Prince Frederick of Prussia

Prince Frederick George William Christopher of Prussia (; 19 December 1911 – 20 April 1966), also known as Friedrich von Preussen in the United Kingdom, was the fourth son of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Marriage and issue Prince Frederick married Lady Brigid Guinness on 30 July 1945 at Little Hadham. They had five children:

Prince Frederick Nicholas (b. 1946) married non-dynastically Hon. Victoria Lucinda Mancroft (daughter of Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft) in 1980 in London, and has issue. Prince Andreas "Andrew" (b. 1947) married non-dynastically

British naturalisation in 1947 He renounced his German citizenship in 1947. This naturalisation was controversial, in part because being a descendant of Sophia of Hanover, and having rights under the Act of Settlement 1701, as amended by the Sophia Naturalisation Act 1705, he had a claim to British citizenship from birth. His status in context of his claim for compensation for property seized in Poland was debated in Parliament and the law courts until 1961.

Death He was the owner of in Erbach, Germany. While staying there in 1966, he went missing. His body was found two weeks later; he had drowned in the Rhine. Whether his death was suicide or an accident could not be determined.

Ancestry