brother, Prince Louis Ferdinand II of Prussia. Friedrich August and Marie-Cécile had three children:

*HH Duke "Paul-Wladimir" Nikolaus Louis-Ferdinand Peter Max Karl-Emich of Oldenburg, born 16 August, 1969 in Lübeck. He married Maria del Pilar Méndez de Vigo y Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (b. 20 October, 1970 in Madrid, the granddaughter of Karl, 8th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg) in a civil ceremony on 18 January, 2001 in Wertheim, and a religious ceremony on 20 January, 2001 in Bronnbach an der Tauber. They have three sons and one daughter:
**HH Duke "Kirill" Friedrich-August Jaime Cristobal Hermann Antonius Vincenz Josef Maria of Oldenburg, born13 June, 2002 in Berlin
**HH Duke "Carlos" Jakobus Leo Wilfried Josef Maria of Oldenburg, born 19 April, 2004 in Eutin
**HH Duke "Paul" Marie of Oldenburg, born 8 September, 2005.
**HH Duchess Maria Assunta of Oldenburg, born 21 March, 2007.
*HH Duchess "Rixa" Marie-Alix Kira Altburg of Oldenburg, born 17 September, 1970 at Lübeck
*HH Duchess "Bibiane" Marie Alexandra Gertrud of Oldenburg, born 24 June, 1974 at Oldenburg. She married Peter Dorner (b. 19 February, 1972 at Wasserburg am Inn) in Merano on 22 May, 2004

Marie-Cécile is in the line of succession to the British throne. Her son, and her son's children, as Catholics, are not, and so her elder daughter, Rixa, follows her in line.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Marie Cécile of Prussia
2= 2. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia
3= 3. Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia
4= 4. William, German Crown Prince
5= 5. Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
6= 6. Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia
7= 7. Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
8= 8. William II, German Emperor
9= 9. Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
10= 10. Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
11= 11. Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia
12= 12. Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia
13= 13. Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
14= 14. Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
15= 15. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
16= 16. Frederick III, German Emperor
17= 17. Victoria, Princess Royal
18= 18. Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
19= 19. Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
20= 20. Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
21= 21. Princess Auguste Reuss of Köstritz
22= 22. Grand Duke Michael Nicolaevich of Russia
23= 23. Princess Cecilie of Baden
24= 24. Alexander II of Russia
25= 25. Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
26= 26. Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (= 20)
27= 27. Princess Auguste Reuss of Köstritz (= 21)
28= 28. Albert, Prince Consort
29= 29. Victoria of the United Kingdom
30= 30. Alexander II of Russia (= 24)
31= 31. Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (= 25)

References

* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/oldenburg.html Paul Theroff's Online Gotha]