#Kira kirillovna romanova

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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, 1920s.

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* Extended Family to the Romanovs *

Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia.

Born Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on 20 September 1886 as the third child and second daughter to Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna Romanova of Russia and Frederick Francis IlI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Cecilie was the last German Crown Princess and Crown Princess of Prussia as the wife of German Crown Prince Wilhelm, the son of German Emperor Wilhelm I who she married on 6 June 1905.Before that, after the death of her father, she traveled every summer between 1898 and 1904 to her mother's native Russia. For Cecilie, with strong family links to the Russian court through her mother, the Russian Revolution of March 1917 greatly affected her. Her uncles, Grand Dukes Nikolai, Georgij and Sergei Michailovich Romanov of Russia were all murdered.

📌 Tsar Nicholas Il's father, Tsar Alexander III and her mother were cousins.

📌 Empress Alexandra Feodorovna were cousins ​​with her father-in-law.

📌 Her paternal aunt is the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova of Russia (the Elder)

📌 One of her paternal half-uncles is the husband of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

📌 One of her daughter-in-law was Princess Kira Kirillovna Romanova of Russia

📌 Her sister-in-law was Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland, niece of Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom.Maternal first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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The Vladimirovichii sub group of the Alexandrovichii part of the Romanovs.

Top Row Left to Right : Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich Romanov of Russia,Prince Nikolaus of Greece and Denmark,Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova of Russia (the Elder),Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov of Russia,Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich Romanov of Russia.

Middle Row Left to Right : Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark,Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna Romanova/Princes Nicolaus of Greece and Denmark,Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark,Princess Maria Kirillovna Romanova of Russia,Grand Duchess Viktoria Feodorovna Romanova of Russia,Princess Kira Kirillovna Romanova of Russia.

Front : Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark.

📌 Prince Nicolaus of Greece and Denmark's mother was born Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna Romanova of Russia and his father was born as the second brother of Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia.

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Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna Romanova,Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with six of her grandsons :

•Prince Frederick of Denmark (the eldest boy in sailor top) the future King Frederick lX of Denmark,father of the present Queen of Denmark,Margarethe

•Prince Knud of Denmark (the older boy in sailor top)

•Prince Wilhelm of Prussia

•Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia who later married Princess Kira Kirillovna Romanova of Russia,daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov of Russia and Grand Duchess Viktoria Feodorovna Romanova of Russia.

•Prince Hubertus of Prussia

•Prince Friedrich Georg of Prussia.