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Grand Duke George Mikhailovich with his wife and two daughters. On 30 April 1900 at Corfu, Grand Duke George married Princess Maria, daughter of King George I of the Hellenes and Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia. Maria was George's paternal first cousin once removed.
George was born in Madrid in 1981, the son of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (daughter and heir of Vladimir Cyrillovich, Grand Duke of Russia [3] [2]) and her husband Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (titled at the time Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich, [4] [1] son of Prince Karl Franz of Prussia and Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath).
Nadejda Mikhailovna Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (née Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby, until 1917 Princess George of Battenberg; 28 March 1896 – 22 January 1963), was a member of the Russian imperial family who married a German prince but became a British subject and aristocrat.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia: 23 August 1863: 28 January 1919: Married 1900 (12 May), Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark (1876–1940); 2 daughters. He was killed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian revolution. Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia: 13 April 1866: 26 February 1933: Married 1894 (6 August),
Grand Duke George was a devoted father, and the two sisters were close to him, but Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna never liked Russia and eventually became estranged from her husband. In June 1914, Maria took her two daughters to England on the pretext of improving their health; in reality, she wanted to be separated from her husband.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia is the son and heir of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, the disputed head of the House of Romanov, [1] and Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia. [2] He is the great-grandson of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and a great-great-great-grandson of Alexander II of Russia. [2] [3]
George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov (Russian: Георгий Михайлович, граф Брасов; 6 August [O.S. 24 July] 1910 – 21 July 1931) was a Russian noble and a descendant of the House of Romanov through a morganatic line.
Irina Mikhailovna Raievskya (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Раевская; 18 August 1892 – 22 January 1955), was a Russian and German noble.She was Duchess of Mecklenburg by her marriage to her second husband, George, Duke of Mecklenburg (German: Georg Herzog zu Mecklenburg), who was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1934 until his death in 1963. [1]