of rage, which pushed her, for example, to tear up the photograph that Cecilie sent her after the birth of her first child. Once released from the hospital, Alice made known her desire to stay away from her family and four years passed before she put an end to her voluntary exile. During this period, Cecilie continued, despite everything, to write to her and to send her photos of the family. In December 1936, Alice finally made the decision to reconnect with her family, and it was Cecilie that she got closer to first. The mother and daughter reunited in Bonn in the spring of 1937. From this date, their relationship became normal and the two met again in Salem, in July 1937. Association with the Nazi Party and restoration of the monarchy in Greece Prince Christoph of Hesse, Cecilie's brother-in-law, joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and the SS in 1932. For their part, the princes of Hesse kept their distance from the far-right party for a long time because the Grand Duke Ernest Louis had no sympathy for the Führers ideas. However, things changed in May 1937. On that date, Georg Donatus and Louis, the two sons of the former sovereign, joined the Nazi Party. Following the example of her husband and her brother-in-law, Cecilie joined the party at the same time. While in Germany the establishment of the Nazi regime prevented any plans to restore the monarchy, in Greece the republic collapsed after the putsch of General Georgios Kondylis in November 1935. Reinstalled on the throne by a referendum, George II then lifted the banishment sentence issued against Cecilie's father in 1922. In November 1936, the King of the Hellenes also organized the return of the remains and ashes of members of the Greek royal family who died in exile. This event was the opportunity for Cecilie and her family to return, for the first time, to Greece after fourteen years of banishment. Titular Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine In 1937, Cecilie became pregnant again. At the same time, the health of her father-in-law, Grand Duke Ernest Louis, deteriorated sharply. Suffering from lung cancer, the former ruler hoped to live long enough to attend the wedding of his second son, Louis, to Hon. Margaret Campbell Geddes, scheduled to take place in London on 23 October 1937. However, the Grand Duke died a few days before