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well as the newly born son of Princess Cecilia, were all
killed. The child's unexpected arrival apparently caused
the tragedy, as the pilot tried to land at Ostend, an
unscheduled stop. Prince Ludwig, social attache at the
German Embassy in London, went ahead with the
wedding on the following day; his best man was his
cousin Prince Louis Mountbatten. Two princes of Hesse
had married two daughters of Queen Victoria; Beatrice
had married Prince Henry of Battenberg; grandfather of
the present husband of Queen Elizabeth.
Prince Ludwig's father-in-law, Sir Auckland Campbell
Geddes, also had a Rothschild connection; he was
chairman of Rio Tinto. He served as Minister of National
Service, 1917-19, British Ambassador to the U.S., 1920-
24. His brother, Sir Eric Geddes, was a member of the
Imperial War Cabinet and First Lord of the Admiralty
1917-18, Minister of National Transport 1919-21, and
later chairman Imperial Airways and Dunlop Rubber. His
son, Sir Anthony Geddes, married into the Matthey
family, became director of the Bank of England, dep.
chairman Midland Bank, director Shell Transport &
Trading, and is now chmn Dunlop Holdings. Sir
Auckland's son, the 2d Baron, was with Shell Oil 1931-
46, British Merchant Shipping Mission in Washington,
1942-44, Minister of War Transport, 1944-45, and is now
director of Peninsular & Orient Steamship Lines.
On June 7, 1946, the New York Times headlined a front
page story from Frankfurt-on-Main; the army was
seeking $1,500,000 in stolen jewels, later revised to $3