Princess Kira of Prussia

Princess Kira of Prussia
Kira in 1966
Born27 June 1943
Cadienen, East Prussia, Nazi Germany
Died10 January 2004(2004-01-10) (aged 60)
Berlin, Germany
Burial24 January 2004
Spouse
Thomas Liepsner
(m. 1973; div. 1984)
IssueKira-Marina von Bismarck (née Liepsner)
Names
Kira Auguste Viktoria Friederike
HouseHohenzollern
FatherLouis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia
MotherGrand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

Princess Kira Auguste Viktoria Friederike of Prussia (27 June 1943 – 10 January 2004) was the fourth child and second daughter of Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia. Princess Kira was born in Cadienen, East Prussia (today Kadyny, Poland).

She married Thomas Frank Liepsner on 10 September 1973 in a civil ceremony. The religious ceremony was held the next day at Felizenweil. They were divorced in 1984. They had one daughter, Kira-Marina Liepsner (born 22 January 1977), who married Andreas Felix Paul von Bismarck (31 January 1979 – 31 October 2019) on 7 May 2005 in St. Peter und Paul Church on Nikolskoë, Berlin.

When her father died in 1994, she took his seat on the board of the Kissinger Sommer classical music festival.[1] She died in Berlin after a long illness.[2] Her urn was buried in Hohenzollern Castle.

  1. ^ "Nicht Land noch Thron". Tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
  2. ^ Abschied von Kira Prinzessin von Preußen. In: Berliner Zeitung, 22. Januar 2004