The royal couple could enjoy their new home only for one year. In 1918, the German Revolution ended the monarchy and the royal family was exiled to Holland and the castle became property of the German Republic.
In 1926, Prince William and his family were permitted to return to Potsdam as private citizen without royal privileges and to live in Cecilienhof as private tenants.
In 1945, shortly before the Soviet Army took Potsdam, the fled into the American occupied Zone of Germany, where they lived for the rest of their lives. |
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Churchill, Truman and Stalin in the Cecilienhof garden, 25 July 1945 Source: Wikipedia
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