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Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

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Hohenzollern Castle Hohenzollern Castle (german: Burg Hohenzollern ) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop Mount Hohenzollern, above and south of Hechingen, on the ed ...

Württemberg-Hohenzollern Württemberg-Hohenzollern (french: Wurtemberg-Hohenzollern ) was a West German state created in 1945 as part of the French post-World War II occupation zone. Its capital was Tübingen. In 1952, it was merged into the newly founded state of Bad ...

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Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: Haus Hohenzollern, , ro, Casa de Hohenzollern) is a German royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenb ...

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Wilhelm, German Crown Prince Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst; 6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the eldest child of the last ''Kaiser ''Kaiser'' is the German word for "emperor" (female Kaiserin). In gen ...

, mother =

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (20 September 1886 – 6 May 1954) was the last German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia as the wife of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, the son of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Cecili ...

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Prince Andreas
Princess Victoria Marina, Mrs. Achache
Prince Rupert

Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington Princess Antonia of Prussia, Duchess of Wellington, Princess of Waterloo, Duchess of Victoria, Duchess of Ciudad Rodrigo, (Antonia Elizabeth Brigid Louise Mansfeld; born 28 April 1955) is a British aristocrat and philanthropist. She serves as ...

Prince Frederick George William Christopher of Prussia (german: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph Prinz von Preußen; 19 December 1911 – 20 April 1966), also known as Friedrich von Preussen in the

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,Commons Debate of 19 October 1961
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and

Marriage

Frederick married Brigid Guinness on 30 July 1945 at

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. They had five children:Eilers, Marlene. Queen Victoria's Descendants. Rosvall Royal Books, Falkoping, Sweden, 1997. pp.17-18, 124-125, 172. Prince Nicholas Von Preussen (cropped)

*Prince Frederick ''Nicholas'' (born 3 May 1946) married

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ally,Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XIV. "Haus Preußen". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1991, pp. 148-149. . Hon. Victoria Lucinda Mancroft (born 7 March 1952, daughter of Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft) on 27 February 1980 in London and has issue. *Prince Andreas (born 14 November 1947) married non-dynastically, Alexandra Blahova (28 December 1947 - 8 September 2019) on 2 January 1979, and has issue, including Tatiana von Preussen. *Princess Victoria Marina (born 22 February 1952) married Philippe Alphonse Achache (born 25 March 1945) on 3 May 1976, and has issue. *Prince Rupert (born 28 April 1955) married non-dynastically, Ziba Rastegar-Javaheri (born 12 December 1954, into a family of wealthy Iranian industrialistsMilani, Abbas. Eminent Persians, The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, Volume 1
Syracuse University Press and Persian World Press, Syracuse, New York, 2008. pp.661-664. ) on 5 January 1982 in London, and has issue. * Princess Antonia (born 28 April 1955) who married

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on 3 February 1977 at St. Paul's Church, London, and has issue.

Studies in Britain and internment

He was studying at

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and lived incognito as the ''Count von Lingen'' when war broke out in September 1939. He was arrested and interned in May 1940. He was held in Britain for several months and sent to

internment camps Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without Criminal charge, charges or Indictment, intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects ...

near

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and soon afterwards in

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. In both camps, he was elected camp leader by fellow inmates.Grandson of Kaiser Was Held in Canada. Toronto Star, June 1, 1945, p. 28

British naturalisation in 1947

He renounced his German citizenship in 1947. He was naturalised as a British citizen in October 1947 under the name ''Friedrich von Preussen'' (having also been known during residence in the UK as "George Mansfield"). This naturalisation was controversial, in part because being a descendant of

Sophia of Hanover Sophia of Hanover (born Princess Sophia of the Palatinate; 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714) was the Electress of Hanover by marriage to Elector Ernest Augustus and later the heiress presumptive to the thrones of England and Scotland (later Grea ...

, and having rights under the

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, as amended by the

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, he had a claim to British citizenship from birth. His status in context of his claim for compensation for property seized in

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was debated in Parliament and the law courts until 1961.

Death

He was the owner of at Erbach, Germany. While staying there in 1966, he went missing and was found two weeks later after he had drowned in the

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. Whether it was suicide or an accident could not be determined.

Ancestry

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frederick Of Prussia 1911 births 1966 deaths House of Hohenzollern Prussian princes People from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg Deaths by drowning Accidental deaths in Germany German emigrants to England Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom People from the Rheingau