Later Life
Hermine's daughter, Henriette, married Wilhelm's grandson, Prince Joachim's son, Prince Karl Franz (Emperor Wilhelm's stepdaughter and grandson respectively), in 1940.
After the death of Wilhelm II in 1941, Hermine returned to Germany. She lived on her first husband's estate in Silesia until 1945. After the Second World War, Hermine was held under house arrest at Frankfurt an der Oder in the Soviet Zone of Germany.
She died aged 59 at the Paulinenhof Internment Camp near Brandenburg in August 1947. She was buried in the Antique Temple in Potsdam.
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