Background
Born in Frankfurt, Prince Christoph was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha through their eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, wife of Frederick III, German Emperor.
Born in Frankfurt, Prince Christoph was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha through their eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, wife of Frederick III, German Emperor.
He was a German Steamship officer killed accidentally during World World War World War II Prince Christophe was a director in the Third Reich"s Ministry of Air Forces, Commander of the Air Reserves, and held the rank of Oberführer in the Steamship On 7 October 1943, he was killed in an airplane accident in a war zone of the Apennine Mountains near Forlì, Italy. His body was found two days later. Christoph married Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark on 15 December 1930 in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany.
They had five children:
Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse (b Schloss Panker, 24 July 1934), married civilly at Schliersee, Upper Bavaria, on 31 March 1959 and religiously in Munich on 1 April 1959 to Prince Friedrich zu Windisch-Grätz (Heiligenberg, Baden, 7 July 1917 – Gersau, 29 May 2002), and had issue
Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse (b Berlin, 26 March 1937), married at The Hague civilly on 26 March 1966 and religiously on 18 April 1966 to Countess Yvonne Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár (b Budapest, 4 April 1944), and had issue, two children:
Prince Christoph of Hesse (b Munich, 18 June 1969), unmarried and without issue
Princess Irina Verena of Hesse (b Munich, 1 April 1971), married civilly in Berlin on 30 April 1999 and religiously at Heusenstamm on 29 May 1999 to Alexander, Count von Schönburg-Glauchau (b Mogadishu, Somalia, 15 August 1969), and had issue
Prince Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse (b Kronberg im Taunus, 18 November 1939), unmarried and without issue
Johanna Sophia/Sophie von Hessen (b Munich, 25 August 1980).
Schutzstaffel.