Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000

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Gottfried Prince

Grandson of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh

Margarita MOUNTBATTEN Princess

5 children

Theodora MOUNTBATTEN Princess

4 children

Marie PAVLOVNA Grand Duchess

The former Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Became the Grand Duchess Vladimir

Cyril Vladimirovitch ROMANOV Grand Duke

Cyril Vladimirovitch ROMANOV, Grand Duke

Nicholas II's first cousin. Escaped the Bolsheviks and was the first Romanov to break his allegiance to Nicholas II. In 1924, Cyril proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and established his "court" in a village in Brittany. He died at sixty-two in 1938 in the American Hospital in Paris. His son, Vladimir, (b. 1918) lives in Madrid and is considered head of the House of Romanov. The Grand Duke Cyril was an officer in the Russian Imperial Navy and died while in exile.

Victoria MELITA Grand Duchess

Victoria, (1) Grand Duchess Ernest of Hesse (2) Grand Duchess Cyrill of Russia. Divorced in 1901. Married 2nd time in 1905. Victoria Melita was married first to a nobleman from the bottomless reservoir of minor German royalty, Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse. But it was an unhappy union which soon ended in divorce. He eye then lighted on her first cousin Kirill, the son of her mother's brother Vladimir; The couple were witness events that lead to the 1917 Revolution in St. Petersburg after being banished from Russia by Nicholas II (a member of his Imperial family had married a divorced woman without the Tzar's permission). A.k.a.: Victoria Feodorovna. They spent some time in exile in Finland; finally settled in France where her husband tried to revive the Russian Monarch proclaiming his right to the throne.

NOTES: Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, Princess of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Duchess of Saxony. a.k.a.: Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg; She was Cyril's first cousin (such unions are forbidden by the church) and she had deserted as consort none other than the Empress Alexandra's brother, Ernest of Hesse.

Boris ROMANOV Grand Duke

Noted only for his indolent and dissipated life as a bachelor in and about
St. Petersburg.

Andrei Vladimirovich ROMANOV Grand Duke

1 NAME Andrew //

Andrew Vladimirovich was rated "gifted, intelligent and a hard worker" by
the court doctor.

Serge Alexandrovich ROMANOV

In 1892, the Grand Duke Serge, a sadist and a homosexual, evicted thousand of Jewish artisans and petty traders from Moscow. Their quarter was surrounded by mounted Cossacks in the middle of the night while policeman ransacked every house. When his brother, Tsar Alexander III was given a report on this event he wrote on the margin: "We must never forget that it was the Jews who crucified our Lord and spilled his priceless blood". Serge was the Governor of Moscow. The Grand Duke was assassinated by a terrorist's bomb. His name is sometimes shown as, Sergius. Most people he came into contact with found him stupid, stubborn, supercilious and insufferable with a reputation for tyranny and disagreeableness.

Elizabeth "ELLA" Grand Duchess

Grand Duchess Elizabeth was murdered by the Bolsheviks
and thrown down an abandoned mine shaft (presumably alive).
The couple remained childless.

Henry WENTWORTH Sir

1 UPDA
2 PLAC Acceded: Nettlestead, Suffolk

John SHEFFIELD

1 UPDA
2 PLAC Duke of Normanby.