Of all the fictionalisations and inaccuracies in The Crown, none has caused more offence than the claim that a young Prince Philip was in some way at fault for the death of his favourite sister, Cecilie. The third of the five children born to Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of and Denmark, Princess Cecilie was killed in a plane in November 1937Cecilie also witnessed the Balkan Wars, in which the Turks were finally expelled from Europe, and the , which led to her family’s exile in Switzerland, and then in .
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