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Princess Christina of Hesse

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Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (Christina Margarethe Prinzessin von Hessen; 10 January 1933 – 22 November 2011) was a German princess. 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. Family background and early life 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. 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 191
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