Francis, Duke of Teck
Family: Mary Adelaide "Fat Mary"
NOTES: Francis, Duke of Teck was a morganatic scion of the Royal House of Wurttemberg. a.k.a.: Francis, Prince and (1871) 1st Duke of Teck. Victoria Mary Louisa
Family 1: Prince Emich Karl of Leiningen
Family 2: Edward Augustus HANOVER, Duke of Kent
NOTES: Widow of Emich Charles, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763-1814) and fourth dau. of Francis Frederick Anthony, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf. |
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NOTES: Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
NOTES: Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
George IV HANOVER, King of England
Family 1: Maria Anne FITZHERBERT
Family 2: Caroline Amelia of Brunswick
NOTES: The eldest son of George III, Geroge IV (as the Prince of Wales) became notorious for his profligacy and extravagance. Despite his father's strongly anti-Catholic views, he secretly married a Roman Catholic, Mrs. Maria Anne Fitzherbert (1756-1837) in 1785. Less than two years later, to obtain money for his debts, he allowed Parliament to declare the marriage illegal, which in fact it was by the terms of acts governing royal marriages and succession. In 1795, again to liquidate his debts, he agreed to a marriage with his cousin, Caroline of Brunswick, but he became estranged from her in 1796 after the birth of their daughter, Princess Charlotte (1796-1817). George became the Prince Regent in 1811, when his father became mentally unable to discharge his duties and succeeded to the throne in 1820. |
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NOTES: Mrs. Maria Anne Fitzherbert, a Roman Catholic
NOTES: Caroline of Brunswick was George IV's cousin. a.k.a.: Caroline, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel; a.k.a.: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth
NOTES: Died in childbirth
NOTES: Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Viscount Lyon and Baron Glamis, Tannadyce, Sidlaw and Strathdichtie, Baron Bowes of Streatlam Castle, County Durham and Lunedale, County York.
NOTES: Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady Glamis; Countess of Strathmore. Christened: Nina Cecilia but known as Cecilia to the family. Source: Queen Elizabeth, A Portrait of the Queen Mother by Penelope Mortimer.
Vladimir ROMANOV, Grand Duke
Family: Marie PAVLOVNA, Grand Duchess
Alexis ROMANOV, Grand Duke
NOTES: Alexis achieved a great success in the United States when he visited this country and among other things went hunting in the West with Buffalo Bill, to the delight of American cartoonists. |
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NOTES: 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.
NOTES: Grand Duke Paul. Nicholas II's uncle who was assassinated by the Bolsheviks.
NOTES: Brother of Nicholas II. The Grand Duke George finally died at 27 of tuberculosis, in the summer of 1899. According to his sister Olga, George was found by a peasant woman at the side of a road, lying beside his overturned motorcycle. He died in the peasant woman's arms bleeding at the mouth and coughing and gasping for air.
NOTES: Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of Tsar Nicholas II. She escaped Russia on a British warship and lived her last twenty-five years in a "grace and favor" mansion provided by the British royal family and named (perhaps appropriately) Wilderness House. She died at eighty-five.
NOTES: The Tsar's younger brother, Grand Duke Michael. Mischa, as he was know to his family, was shot in Perm by the Bolsheviks.
NOTES: Grand Duchess Olga escaped Russia on board a British warship. Olga, Nicholas II's youngest sister lived quietly in Denmark until 1948, when she moved to a small farm outside Toronto, Canada. There, she lived in such peaceful obscurity that her rural neighbors were much surprised in 1959 when she was invited to lunch aboard the royal yacht Britannia with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. In 1960, Olga became too ill to live alone and went to live with a Russian couple in an apartment over a barbershop in a poor section of East Toronto. There in November 1960, seven months after her sister Xenia, she died at seventy-eight. She remained childless from her first marriage. He husband in 1948 was listed as Colonel Koulikovsky; they retired to a farm in Canada. Some biographical information from the book, "The Last Grand Duchess" Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, by Ian Vorres.
NOTES: The former Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Became the Grand Duchess Vladimir.
NOTES: 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.
NOTES: Noted only for his indolent and dissipated life as a bachelor in and about St. Petersburg.
NOTES: Andrew Vladimirovich was rated "gifted, intelligent and a hard worker" by the court doctor.
Frederick William III, King of Prussia
Family 1: Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Family 2: Auguste VON HARRACHNOTES: Frederick William III, King of Prussia; Reign: 1797-1840; Princess Alexandra of Greece
Family: Paul Alexandrovich ROMANOV, Grand Duke
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NOTES: Dmitri was one of the Grand Dukes who plotted against and killed the religious fanatic monk, Rasputin. After the Revolution of 1918, Dmitri, sometimes a champagne salesman but more usually a dashing figure in international social circles, was the last truly, grand duke.
NOTES: Prince Felix Yussoupov murdered Rasputin. Prince Felix and his wife, Princess Irina, have lived mostly in Paris where the Yussoupov's generosity to other Russian emigres has become legend. Two famous court cases have brought the Yussoupov name back into prominence. The first occurred in 1934, when Princess Irina sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel in London over a movie titled, "Rasputin the Mad Monk". The Yussoupovs won this case and MGM paid them $375,000. In 1965, Prince Yussoupov came to New York City to sue the Columbia Broadcasting System for invasion of privacy over a television play depicting the murder of Rasputin. This time, the Yussoupovs lost. Prince Yussoupov at seventy-nine lived in the Paris district of Auteuil in a small house converted from a barn.
NOTES: Sarah was popularly known as "Fergie" in the tabloids. She has a most charming smile and manner; very outgoing. Much was made at the size of her hips. She has red hair. She was born at 9:03 a.m., a Thursday. While by no means rich, the Fergusons were certainly comfortably well-off with the means to employ a cook, gardener, stable boy and a nanny to care for the children. The family had a pet Pekingese dog, Solly. Her father gave her the nickname, G.B.-whose initials he has refused to reveal the meaning. Her engagement was announced on 19 March 1986. She "works" for a graphic arts company.
NOTES: Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
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