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Brigitta of Prussia "I was afraid of his whip"

Bunte.de editorial office from BUNTE.de editors 05th December 2014 at 18:25

Princess Brigitta of Prussia speaks on a talk show for the first time about her terrible childhood. The 75-year-old was a victim of domestic violence as a young woman.

Just over half a year ago, Princess Brigitta of Prussia (75) suffered a heavy stroke of fate. For on April 3, her husband, Michael Prince of Prussia, died at the age of 74 years. The historian was not only the godfather of Georg Friedrich of Prussia (38), but also a great-grandson of the last German emperor.

His second wife Brigitta (born Dallwitz-Wegner), whom he married in 1982, comes from a good family. Actually. For as she publicly revealed for the first time this evening in the TV talk "Nachtcafé", her childhood was marked by terrible suffering. Her mother Elisabeth Heimann was ill for years in the sanatorium, her father, Hans Viktor von Dallwitz-Wegner, and the governess, who became his mistress, beat and chastised Brigitta and her brother, who died prematurely.

"My father trampled my self-confidence. I only had complexes. And he was a rider, a tournament rider, and he had whips and he only hit with whips. So my brother had a back up to the top. The governess did the same. And my father punished us because the governess had to punish us. And that's why we've always got it twice, "says the 75-year-old her horror childhood.

This time of drought must have been really bad for her brother, as Princess Brigitta of Prussia continues in a conversation with moderator Wieland Backes (68): "My brother got the most, he was just the brother, the son, the should be strong and he was the only boy. And he just was not, he was a rather tender boy. My father had something else to do with him than his successor or what he imagined with him. And that's why he beat him all the more. And I was just afraid of this whip. "

All the more tragic that the brother of the princess could never recover from these torments. "I had a very good relationship with him. I went to the German Vogue in Munich and he came sometimes. And because I suddenly came up with the idea that he somehow might not get along, I said: "You always call me before." But he did not do that. And then he jumped off the quarry - out of life. "

What remains is the question of how Brigitta of Prussia even managed to overcome her fears - she was, according to her own statements, frequently imprisoned as a child. And here comes back to her husband, Prince Michael of Prussia, in the game, which she could tell everything: "My husband was the first and only, to which I could say honestly that I can not stand closed doors and this and that .. . "Explains the 75-year-old on the talk show.

One can only hope that you have also helped this mission to deal more openly with the suffering of the past in order to live freer in the future ... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Princess Birgitta of Prussia (nee Dallwitz-Wegner) never got over the death of her husband, Prince Michael, who died on April 3, 2014 following a long illness.

The couple married in a civil ceremony at Baden Soden on June 23, 1982, soon after Michael's divorce from his first wife, Jutta Jörn.

Michael was the second son of the late Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and Grand Duchess Kira of Russia. He lost his dynastic rights in 1966 when he married Jutta, a commoner. The couple had two daughters, Micaela and Nataly.

Although Birgitta (known as Gitta) had a wide circle of friends, she felt alone, unable to cope without her beloved husband. Sometime in late October or early November, she was found dead in her home in Thanheim, Baden-Württemberg. She had been dead for a least a week, if not longer. The cause of death was suicide: an overdose of pills.

In December, Princess Birgitta will be laid to rest in the family crypt, next to her husband, at Burg Hohenzollern in Hechingen.

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