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Maria's brother, King George I, and his wife, Queen Olga, would come up from Athens with their children, and the Princess of Wales, often without her husband, would come with some of her children from the United Kingdom. In contrast to the tight security observed in Russia, the tsar, tsarina and their children relished the relative freedom that ...
Maria Feodorovna was a considerate, loving mother who managed to maintain genuinely close relationships with all her children despite the fact that Catherine II took over her two eldest sons in their early years.
They married in October 1866, [7] and Dagmar took the name Maria Feodorovna after converting to Russian Orthodoxy. [7] [21] Maria and Alexander would go on to have six children together, one of whom, Alexander, did not survive past infancy. [7] Maria adored and spoiled her surviving children, especially Nicholas. [7]
She was the elder daughter among the six children of the Tsesarevich Alexander and his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark). After the assassination of her paternal grandfather Tsar Alexander II of Russia (13 March [ O.S. 1 March] 1881), when Xenia was five years old, her father ascended to the ...
Princess Dagmar's birthplace, Charlottenlund Palace, photographed in 2006 Princess Dagmar was born on 23 May 1890 at her parents' country residence, the Charlottenlund Palace north of Copenhagen, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King Christian IX. [1]
Paul I of Russia and his consort Maria Feodorovna, via nine children that lived to adulthood, had 30 legitimate grandchildren.. Moreover, through their grandchildren, Paul and Maria are ancestors of many European royals, including Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Felipe VI of Spain, Charles III of the United Kingdom, and Frederik X of Denmark.
Maria Feodorovna was the name taken by two distinct Russian empresses of originally German and Danish ethnicity: . Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) (1759–1828), daughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg; wife of Emperor Paul I of Russia
When Lily fell ill in 1876, Count Vorontsov-Dashkov refused to serve to stay with his wife, and informed Maria Feodorovna by telegrams about the progress of the recovery. Illarion and Lily had eight children: Ivan "Vanya" Vorontsov-Dashkov (29 April 1868 - 8 December 1897), who married Varvara Orlova and had three children. His son Illarion ...