Sophie of Prussia Queen of Greece
aka: Sophie of Prussia.
Charlotte of Saxe- Meiningen Duchess
Charlotte, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen.
Princess Margarete Frederick-Charles of Hesse.
Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse. Ernest Louis, Reigning Grand Duke of Hesse.
His death is listed as 1937 according to J. Packard in the Queen and Her Court.
Death as 37 in Royal Web by Ladislas Farago and Andrew Sinclair.
Victoria Melita of Edinburgh Grand Duchess
Victoria, (1) Grand Duchess Ernest of Hesse (2) Grand Duchess Cyrill of Russia.
Divorced in 1901. Married 2nd time in 1905. Victoria Melita was married first
to a nobleman from the bottomless reservoir of minor German royalty, Ernst
Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse. But it was an unhappy union which soon ended in
divorce. He eye then lighted on her first cousin Kirill, the son of her
mother's brother Vladimir; The couple were witness events that lead to the
1917 Revolution in St. Petersburg after being banished from Russia by Nicholas
II (a member of his Imperial family had married a divorced woman without the
Tzar's permission). Aka: Victoria Feodorovna. They spent some time in exile
in Finland; finally settled in France where her husband tried to revive the
Russian Monarch proclaiming his right to the throne.
Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse. Ernest Louis, Reigning Grand Duke of Hesse.
His death is listed as 1937 according to J. Packard in the Queen and Her Court.
Death as 37 in Royal Web by Ladislas Farago and Andrew Sinclair.
Serge Alexandrovich ROMANOV Grand Duke
In 1892, the Grand Duke Serge, a sadist and a homosexual, evicted thousand of
Jewish artisans and petty traders from Moscow. Their quarter was surrounded by
mounted Cossacks in the middle of the night while policeman ransacked every
house. When his brother, Tsar Alexander III was given a report on this event
he wrote on the margin: "We must never forget that it was the Jews who
crucified our Lord and spilled his priceless blood". Serge was the Governor of
Moscow. The Grand Duke was assassinated by a terrorist's bomb. His name is
sometimes shown as, Sergius. Most people he came into contact with found him
stupid, stubborn, supercilious and insufferable with a reputation for tyranny
and disagreeableness.
Elizabeth "Ella" Grand Duchess
Princess Elizabeth of Hesse. Elizabeth, Grand Duchess Sergius of Russia.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth was murdered by the Bolsheviks and thrown down an
abandoned mine shaft (presumably alive). The couple remained childless.
Ferdinand I of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen HOHENZOLLERN King of Romania
Ferdinand, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1914-1927 King of Romania)
Because King Carol had no male heirs, he named Ferdinand (1889) heir
presumptive to the Romanian throne. After WWI his reign was marked by
unsuccessful attempts at land reforms and by a problem of royal succession
because of the relations of his son (later King Carol II) with a commoner.
Marie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Queen of Romania
Marie, Queen of Romania.
Victoria Melita of Edinburgh Grand Duchess
Victoria, (1) Grand Duchess Ernest of Hesse (2) Grand Duchess Cyrill of Russia.
Divorced in 1901. Married 2nd time in 1905. Victoria Melita was married first
to a nobleman from the bottomless reservoir of minor German royalty, Ernst
Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse. But it was an unhappy union which soon ended in
divorce. He eye then lighted on her first cousin Kirill, the son of her
mother's brother Vladimir; The couple were witness events that lead to the
1917 Revolution in St. Petersburg after being banished from Russia by Nicholas
II (a member of his Imperial family had married a divorced woman without the
Tzar's permission). Aka: Victoria Feodorovna. They spent some time in exile
in Finland; finally settled in France where her husband tried to revive the
Russian Monarch proclaiming his right to the throne.
Alexandra, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.