HRH Princess Margarita of Baden
HRH Princess Margarita of Baden, who has died aged 80, was a niece of the Duke of Edinburgh and was well known in Britain, having trained as a nurse at St Thomas’ Hospital in the 1950s and made England her home after her marriage to Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia.
Her Grand Ducal Highness (as she was then styled) Princess Margarita Alice Thyra Viktoria Marie Louise Scholastica was born at Salem, Germany, on July 14 1932, the eldest of three children of Prince Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and his wife, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, a sister of Prince Philip. Margarita’s father was head of the grand ducal House of Baden and the son of Max of Baden, who was himself briefly imperial chancellor in 1918. A descendant of the Duke of Cumberland , he had links with the British Royal family.