Princess Kira of Prussia

{{Short description|Prussian royal (1943–2004)}}

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{{Infobox royalty

| image = File:Kira van Pruisen (1966).jpg

| caption = Kira in 1966

| full name = Kira Auguste Viktoria Friederike

| birth_date = 27 June 1943

| birth_place = Cadienen, East Prussia, Nazi Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|1|10|1943|6|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Berlin, Germany

| burial_date = 24 January 2004

| place of burial = Hohenzollern Castle

| occupation =

| house =Hohenzollern

| spouse = {{marriage|Thomas Liepsner|1973|1984|end=div}}

| issue = Kira-Marina von Bismarck

| father = Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia

| mother = Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

| signature =

| religion =

}}

Princess Kira Auguste Viktoria Friederike of Prussia (27 June 1943 – 10 January 2004) was the fourth child and second daughter of Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia. Princess Kira was born in Cadienen, East Prussia (today Kadyny, Poland).

She married Thomas Frank Liepsner on 10 September 1973 in a civil ceremony. The religious ceremony was held the next day at Felizenweil. They were divorced in 1984. They had one daughter, Kira-Marina Liepsner (born 22 January 1977), who married Andreas Felix Paul von Bismarck (31 January 1979 – 31 October 2019), a distant relative of the Princes of Bismark on 7 May 2005 in St. Peter and Paul Church on Nikolskoë, Berlin. They have two daughters.

When her father died in 1994, she took his seat on the board of the Kissinger Sommer classical music festival.{{cite news|title=Nicht Land noch Thron|periodical=Tagesspiegel.de|publisher=|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/panorama/nicht-land-noch-thron/481682.html|url-status=|format=|access-date=2013-04-04|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}} She died in Berlin after a long illness.[https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/abschied-von-kira-prinzessin-von-preussen-li.15134 Abschied von Kira Prinzessin von Preußen.] In: Berliner Zeitung, 22. Januar 2004 Her urn was buried in Hohenzollern Castle.

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Category:People from Tolkmicko

Category:People from East Prussia

Category:House of Hohenzollern

Category:Prussian princesses