Johanna Marina Eleonora (Darmstadt, 20 September 1936 - 14 June 1939) was a princess of Hesse and the Rhine.
She was the youngest child and the only daughter of George Donatus from Hessen-Darmstadt and his wife, Cecilia of Greece, a sister of the British Prince Philip.
At a very young age, she lost her parents and brothers, who died at the crash at Ostend in 1937. Her family was on their way to London to attend the marriage of Johanna's Uncle Louis Hessen-Darmstadt with Margaret Geddes. After the accident, Johanna was. Louis and his wife (their wedding ceremony took place as planned, but both the groom and the bride were dressed in mourning), adopted their cousin for the purpose of educating them as their own child. However, the girl developed a meningitis, the consequences of which she died at the age of two and a half.
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