Crownprince Wilhelm and Crownprincess Cecilie,and their descendants

Yes, Felicitas and Christa maintained good relations with their Prussian relatives

Cecilie's memoirs were published prior to Felicitas' birth, so there is not record, that I have seen, of their relationship in memoir form. Did Felicitas maintain a close rapport with Cecilie after the dead of her father? A fatherless child is often the object of grandparents' great attention. Was this the case?

As a short form of Christina, the name Christa suggests that Wilhelm and his wife had adopted a much less formal, more casual lifestyle. Throughout the family, after WWI, the strict regimens broke down and divorices were common, etc. Naming a princess with almost a nickname really broke with tradition.

The House of Hohenzollern mourns the death of IKH Magdalen,Princess Hubertus.

IKH Princess Magdalene,néé Reuss( Princess Hubertus),the last surviving daughter-in-law of Crown Prince Wilhelm and Cecilie,
passed away at Löwenstein Castle,Kleinheubach,Hessen last saturday aged 89.

The Princess will be interred next to her husband at the Michaels Bastion of the Hohenzollern Castle

http://www.preussen.de/de/heute/aktuell/trauer_um_ikh_magdalene_prinzessin_hubertus_von_preussen.html

Cecilie with her sister Alexandrine, Queen of Denmark. Does anyone have any other pictures of them together? At the time it must have seemed as if Cecilie had the more splendid future to look forward to.

there are plenty of them together such as...

Alexandrine's beauty faded fast. She looked almost plain compared to her sister.

Alexandrine seems to vary from one photograph to another, but she was a good-looking woman in my view.

I think she was pretty in her youth, but faded rather quickly. It could have been living with Christian X was no bed of roses ?

Was he a difficult man?

He could be gruff and had a temper but wasn't basically unkind. He always reminded me in personality of his cousin George V.

We better look for answers here

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=1711.0

 ;-)

Thanks, that's a good thread

Alexandrine's beauty faded fast. She looked almost plain compared to her sister.

Be careful not to judge too hastily. Still young, Cecilie gave way to grow very large while her sister Alexandrine, though plump, done more attention to her appearance. Cecilie was probably more beautiful than her older sister in her youth but we can not say that she remained in her maturity.

I think Cecilie has more beautiful features than Alexandrine. She looked pretty in her youth, but grew plain quite early. Her son Nico (King Fredrick IX) looked very much like her.

Wasn't his nickname within the family 'Rico', not 'Nico'? I have to say, I never saw much resemblance between the broad, blunt features of Frederick IX and the daintier features of his mother but in the eye of the beholder.

Cecile and Alexandrine maintained strong ties throughout two World Wars and the Danish royals were often seen in Mecklenburg in the interwar period.