Theodora (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) Baden (1906 - 1969)

Born 13 May 1906 in Athínai, Attiki, Attiki, Greece

Ancestors

Wife of Berthold Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst August Heinrich Karl Baden — married 17 Aug 1931 in Baden-Baden, Baden, Deutsches Reich

Descendants

Died 16 Oct 1969 at age 63 in Büdingen, Germany

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Biography

Theodora (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) Baden is Notable.

Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark was the second child and daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. She was the second eldest sister of Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, Duke of Edinburgh.^[1]

At the end of the 1920s, Theodora's mother was struck by a mental health crisis that led to her confinement in a Swiss psychiatric hospital. Shortly after, in 1931, Theodora married Berthold, Margrave of Baden, son of Chancellor of the German Reich Prince Maximilian. The couple then moved to Salem Castle, where Berthold ran a school with teacher Kurt Hahn. The princess gave birth to three children there: Margarita (1932–2013), Maximilian (born 1933), and Ludwig (born 1937).

Death

She died on 16 October 1969 at the clinic of Doctor Büdingen in Konstanz, Germany, having survived her husband by six years. Her funeral took place at the mausoleum of the Baden family in Salem. Her mother, Princess Alice, outlived her by five weeks, dying on 5 December 1969.

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Princess_Theodora_of_Greece_and_Denmark_(1906–1969)

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