I am very interested on the memoires of Grand Duke Kirill, when did he write those, and are they good, or is he just defending why he proclaimed himself head of the imperial house while the dowager-empress was still living?
Does it contain a lot of information about his mother, Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, and do you know if he or his mother had any contact with the dutch court? GD Marie Pavlovna was a half-sister of Prince Hendrik...
Helena
I don't think Kirill had a ghost writer ... and there was no need to defend himself in becoming the head of the imperial family ... the Fundamental laws make that clear. Kirill was next in the line of succession after Grand Duke Michael ... and once Michael was dead, Kirill became second in line - and a month later, he succeeded as tsar ...
The book is about his family and his life = rather personalized. Took me years to find the book.
Marlene
Helena
prince Hendrik went to GD Maria Pavlovna's burial in France(read the entertaining "Dancing in St Petersbourg" by the famous ballet dancer who had been a mistress of the last Czar, Mathilde Kreszinski, wife of GD Andrew)
I can post here the message of congratulations Queen Willelmina sent to GD Wladmir when he got married to princess Leonida in 1948. She was quite affectionate to him
Alberto
Really? I always thought that there was (almost) no contact between the Ornage-Nassau's and the Romanovs after King Willem III died, but it seems that I am wrong.
If it would not be to much trouble for you, could you please sent the message of Queen Wilhelmina? Thank you.
Helena
Hello,
Three more titles :
"The Flight of the Romanovs" by John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov (available on Amazon)
"Natalie Paley, une princesse déchirée" (in French) by Jean-Noël Liaut (out of print)
"Souvenirs de Russie 1916-1919" (in French) by Princess Paley (available on www.alapage.com)
About the Ferrand's books, the language must NOT prevent you to buy them as they are wonderful and the legends under the photographs are not difficult to understand...
Well, about Prince Michel de Grèce and his last book, he is not the first to have discovered that Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovitch had a descendance in Russia. Jacques Ferrand did it about ten years ago (and maybe someone before him) ! In "The flight of the Romanovs" I saw for the first time two photographs on Princess Iskander.