#Kira kirillovna

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Series: Viktoria Feodorovna with her daughters Maria and Kira.

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CHILDREN OF PRINCESS VICTORIA MELITA OF EDINBURGH 🥺💙✨️🫶

Princess Victoria Melita (25 November 1876 – 2 March 1936) was the second daughter and third child of Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia! She was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria from her English father's side and Tsar Alexander II's granddaughter from her Russian mother's side. She is famous for her divorce and remarriage scandals!

In 1894, at the age of 18, at the suggestion of her grandmother, Queen Victoria, she married her cousin, Prince Ernest of Hesse and by Rhine! Between 1895 and 1900, Victoria Melita and Ernest had 2 children:

Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) affectionately known as "Ella"!

a stillborn son (25 May 1900 - 25 May 1900) who died in the womb of his mother In 1900, Victoria Melita gave birth to a stillborn son, which was very disappointing for Queen Victoria!

In 1901, Princess Victoria Melita and Ernest divorced because they had an unhappy and incompatible marriage. They were first cousins who married under family pressure, but they soon realized that they had nothing in common Princess Victoria was in love with another cousin, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, while Ernest was rumored to be a homosexual.

Princess Victoria Melita had a complicated and tragic relationship with her daughter Princess Elisabeth... She was fond of her daughter, but she was not very involved in her upbringing.

Princess Victoria Melita's relationship with her daughter Princess Elisabeth was strained after the divorce. Princess Elisabeth blamed her mother for the divorce and resented her for leaving her father. Princess Victoria tried to reconnect with her daughter during her visits, but she was only partially successful. Princess Elisabeth was very close to her father and preferred to stay with him at Wolfsgarten, where he built her a small house of her own in the woods. Princess Victoria and Princess Elisabeth never had a chance to fully reconcile, as Princess Elisabeth died of typhoid fever in 1903, at the age of eight. It was a tragic loss for both parents, who loved their little daughter dearly.

Victoria melita later wrote in her memoirs: "My little Ella was taken from me. She was the joy of my life and I never really recovered from this loss."

Victoria melita's memories of her daughter were mostly sad and bitter, but she also cherished some happy moments they shared. She remembered how Ella loved animals and nature, and how she enjoyed playing in the woods near Wolfsgarten, where Ernest built her a small house of her own. She also remembered how Ella had a sweet and gentle personality, and how she looked like a fairy with her Dark hair and blue eyes... Two years after the death of her daughter Elizabeth, in 1905 she married her cousin and long-term lover Kirill Vladimirovich! In 1907, Victoria Melita and Kirill welcomed their first child, a daughter named Marie. Marie was named after her maternal grandmother! In 1909, Kirill and Victoria Melita welcomed their second child, a daughter named Kira! And in 1917, Kirill and Victoria Melita welcomed their third and last child, a son named Vladimir, The birth was so difficult and painful that 41-year-old Victoria Melita went near death during the birth of Vladimir! Princess Victoria Melita had 3 children from her second marriage who survived to adulthood and married and all had children. Despite the birth of three more children, Princess Victoria Melita never forgot her little Elizabeth and always kept a portrait of her in her room until her death in 1936...

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Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia with her daughter Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

Russian vintage postcard

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Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with her daughters Maria and Kira.

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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, 1920s.

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✵ May 4, 1938 ✵

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia & Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

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Paternal cousins Princess Theodora of Greece & Denmark, Margravine of Baden and Princess Olga of Greece & Denmark, Princess Paul of Yugoslavia chatting with Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Princess of Prussia at the wedding ball of  Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and Countess Helene zu Törring-Jettenbach, 1956.

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Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich with his wife Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna and two of their children, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich in exile, early 1930.

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Kira Kirillovna with her husband Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and his grandfather, Kaiser Wilhelm.

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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Princess of Prussia.

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Princess Kira Kirillovna, 1913 (?)

The original b/w is a cropped version of @romanovsonelastdance ‘s postcard

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Queen Marie of Romania with her daughter, Princess Ileana and niece, Princess Kira Kirillovna, c. 1922.

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Queen Marie of Romania with her daughters Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, Princess Ileana of Romania (future Archduchess of Austria) and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna

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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna