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During the 1970s Xenia and Geoffrey Tooth (b. 1 September 1908) settled at Rouffignac, in the Dordogne, France. Geoffrey Tooth died in 1998. Princess Xenia Romanoff outlived her husband by two years. She died on 22 October 2000 in Saint-Cernin. Princess Xenia had no children from either of her marriages.
Xenia's younger sister, Olga, wrote about the joy of the wedding, "The Emperor was so happy. It was the last time I ever saw him like that." It was the last time I ever saw him like that." [ 12 ] They spent their wedding night at Ropsha Palace , and their honeymoon at Ai-Todor (Alexander's estate in Crimea ).
Princess Natasha Andreevna (b. 1993) Princess Olga Andreevna (b. 1950) ∞ Thomas Mathew (b. 1945) div; Prince Feodor Alexandrovich (1898-1968) ∞ Princess Irina Paley (1903-1990) div. Prince Michael Feodorovich (1924-2008) ∞ Helga Staufenberger (b. 1926) div. Prince Michael Mikhailovich (1959-2001) ≈ Maria de las Mercedes Ustrell-Cabani ...
Princess Xenia in 1915. Xenia and her older sister Princess Nina Georgievna, who was born in 1901, left Russia in 1914 to spend the war years in England with their mother. In 1919, her father, his brother Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich, and their cousins Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich, were executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in St. Petersburg.
The Russian Orthodox wedding was presided by Archimandrite Nicholas who, as Sydney Gibbes, had been tutor of the children of Tsar Nicholas II. [9] Prince Andrei had one daughter from his second marriage: Princess Olga Andreevna (b. 1950) m. 1975 Thomas Mathew (b. 1945). They had four children. [8]
Guests at the wedding commented on what an attractive couple Felix and Irina made: "What an amazing couple–they were so attractive. What bearing! What breeding!" said one guest. [10] Irina was given away by her uncle, Nicholas II, and his wedding present to her was a bag of 29 uncut diamonds, ranging from three to seven carats. [15]
Princess Xenia may refer to: ... Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia; Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia; See also. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia;
Her sister, Princess Olga Golitsyna, married Geoffrey Tooth, who would become the second husband of Vasili's niece, Princess Xenia Andreevna. [11] Princess Natalia came from one of Russia's most aristocratic families, the noble Golitsyns. Her father, Prince Alexander Golitsyn, the son of the governor of Moscow, was a country doctor. Her mother ...