Grand Duchess Marie

Great-granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II (1818 - 1881), Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) (1824 - 1880), Prince Albert (1819-1861) and Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Great-niece of Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) and King George of Greece (1845-1913).

Granddaughter of Czar Aleksandr III (1845 - 1894), the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorova (1847-1928), Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837-1892) and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843 - 1878).

Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (1868 - 1918) and Tsarina Alexandra (1872 - 1918).

Niece of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869-1870), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-1899), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875-1960), Grand Duke Michael (1878 - 1918), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882-1960), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950 ), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864-1918), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866-1953), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868-1937), Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870-1873) and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874-1878).

Granddaughter of Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia (1876-1936).

Younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga (1895 - 1918), Grand Duchess Tatiana (1897 - 1918) and older sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia (1901 - 1918 ) and Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov (1904- 1918).

Her Imperial Highness, The Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Romanova was born on June 26, 1899. She was the third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. She had two older sisters - Olga and Tatiana, one younger sister - Anastasia, and one younger brother Alexei. Maria's siblings usually called her Marie or Mashka. She was the angel of the family, and she was very loving and warm. She said that she wanted to marry a Russian soldier and have 20 children. She was a pretty girl with light brown hair and large blue eyes, which her family called "Marie's saucers. " Maria was pretty close to her younger sister Anastasia, who were known as "The Little Pair", while her older sisters Olga and Tatiana, were called "The Big Pair. " As well as their older sisters, they shared a bedroom and Maria tended to be dominated by Anastasia because of her energy and enthusiasm. Maria's other sisters referred to her as their "stepsister" because she was so good and never got into trouble. Maria was a plump girl in her childhood but she became very thin after the attack of measles she and her siblings had. When her father abdicated, for himself and for Alexei, Maria and her family were prisoners of the Revolution, in Tobolsk. After that, Maria, her father and mother went to Ekaterinburg, leaving her sisters - Tatiana, Olga and Anastasia - with her younger brother Alexei who got very hurt. After Alexei was well enough to be moved, Olga, Tatiana, Anastasia, Alexei and some of their employees went to Ekaterinburg, to be with Maria and their parents. In Ekaterinburg the Romanovs lived in a place called "The House of Special Purpose. " Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia all shared one room, while her father, mother, and Alexei shared another.

Second cousin of Irina Yusupova (1915 -1983), Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia ( 1919 - 2000), Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia 1920 - 2008), Prince Andrew Romanov (b. 1923), Princess Olga Romanoff (b. 1950), Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia (1924 - 2008), Princess Irene Feodorovna ( (b. 1934), Prince Nikita Romanov (1923 - 2007), Prince Alexander Romanov ( (1929 - 2002), Princess Nadejda Dmitrievna (1933 - 2002), Prince Rostislav Romanov (1938-1999), Prince Nicholas Rostislavovich ((1945 - 2000), Princess Marina Vasilievna (b. 1940), Olga Kulikovsky (b. 1964), Xenia Kulikovsky (b. 1941), Leonid Kulikovsky (1943-2015), Alexander Kulikovsky (b. 1948), Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905 - 1981), Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906-1969), Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911 - 1937), Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914 - 2001), Prince Philip (b. 1921), stillborn (1925-1925), Lady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten (1917 - 1988), David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919 - 1970), Patricia Mountbatten (1924 - 2017), Lady Pamela Hicks (b. 1929), Princess Barbara of Prussia (1920 - 1994) and Prince Alfred Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Conrad of Prussia (1924 - 2013).

Daughter of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917 -1992) and Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani (1914-2010).

Third cousin of Countess Xenia Nikolaevna Sheremeteva (b. 1942), Prince Alexis Andreevich Romanov (b. 1953), Prince Peter Andreevich Romanov (b. 1961), Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanov (b. 1963), Nicholas Mathew (b. 1976), Francis Mathew (b. 1979), Alexandra Mathew (b. 1981), Thomas Mathew (1987 - 1989), Prince Michael Mihailovich (1959 - 2001), Joelle Soulas (b. 1966), Alain Pelle (b. 1956), Prince Fedor Nikitich Romanoff (1974-2007), Théodore Nikitich de Russie (1974-2007,), Penelope Allen (b. 1953), Marina Allen (b. 1955), Alexandra Allen (b. 1958 ), Princess Stephena Rostislavovna Romanov (b. 1963), Princess Alexandra Rostislavovna Romanov (b. 1983), Prince Rostislav Romanov (b. 1985), Prince Nikita Rostislavovich Romanov (b. 1987), Nicolas Romanov (b. 1968), Daniel Romanov (b. 1972), Heather Romanov (b. 1976), Tatiana Beadleston (b. 1968) Alexandra Beadleston (b. 1970) Nicholas Beadleston (b. 1971) Natalie Beadleston (b. 1976), Peter Cordeiro (b. 1994), Paul Kulikovsky (b.1960), Vivian Larsen ( b. 1962), Peter Larsen (b. 1966), Vibeke Nielsen (b. 1981), Stillborn (1933-1933), Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1935 - 2004), Princess Beatrix Alice Marie Melita Margarete of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1936 - 1997), Prince Georg Andreas Heinrich of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1938), Prince Rupprecht Sigismund Philipp Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1944 - 1978), Prince Albrecht Wolfgang Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1944 - 1992), Princess Margarita of Baden (1932 - 2013), Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (b. 1933), Prince Ludwig Wilhelm Georg Ernst Christoph of Baden (b. 1937), Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine (1931 - 1937), Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1933-1937), Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine (1936 - 1939), Stillborn (1937-1937), Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (1933 - 2011), Princess Dorothea of Hesse (b. 1934), Prince Karl of Hesse (b. 1937), Prince Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse (b. 1939), Princess Clarissa Alice of Hesse (b. 1944), Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover (b. 1947 - 1981), Prince Georg of Hanover (b. 1949), Princess Friederike of Hanover ((b. 1954), Prince Charles (b. 1948), Princess Anne (b. 1950), Prince Andrew (b. 1960) and Prince Edward (b. 1964).

Until his own assassination in 1979, her first cousin, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, kept a photograph of Maria beside his bed in memory of the crush he had upon her.

Fifth Cousin Victoria Marie Esmé Margarita de Silva (b. 1991), Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, b. 1993), Prince George of Cambridge (b. 2013), Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (b. 2015), Prince Louis of Cambridge (b. 2018 ), Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (b. 2019), Savannah Anne Kathleen Phillips (b. 2010), Isla Elizabeth Phillips (b. 2012), Mia Grace Tindall (b. 2014) and Lena Elizabeth Tindall (b. 2018).

6th Cousin Louis Ivan Welf Otto Hooper (b. 2007), Konstantin Georg Erik Falk (b. 2007), Leopold Welf Christian Falk, (b. 2009).