Princess Felicitas of Prussia


Princess Felicitas of Prussia was a German princess and great-granddaughter of the last German Emperor, Wilhelm II. After her grandfather died in 1951, she was the first person in line to the British throne who was not a descendant of one of Queen Victoria's sons.

Biography

Felicitas was born in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, in 1934, as one of two daughters. Her parents were Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife, Dorothea von Salviati. Her sister was Princess Christa.
Her father, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, was the eldest son of Crown Prince Wilhelm, the heir of the last German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. Felicitas' grandfather, Crown Prince Wilhelm, went into exile in the Netherlands in 1918 following the end of World War I and the collapse of the German monarchy.
Felicitas' father, Prince Wilhelm, was killed in France in 1940 during World War II.

Marriages and issue

On 12 December 1958 Felicitas married Dinnies Karl Friedrich von der Osten. They had four children:
They were divorced in 1972, and on 27 October 1972 she married Jorg Hartwig von Nostitz-Wallwitz at Aumühle. They had one daughter:
Felicitas died in Wohltorf, Germany, on 1 August 2009, at the age of 75. Her family did not give a cause of death. She was buried in Aumühle, near Hamburg.

Ancestry