Editing Cecilie, Dowager Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right" size="500px"
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! colspan="2" |HSH The Dowager Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont
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| colspan="2" |[[File:Goess_Cecilie.png|center|frameless]]
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|'''Titles'''
|Dowager Princess of [[Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
Countess of [[Austria-Hungary|Goess-Sarau]]
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|'''Reign'''
|19 May 1988 - 16 December 2024
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|'''Predecessor'''
|[[Princess Altburg of Oldenburg]]
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! colspan="2" |Biographical Information
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|'''Born'''
|23 August 1956 (age 60)
Frohnleiten, Austria, Austria-Hungary
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|'''Spouse'''
|[[Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
(m. 1988; w. 2024)
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|'''Issue'''
|[[Carl Anton, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Carl Anton]]
[[Prince Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Prince Josias]]

[[Prince Johannes of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Prince Johannes]]
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|'''Name'''
|Cecilie Antoinette Maria Philippine
|-
|'''House'''
|Goess (by birth)
Waldeck (by marriage)
|-
|'''Father'''
|[[Johann Baptist, Count of Goess-Sarau]]
|-
|'''Mother'''
|[[Maria Mathilde von Melnhof]]
|-
|'''Religion'''
|Roman Catholic
|}
'''Cecilie, Dowager Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont''' (born ''Countess Cecilie of Goess-Sarau'' on 23 August 1956) is a member of the Waldeck and Pyrmont Princely Family as the mother of '''Carl Anton, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont'''. 

==Life==
Cecilie was born the sixth child and second daughter of '''Johann Baptist, Count of Goess-Sarau''' and '''Maria Mathilde von Melnhof'''.

Cecilie has served as First Lady of the Waldeck and Pyrmont court since 2024 for her son, Carl Anton. 

==Marriage and Issue==
On 19 May 1988, Cecilie married '''Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont''' in Arolsen. The couple had three sons, '''Carl Anton, Josias,''' and '''Johannes'''. 
{| class="wikitable"
!Photo
!Name
!Birth
!Death
!Marriage
|-
|[[File:Waldeck-Pyrmont_Carl_Anton.png|frameless|149x149px]]
|[[Carl Anton, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Carl Anton]]
|31 December 1991
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|Unmarried and without issue
|-
|[[File:Waldeck_Josias_1993.png|frameless|149x149px]]
|[[Prince Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Prince Josias]]
|7 September 1993
|
|Unmarried and without issue
|-
|[[File:Waldeck_Johannes.png|frameless|149x149px]]
|[[Prince Johannes of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Prince Johannes]]
|7 September 1993
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|[[Countess Philippine d'Querrieu]] (m. 2024); has issue
|}

==Residences==
<gallery>
File:Residences Waldeck and Pyrmont Arolsen Castle.png|link=|Arolsen Castle; Main Residence (September-May)
File:Residences Waldeck and Pyrmont Schaumburg Castle.png|link=|Schaumburg Castle; Summer Residence (June-August)
</gallery>

==Sartorial Information==
===Tiara Collection===
As First Lady of the Waldeck and Pyrmont court, Cecilie has access to the entirety of the [[Waldeck and Pyrmont Tiara Collection]]. Below are the tiaras that she personally owns.<gallery>
File:Tiaras Nobility Goess Cecilie Lotus Halo Tiara.jpg|(1988) Lotus Halo Tiara; Wedding gift from her in-laws
File:Tiaras Nobility Goess Cecilie Ruby Tiara.png|(1988) Ruby Tiara; Wedding gift from her parents
</gallery>

===Clothing Collection===
Clothing Collection

==Titles and Honours==

*'''1956-1988'''   Countess Cecilie of Goess-Sarau
*'''1988-2024'''   Cecilie, Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont
*'''2024-present'''   Cecilie, Dowager Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont

===National Honours===
[[File:Honours_Waldeck_and_Pyrmont_Order_of_Merit.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of Merit (1988)

===Foreign Honours===
[[File:Honours_Prussia_Order_of_the_Black_Eagle.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Black Eagle (2013) (Germany)

[[File:Honours_Prussia_Order_of_the_Red_Eagle.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Red Eagle (1990) (Germany)

==Ancestry==
{| class="wikitable"
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!Parents
!Grandparents
!Great-Grandparents
!Great-Great-Grandparents
|-
|[[Johann Baptist, Count of Goess-Sarau]]
|[[Johann Zeno, Count of Goess]]
[[Countess Emma of Welsersheimb]]
|[[Leopold, Count of Goess]]
[[Countess Marianne of Valassina-Como-Vercelli]]<br>
[[Zeno, Count of Welsersheimb]]<br>
[[Caroline von Hirzenau]]
|[[Peter Karl, Count of Goess]]
[[Countess Maria of Welsersheimb]]<br>
[[Johann Duclas, Count of Valassina-Como-Vercelli]]<br>
[[Countess Gabriele of Bray-Steinburg]]<br>
[[Leopold, Count of Welsersheimb]]<br>
[[Countess Antonia of Szechysziget-Szapar]]<br>
[[Baron Franz Carl Hirzenau]]<br>
[[Countess Julia of Futak]]
|-
|[[Maria Mathilde von Melnhof]]
|[[Baron Franz Melnhof]]
[[Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst]]
|[[Baron Franz Melnhof]]
[[Mathilde von Tinti]]
[[Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst]]<br>
[[Countess Franziska of Schonborn-Buchheim]]
|N/A
N/A<br>
[[Karl von Tinti]]<br>
[[Mathilde von Lederer-Trattnem]]<br>
[[Prince Constantin of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst]]<br>
[[Princess Marie of Sayn-Wittgenstein]]<br>
[[Erwin, Count of Schonborn-Buchheim]]<br>
[[Countess Franziska of Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg]]
|}

==Notes==
Face: Geena Davis
[[Category:Nobility of Austria]]
[[Category:Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
[[Category:House Goess]]
[[Category:Consorts of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]