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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.
Two years, two months and two days later on 22 August 1903, she had her second daughter and last child Princess Xenia Georgievna. [43] Shortly after Xenia's birth, Grand Duchess Maria's father in law became paralyzed by a stroke and moved permanently to the south of France to recover. [43]
Within Christian and Louise's family, Thyra was called the "gentle and good daughter" by her father. In addition, Alexandra and Dagmar were respectively seen as the "pretty" and "clever" girls. [9] In contrast, Christian rejected Frederick, then Crown Prince of Denmark, because of their contrasting conservative and reformist mindsets ...
After 1917, no such daughter was born into the deposed imperial house who would have been entitled to the title grand duchess - i.e., had been a male-line granddaughter of a reigning emperor; although such would have been technically possible, as there lived sons of reigning emperors and their daughters would have been so entitled.
Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia (22 August 1903 – 17 September 1965); married, firstly, in 1921, William Bateman Leeds, Jr., son of Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark; they divorced in 1930. Married, secondly, in 1946, Herman Jud. Xenia's only daughter, Nancy Leeds (1925–2006), married Edward Judson Wynkoop, Jr.
Her father remarried and Xenia had one half sister, Olga Andreevna. Princess Xenia, called "Mysh" in the family, [1] was educated privately. For much of her childhood, she lived in the household of her grandmother Grand Duchess Xenia at Frogmore House, a grace-and-favour house in Windsor Great Park, provided by King George V. She also spent ...
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Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875–1960), sister of Tsar Nicholas II; Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia (1903–1965), daughter of Grand Duke George Mihailovich of Russia; Princess Xenia of Montenegro (1887–1960), daughter of Nicholas I of Montenegro; Xenia of Yaroslavl (died c. 1290), regent of Yaroslavl