Cecilienhof: Difference between revisions

The palace was finished in August 1917. It was named Cecilienhof after the Duchess and the couple moved in immediately. Cecilie gave birth at Cecilienhof to her youngest child, {{Interlanguage link multi|Cecilie of Prussia|de|3=Cecilie von Preußen (1917–1975)}} who was born on 5 September 1917.<ref name="Monumente"/> However, when the [[German Revolution of 1918–19|revolution]] erupted in November 1918, for security reasons Cecilie and her six children moved for a while to the ''[[Neues Palais]]'', where the wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, [[Empress Augusta Victoria]], was living. After the Empress followed her husband into exile in the Netherlands, Cecilie remained in Potsdam and returned to Cecilienhof where she lived until 1920. As the property of the Hohenzollern family had been confiscated after the revolution, Cecilie then had to move her residence to an estate at [[Oels]] in Silesia, which was a private property. Only her sons [[Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940)|Wilhelm (William)]] and [[Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia|Louis Ferdinand]] remained at Cecilienhof while they attended a public ''Realgymnasium'' (school) in Potsdam. Crown Prince Wilhelm had gone into exile in the Netherlands on 13 November 1918 and was internedinterred on the island of [[Wieringen]]. He was allowed to return to Germany—as a private citizen—on 9 November 1923. In June 1926, a referendum on expropriating the former ruling Princes of Germany without compensation failed and as a consequence, the financial situation of the Hohenzollern family improved considerably. A settlement between the state and the family made Cecilienhof property of the state but granted a right of residence to Wilhelm and Cecilie. This was limited in duration to three generations.<ref name="Broschure"/>{{rp|9–12}}