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occupation. Princess Margaret's son Wolfgang, fearing for the jewels, had buried them in a sub-cellar of the castle. On 5 November 1945, the manager of the club, Captain Kathleen Nash, discovered the jewels and together with her future husband, Colonel Jack Durant, and Major David Watson, stole the treasure and took it out of Germany. In early 1946, Princess Margaret discovered the theft when the family wanted to use the jewels for the wedding of
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nephew. The priest refused to identify the grave until the Germans had left Belgium and a compensation was paid. Max's younger brother Wolfgang appealed for help to the British authorities, and eventually, after an enquiry was made, Maximilian's body was returned to his family. Princess Margaret's
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They were second cousins, both great-grandchildren of King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, he through his mother Anna, she through her father Friedrich. Initially, her brother Wilhelm opposed the match as he felt that Frederick Charles's position was too "minor" for the Kaiser's sister. Later,
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Landgravine Margaret had difficult years after 1945; they were compounded by the theft from Schloss Friedrichshof in November 1945 of the family jewellery, valued at over £2,000,000. After World War II, Friedrichshof was used as an officer's club by the military authorities during the American
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however, he gave his blessing, since Margaret herself "was so unimportant". The marriage was very happy. Princess Margaret had a strong personality; she would always seem more secure and grounded than her husband. The couple's main residence during the early years of marriage was
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who was preparing to remarry. Princess Sophia and Landgravine Margaret reported it to the Frankfurt authorities, and the culprits were imprisoned in August 1951. The Hesse family received what had been recovered: only 10 percent of what had been stolen.
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at the death of her mother. It was highly unconventional for a husband to reside in his wife's home. However, Margaret was committed to maintain the house of her mother which entailed a great expense and the family moved to Friedrichshof.
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when he was seriously wounded by machine gun fire in October 1914. He died soon afterward and his body was secretly buried in the village of Caestre by the local people, who learned he was the
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When he realised the reality of Nazism, he tried to resign, but he was not able to do so. He used his position and his money to provide passports for Jews and help them to escape to the
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on 29–30 January 1944. The cellar in which they had taken refuge collapsed under the weight of the building, rendering Marie Alexandra's body barely recognisable.
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Margaret's personal papers (including family correspondence) are preserved in the Archive of the House of Hesse, which is kept in Fasanerie Palace in
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Her two other sons, Philipp and Christoph, embraced Nazism, and Margaret, who was the sister of the last Kaiser Wilhelm II, invited
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on 22 January 1954, 14 years after her husband and exactly 53 years to the day after her British grandmother
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Landgravine Margaret and her husband Frederick Charles of Hesse had six sons, including two sets of twins:
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Margaret, very much the matriarch, was at the centre of her large and dynamic family. During and after
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and Landgravine of Hesse. The couple had six sons and lost three of them in wartime, two during the
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Margaret's fifth son, Christoph, was a staunch supporter of the German war effort, but after the
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Princess Margaret grew up amid great privilege and formality. Together with her sisters,
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Margaret also lost another one of her daughters-in-law during the war. Wolfgang's wife,
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who, in 1947, married the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom and, in 1952, became
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Margaret's elder sons, Friedrich Wilhelm and Maximilian, were killed in action during
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In 1918, Margaret's husband accepted the offer of the throne of newly independent
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At the time of the wedding, Prince Frederick Charles was not the Head of the
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oldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm, died on 12 September 1916 at Kara Orman in
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Princess Margaret of Prussia was the youngest of eight children born to
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from her home at Schloss Kronberg. Philipp married Princess
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Schloss Friedrichshof, Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse, Germany
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of Hesse-Kassel (20 October 1894 – 13 October 1914),
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Queen consort-elect of Finland
New Palace
Potsdam
Prussia
German Empire
Schloss Friedrichshof
Kronberg im Taunus
Hesse
West Germany
Frederick Charles, Landgrave of Hesse
Issue
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse
Prince Wolfgang
Prince Christoph
Prince Richard
German
House
Hohenzollern
Frederick III, German Emperor
Victoria, Princess Royal
House of Hohenzollern

Frederick III
Wilhelm II
Charlotte, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
Prince Henry
Prince Sigismund
Princess Viktoria
Prince Waldemar

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