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la-belle-histoire · 3 months

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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, 1920s.

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postcard-from-the-past · 3 months

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Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia with her daughter Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

Russian vintage postcard

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romanovsonelastdance · 3 months

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Romanov relatives: Nicolae, Maria and Ileana of Romania.

Younger siblings of OTMA suitor Prince Carol, they were related to OTMAA through both the British and Russian lines via their mother Queen Marie, eldest daughter of Prince Alfred and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna. They were also first cousins of Maria Kirillovna, Kira Kirillovna, and Vladimir Kirillovich.

#romanov relatives #romanian royal family #nicolae of romania #nicholas of romania #maria of romania #mignon of romania #ileana of romania #my collection

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europesroyalsweddings · 10 months

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✵ May 4, 1938 ✵

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia & Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

#royal wedding #royal wedding dress #german royalty #german royal family

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drosera-nepenthes · 2 years

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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna

#Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna #1920s #romanov #russian royal family #rrpp #postcard

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princessvictoriamelita · 2 years

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Queen Marie of Romania with her daughter, Princess Ileana and niece, Princess Kira Kirillovna, c. 1922.

#princess ileana of romania #queen marie of romania #princess kira kirillovna #grand duchess kira kirillovna #grand duchess kira kirillovna of russia #1920s #1922

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pokadandelion · 2 years

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Queen Marie of Romania with her daughters Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, Princess Ileana of Romania (future Archduchess of Austria) and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna

#queen marie of romania #queen maria of yugoslavia #archduchess ileana of austria #grand duchess kira kirillovna #romanian royal family #yugoslav royal family #austrian imperial family #german imperial family #prussian royal family #romanian history #yugoslav history #german history #house of hohe. sigmaringen #house of karadordevic #house of habsburg #house of hohenzollern

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thepompandcircumstance · 4 years

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Paternal cousins Princess Theodora of Greece & Denmark, Margravine of Baden and Princess Olga of Greece & Denmark, Princess Paul of Yugoslavia chatting with Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Princess of Prussia at the wedding ball of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and Countess Helene zu Törring-Jettenbach, 1956.

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tiny-librarian · 5 years

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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Princess of Prussia.

#Kira Kirillovna #grand duchess #prussia #romanov dynasty #romanov #long live the queue

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charlotteelizabeths · 7 years

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#RoyalTiaraChallenge17

Favourite Meander Tiara

The Prussian Meander Tiara

#RoyalTiaraChallenge17 #Crown Princess Cecille #Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna #Princess Sophie #Prussian Royal Family #Germa Imperial Family

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aeonpath-blog · 6 years

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#princess victoria melita #grand duchess victoria feodorovna #princess maria kirillovna #princess kira kirillovna #romanov #russian royal family #1910s

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nanshe-of-nina · 3 years

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Women of the House of Romanov, part IV

Princesses Tatiana and Vera Konstantinovna: Daughters of Grand Duke Konstantin and Elisabeth von Sachsen-Altenburg. Mother of Natalia Bagration of Mukhrani.

Princesses Marina and Nadezhda Petrovna: Daughters of Grand Duke Pytor Nikolayevich and Milica Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro.

Princess Irina Aleksandrovna: Daughter of Grand Duke Aleksandr Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Kseniya Aleksandrovna. Mother of Princess Irina Feliksovna Yusupova.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: Daughter of Tsar Nikolai II and Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolayevna: Daughter of Tsar Nikolai II and Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt.

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna: Daughter of Tsar Nikolai II and Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna: Daughter of Tsar Nikolai II and Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt.

Princesses Nina and Kseniya Georgievna: Daughters of Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich of Russia and Maria of Greece and Denmark.

Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna: Daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Mother of Kira zu Leiningen, Margarita zu Leiningen, and Mechtilde zu Leiningen.

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna: Daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Mother of Marie-Cécilie von Preußen, Kira von Preußen, and Xenia von Preußen.

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romanovsonelastdance · 11 months

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I read in Wikipedia that Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna's "grand manner" irritated some people at court, Why? Is this grand manner happens to be something of her being ambitious? The Dowager Empress wrote that Elena "has a very brusque and arrogant tone that can shock people."

Elena Vladimirovna was raised to be a Grand Duchess and knew it. She had a sense of her place at the top of society and expected to be treated as such. Yes, she worked hard for charity at various times in her life and was a devoted friend and benefactor to the nannies in her life (both the one who raised her, Millicent Crofts, and the one who raised her daughters, Kate Fox), but she had a bit of an attitude.

Allegedly she looked down on Alice of Battenberg for being 'only' a Serene Highness and born to a morganatic (unequal) branch of the family. She's quoted as saying "I like snobs -- they're the only people who take me seriously."

Everyone was worried when she got engaged to "Greek Nicky" because the Greek and Danish side of the family was famously down-to-earth and silly and the Vladimirs were haughty snobs. People didn't think it would work out. But it did.

She tried to find grand matches for her daughters, even dragging Elizabeth to Italy one summer in hopes that the Crown Prince would fall for her and she could become a queen. Marina, for all her charm, seemed to have inherited a bit of this: she is quoted as referring to her sisters-in-law the Queen Mother and Alice, Duchess of Gloucester as "common Scotch girls" and bragged once about having "not one drop of common blood."

Ellen could be catty, too; there are letters to Kate Fox where she describes her nieces Maria and Kira Kirillovna in unflattering terms (how they were spoiled by their parents and allowed to snack at all hours, the horror!) and compared them unfavorably to her own daughters, "in terms of beauty they should not be mentioned in the same breath as our babies." Marina and Olga, too, would make comments like this to each other in Greek about other people, assuming no one could understand them. This is according to their children/nieces/nephews. Allegedly Elizabeth was the 'nicest' and least likely to indulge in that sort of behavior.

But Ellen loved her husband and her daughters, she loved "Milly" and "Kate" and did her best to provide for all of them even with the limited funds she had available to her after the Russian Revolution. The letter I have, from 1939, shows her being upset that Milly was not getting the money she was supposed to be getting and trying to set that right. She did a lot of charity work for Russian exiles, and while she was keen on her daughters making good marriages, in her circle that was the best way to ensure they would be taken care of--neither the Greek side of the family nor, after 1917, the Russian had that much money. A good marriage to a rich, royal husband would be the best thing for the girls in Ellen's mind, and not just for snobbish reasons.

She was a Grand Duchess and an Imperial Highness and she carried herself as one; we read stories about OTMA being embarrassed by their titles at times. Elena was raised to be proud of hers.

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europesroyalsweddings · 2 years

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✵ May 4, 1938 ✵

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia & Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

#germany #german royalty #German royal family #Russian Royal Family #Royal Wedding

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annalaurendet70 · 3 years

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* Extended Family to the Romanovs *

Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia.

Born Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on 20 September 1886 as the third child and second daughter to Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna Romanova of Russia and Frederick Francis IlI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Cecilie was the last German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia as the wife of German Crown Prince Wilhelm, the son of German Emperor Wilhelm I who she married on 6 June 1905.Before that, after the death of her father, she traveled every summer between 1898 and 1904 to her mother's native Russia. For Cecilie, with strong family links to the Russian court through her mother, the Russian Revolution of March 1917 greatly affected her. Her uncles, Grand Dukes Nikolai, Georgij and Sergei Michailovich Romanov of Russia were all murdered.

📌 Tsar Nicholas Il's father, Tsar Alexander III and her mother were cousins.

📌 Empress Alexandra Feodorovna were cousins with her father-in-law.

📌 Her paternal aunt is the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova of Russia (the Elder)

📌 One of her paternal half-uncles is the husband of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

📌 One of her daughter-in-law was Princess Kira Kirillovna Romanova of Russia

📌 Her sister-in-law was Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland, niece of Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom.Maternal first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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princessvictoriamelita · 2 years

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Prussian Royal Family in 1939.

Back row: Prince Hubertus, Crown Prince Wilhelm and Prince Louis Ferdinand.

Front row: Crown Princess Cecilie, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna holding baby Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and Princess Cecilie.

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