page_title: Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
section_title: Birth and ancestry
hierarchical_section_title: Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark / Birth and ancestry
caption_attribution_description: English: Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911–1937)
context_page_description: Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark was the wife of Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse and third-eldest sister to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
context_section_description: Cecilie was the third child and daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. She was born on 22 June 1911 at the summer estate of the Greek Royal Family at Tatoi, fifteen kilometres north of Athens. Although her given name was Cecilie, she was known to her family as Cécile.
  Cecilie was baptised at Tatoi on 2 July 1911.  Her godparents were King George V of the United Kingdom (who had his coronation as the king of the United Kingdom on the day of Cecilie's birth), Grand Duke Ernst Louis of Hesse, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Duchess Vera of Württemberg.
  Through her father, Cecilie was a grandchild of King George I of Greece and his wife Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia (a granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia); through her mother, she was a great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
  Cecilie had three sisters: Margarita (wife of Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg), Theodora (wife of Berthold, Margrave of Baden) and Sophie (wife firstly of Prince Christoph of Hesse and secondly of Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hanover). Her brother Philip, later Duke of Edinburgh, is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
  In 1922 Cecilie and her sisters were bridesmaids at the wedding of their maternal uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten (later Earl Mountbatten of Burma) to Edwina Ashley.
caption: Cecilie as a young girl, 1922
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "1st July 1922:  Princess Cecilia of Greece (1911 - 1937), daughter of Princess Alice and Prince Andrew of Greece, later Cecilia, Grand Duchess of Hesse.  She is at the wedding of the Countess of Ashley to Earl Mountbatten.  She is the sister of the Duke of Edinburgh.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)"}