Robert Floris van Eyck
Robert Floris van Eyck or van Eijk, was a London poet, artist and art restorer.Family
He was born in The Hague as the son of poet, critic, essayist and philosopher Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck and wife Nelly Estelle Benjamins, a woman of Sephardic origin born and raised in Suriname.
In March 1918, his brother Aldo van Eyck, later a famous architect, was born in Driebergen. In 1919, his family moved to London where his father was a correspondent for the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant. Van Eyk was educated in England during his youth.Marriage and children
Van Eyck married in London on 3 December 1962 and divorced in 1986 Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse. They had two children, Helene and Mark.
