Bar Princess Cecilie who died, Prince Phillip maintained contact with his mother and sisters. Although they did not attend his wedding, 6 years later they attended the Queen's Coronation at Westminster Abbey.I honestly wasn't sure if he ever spoke to them again.
Towards the end of her life, his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg moved into Buckingham Palace, she lived there for about 2 years until she passed away in December 1969.
One of his sister's (either princess Margarita or Princess Sophie) used to like camping out in Buckingham Palace, apparently the servants found her very rude and demanding. Nevertheless he maintained contact with them to the end; Margarita died in 1981, and Sophie died in 2001. Sophie was a regular visitor to London. She was one of Prince Edward's godparents.
Although Phillip has seceral nieces and nephews who are still living, they are very old, so at the funeral his sisters families were repped by their grandsons (his grand nephews).
Margarita was repped by her grandson, Prince Phillip, Head of the Hohenlohe Langenburg family (he is descendent from Margarita's son, the late Prince Kraft of Hohenlohe Langenburg).
Theodore was repped by her grandson, Bernard of Baden, his father, the current head of the family Maximillian aged 84, was too old to travel, what with Covid.
His sisters Cecilie and Sophie married into the two different branches of the Hesse family; Cecilie married the heir of the Hesse and Rhine family, whilst Sophie married into the Landgrave Hesse family.
Cecilie's family perished in the aircraft, the one survivor, a daughter died of meningitis two months later. If Cecilie's family had not died, one of her children/grand children would have been the head of the Hesse and Rhine family. She was repped by Donatus the Head of the Landgrave of Hesse family.
Sophia's sons Prince Karl Adolph Andreas (named for Hitler) and Prince Rainer aged 84 and 82 were too old to travel as well, what with the risk of covid. So they sent their nephew, the current Head of the family Donatus Landgrave of Hesse (he was basically on double duty, repping for Cecile and Sophia).
* Sophia's first husband, Christophe, and Donatus father (also called Phillip were brothers). Phillip was the 3rd born son, however he became heir apparent on the death of his 2 older brothers in WW1.
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