Princess Luise-Dorothea of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (9 February 1924 � 11 November 1988), daughter of Prince Albrecht Ludwig Leopold Tassilo of Hohenzollern (Potsdam, 28 September 1898 � B�hl, 30 July 1977) and Ilse Margot von Friedeburg She married Egbert Count of Plettenberg on 11 June 1947. They have seven children.


Louise Henrietta of Nassau (Dutch: Louise Henri�tte van Nassau, German: Luise Henriette von Nassau)(7 December 1627 � 18 June 1667) was a Countess of Nassau, granddaughter of William I, Prince of Orange, "William the Silent", and an Electress of Brandenburg.The eldest daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. Louise Henri�tte had to abandon her love for Henri Charles de La Tr�moille, Prince of Talmant, son of Henry de La Tr�moille, as her mother had royal ambitions for her. However, attempts to conclude an engagement with King Charles II of England came to nothing. Finally she was forced to marry Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620-1688), "the Great Elector," at The Hague on 7 December 1646, her nineteenth birthday.With Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, she had six children.

Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia (Luise Dorothea Sophie)(29 September 1680 � 23 December 1705) was Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Kassel by marriage to Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel. She was the daughter of Frederick I, First King in Prussia by his first wife Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel. In 1700, she married her first cousin Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel. Frederick was King of Sweden 1720-1751 and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730-1751.During her five years of marriage, Luise Dorothea suffered from poor health. She died in childbirth. Frederick remarried to Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden, becoming her prince consort and eventual King regnant of Sweden.


Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (German: Friederike Luise von Preu�en) (29 August 1714 � 4 February 1784) was a daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover and Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach.On 30 May 1729 in Berlin, Friederike Luise married her Hohenzollern kinsman Karl Wilhelm Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (12 May 1712 � 3 August 1757). They had two children


Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (Swedish: Lovisa Ulrika; German: Luise Ulrike) (24 July 1720 � 16 July 1782) was Queen of Sweden from 1751 to 1771 as the consort of King Adolf Frederick. She was queen mother during the reign of King Gustav III.Louisa Ulrika was born in Berlin as the daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and his wife Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, and was thus a younger sister of both Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and Frederick the Great. In 1744 she married King Adolf Frederick. They had 5 children.

Charlotte is a female given name, a female form of the male name Charlot, a diminutive of Charles. It is of French origin meaning "free man" or "petite". The name dates back to at least the 14th century. Other names for Charlotte are Charlie, Lottie, Lotte, Carlota and Carlotta.

Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (Charlotte Elizabeth Diana)( born 2 May 2015) is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. She is fourth in the line of succession to the British throne


Charlotte Stuart, styled Duchess of Albany (29 October 1753 � 17 November 1789) was the illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Prince Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' or the 'Young Pretender') and his only child to survive infancy. Her mother was Clementina Walkinshaw, who was mistress to the Prince from 1752 until 1760. After years of abuse, Clementina left him, taking Charlotte with her. Charlotte spent most of her life in French convents, estranged from a father who refused to make any provision for her. Unable to marry, she herself became a mistress with illegitimate children, taking Ferdinand de Rohan, Archbishop of Bordeaux, as her lover. She was finally reconciled with her father in 1784, when he legitimised her and created her Duchess of Albany in the Jacobite Peerage. She left her own children with her mother, and became her father's carer and companion in the last years of his life, before dying less than two years after him. Her three children were raised in anonymity; however, as the only grandchildren of the pretender, they have been the subject of Jacobite interest since their lineage was uncovered in the 20th century.


Charlotte (Charlotte Adelgonde �lise/Elisabeth Marie Wilhelmine)(23 January 1896 � 9 July 1985)she was the second daughter of Grand Duke William IV and his wife, Marie Anne of Portugal. Charlotte reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1919 until her abdication in 1964. She acceded to the throne on 14 January 1919 following the abdication of her sister, Marie-Ad�la�de, due to political pressure over Marie-Ad�la�de's role during the German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I. She married Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma on 6 November 1919. They had six children.


Charlotte, Princess Royal (Charlotte Augusta Matilda)(29 September 1766 � 5 October 1828), was Queen of W�rttemberg as the wife of King Frederick I. She was the first daughter and fourth child of King George III of the United Kingdom and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1797, the Princess Royal was married to Frederick, Hereditary Prince of W�rttemberg, the eldest son and heir apparent of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of W�rttemberg and his wife, Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. The marriage between Duke Frederick and the Princess Royal produced one child: a stillborn daughter on 27 April 1798.


Charlotte of Belgium (7 June 1840 � 19 January 1927) was a Belgian princess who became Empress of Mexico when her husband accepted the Imperial Throne of Mexico and reigned as Maximilian I of Mexico. The only daughter of King Leopold I of Belgium and Louise of Orl�ans In 1857, Charlotte married her second cousin Archduke Maximilian of Austria. They had no issue. In the early 1860s, the ambitious Napoleon III initiated the French intervention in Mexico. France, eager to turn Mexico into a satellite state, searched for a suitable figurehead to serve as the nominal emperor of Mexico. His choice was Maximilian, who held no real power in Italy and was eager for a more challenging role. Against his brother's advice, Maximilian accepted the Mexican crown and the couple sailed for the New World. Only months after the coronation, however, Napoleon III began signaling his abandonment of Maximilian, and the French began to withdraw their troops from Mexico. This strategic pullback was a potentially fatal blow to the infant Mexican monarchy. Charlotte traveled to Europe to find support. With her efforts all falling to ruin Carlota began manifesting symptoms of paranoia and suffered a profound cognitive and emotional collapse. While the Empress was resting, the Emperor of Austria and the King of Belgium sent delegations to Miramare Castle. Emperor Maximilian was captured by Mexican Republican forces and executed on 19 June 1867. Now archduchess again, she was obedient to the Austrian court, and Count Karl of Bombelles tried to keep her in Miramare. Discussions between the imperial court and Brussels became more important, because of the heritage. The emperor placed Charlotte under custody of his brother Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria. The king sent his wife to Vienna to visit her cousin Emperor Franz-Josef and take care of Charlotte.Charlotte was kept under observation by a team of medical and imperial guardsHistorians think that after the death of the Emperor in Mexico, Charlotte only had the status of a rich dowager. For the Viennese court and imperial family it was in their financial interest to keep her in Miramare. When she was in Belgium the Viennese court would need to pay her dowry to Leopold in Belgium. Charlotte and her sister-in-law were allowed to go back to Belgium where the king gave her court at Bouchout Castle in Meise, Belgium. During the final years of his life the king cared for his sister. During World War I, there was fighting near Bouchout Castle. The occupying German army did not, however, enter the grounds, over which an Austro-Hungarian flag flewAs Carlota's illness progressed, her paranoia faded. She remained deeply in love with her husband. After his death, she cherished all of the surviving possessions they had enjoyed in common. Carlota died of pneumonia brought on by influenza


Charlotte of Bourbon, Queen of Cyprus (1388-1422)

Charlotte of Cyprus (1444-1487), Queen of Jerusalem and Armenia

Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria FitzRoy, Countess of Yarmouth (c. 1650 � 28 July 1684) was one of the many acknowledged illegitimate children of Charles II of England Her mother, Elizabeth Killigrew Boyle, wife of Francis Boyle (afterwards Viscount Shannon in Ireland), had been a maid of honour to Charles II's mother, Queen Henrietta Maria. Charlotte married firstly James Howard, with whom she had a daughter, Stuarta. In 1672 she married William Paston, later the second Earl of Yarmouth, a member of the Paston family, and had issue.


Lady Charlotte Paston (1675�1736), daughter of Charlotte Fitzroy and William Paston. She married Thomas Herne of Haveringland Hall, Norfolk, and had a son, Paston Herne, whose illegitimate daughter Anne Herne married Sir Everard Buckworth (later Buckworth-Herne), 5th Baronet, and was the mother of Sir Buckworth Buckworth-Herne-Soame, 6th Baronet. Lady Charlotte was also married to a Major Weldron


Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield (5 September 1664 � 17 February 1718), formerly Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England by one of his best known mistresses, Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. Known for her beauty, she was married at age 12 to her husband, Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, with whom she had a large family.


Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore (13 March 1678 Old Style � 22 January 1721 Old Style), was an English noblewoman, and granddaughter of King Charles II of England and his mistress Barbara Villiers. Daughter of Charlotte Lee and Edward Henry Lee. She married in 1699, Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, from whom she separated in 1705; she later married Christopher Crowe


Charlotte (c. 1724 � 1794),daughter of George Henry Lee I, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1690 � 15 February 1743) and Frances Hales (d. 3 February 1769), daughter of Sir John Hales, 4th Baronet of Hackington. She married Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon.


Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte)(19 May 1744 � 17 November 1818) was the wife of King George III. She was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from her wedding in 1761 until the union of the two kingdoms in 1801, after which she was queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1818. She was also the Electress consort of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire until the promotion of her husband to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814, after which she was also queen consort of Hanover. She was the youngest daughter of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708�1752; known as "Prince of Mirow") and of his wife Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713�1761) In 1761 she married George III. They had 15 children.


Charlotte, Princess Royal (Charlotte Augusta Matilda)(29 September 1766 � 5 October 1828), was Queen of W�rttemberg as the wife of King Frederick I. She was the first daughter and fourth child of King George III of the United Kingdom and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.1797, the Princess Royal was married at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, London, to Frederick, Hereditary Prince of W�rttemberg, the eldest son and heir apparent of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of W�rttemberg and his wife, Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. The marriage between Duke Frederick and the Princess Royal produced one child: a stillborn daughter on 27 April 1798.


Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (7 January 1796 � 6 November 1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV), and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick. Had she outlived both her grandfather King George III and her father, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom; but she died at the age of 21, predeceasing them both. In 1816 she married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (the later King Leopold I of Belgium). Charlotte died in childbirth of her 1st child in 1817.


Charlotte of Savoy (1441-1483), wife of Louis XI of France

Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (27 April 1650 � 27 March 1714) was queen-consort of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian V. Her parents were Landgrave William VI of Hesse-Kassel and his consort Hedwig Sophia of Brandenburg. She married Christian V and the couple had 8 children.



Princess Charlotte of Monaco, Duchess of Valentinois (Charlotte Louise Juliette Grimaldi) (30 September 1898 � 15 November 1977), was the daughter of Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and the mother of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. From 1922 until 1944, she was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco, heir presumptive to the throne. Born Charlotte Louise Juliette de Monaco in Constantine, French Algeria, she was the illegitimate daughter of Marie Juliette Louvet, a cabaret singer, and Louis, Hereditary Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois, son and heir of Monaco's reigning monarch, Prince Albert I. Louis had no legitimate children or siblings, so even before he succeeded his father as Prince Louis II, the principality sought to forestall a succession crisis, anticipating that its neighbour, the French Republic, might take it amiss if the throne fell someday to Louis's legal next of kin. That heir was his cousin, Wilhelm, 2nd Duke of Urach, who, although born and raised in Monte Carlo as the son of Princess Florestine of Monaco, was a German subject, property owner and patrilineal relative of the kings of W�rttemberg. On 15 May 1911 a law was passed recognising Charlotte as Louis's daughter, and declaring her to be a dynastic member of the sovereign family. Though this act was later held to be invalid under the 1882 statutes, an Ordinance of 30 October 1918 was passed to allow her to be adopted into the dynasty instead. Louis adopted Charlotte in Paris on 16 May 1919, thereby entitling her to the surname Grimaldi, while her grandfather bestowed upon her the traditional title of the Principality's heir, Duchess of Valentinois, for life. Charlotte became heir presumptive to the throne as Hereditary Princess when her grandfather died and her father inherited the princely crown in 1922. 1920, Louis arranged Charlotte's marriage to the then Count Pierre de Polignac of Hennebont, Morbihan, Brittany, France, who, by the Prince's ordinance, took the surname Grimaldi and became a Prince of the Monegasque Royal Family. The couple had two children.Their marriage was not, however, a happy one; they separated on 20 March 1930 due to his homosexuality, and Charlotte left him to live with her doctor and Italian lover, Dalmazzo. The couple were divorced on 18 February 1933 by ordinance of Prince Louis II. On 30 May 1944, the day before her son's 21st birthday and in full agreement with her father, Charlotte renounced and ceded her rights to the throne to her son Rainier, subject to the stipulation that he did not predecease her. From this date she was no longer Hereditary Princess of Monaco, though she retained the title Princess Charlotte of Monaco.


Charlotte Marie Pomeline Casiraghi (born on 3 August 1986). Eldest daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco and her 2nd husband Stefano Casiraghi. Has a son with her former partner, the French actor and comedian Gad Elmaleh, and a second son with her husband, the French producer Dimitri Rassam


Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (German: Erzherzogin Charlotte von �sterreich; 1 March 1921 � 23 July 1989) was a daughter of Emperor Charles I of Austria and his wife Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. She was also known by the name Charlotte de Bar while a welfare worker in the United States of America from 1943 to 1956. In 1956 she married George, Duke of Mecklenburg (1899 � 6 July 1963), they had no children.


Charlotte Agla� d'Orl�ans (1700�1761), wife of Francesco III, Duke of Modena


Princess Charlotte of Clarence (1819), eldest legitimate child of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom, died hours after birth

Princess Jos�phine Charlotte of Belgium (Jos�phine Charlotte St�phanie Ingeborg Elisabeth Marie-Jos� Marguerite Astrid)( 11 October 1927 � 10 January 2005) was Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg as the wife of Grand Duke Jean. She was a first cousin of Harald V of Norway. She was the first child of King Leopold III of Belgium, and sister of the late King Baudouin I and former King Albert II and aunt of King Philippe I. Jos�phine Charlotte was joined in marriage on 9 April 1953 in Luxembourg to Prince Jean, who at the time was The Hereditary Grand Duke and heir-apparent to the throne of Luxembourg During their 52-year marriage, the royal couple had five children


Princess Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe (10 October 1864 � 16 July 1946) was the daughter of Prince Wilhelm Karl August of Schaumburg-Lippe, and his wife, Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau. As the second wife of King William II of W�rttemberg she became Queen consort of W�rttemberg. She was not only the last queen of W�rttemberg, but the last surviving queen of any German state. On 8 April 1886 she married the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of W�rttemberg, Crown Prince Wilhelm, who succeeded in 1891 as King William II of W�rttemberg (Wilhelm II. von W�rttemberg). She was his second wife, and like her predecessor Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont was held to be of no political consequence. If the marriage had taken place for reasons of state - Wilhelm had no male heir - it was a miscalculation, as Charlotte produced no children.

Salote Tupou III, Queen Regnant of Tonga from 1918�1965 (her name in Tongan translates to Charlotte)


Princess Charlotte of Prussia (Viktoria Elisabeth Auguste Charlotte)(24 July 1860 � 1 October 1919) was Duchess Consort of Saxe-Meiningen as the wife of Bernhard III, the duchy's last ruler. Born at the Neues Palais in Potsdam, she was the second child and eldest daughter of Prince Frederick of Prussia, a member of the House of Hohenzollern who became Crown Prince of Prussia in 1861 and German Emperor in 1888. Through her mother Victoria, Princess Royal, Charlotte was the eldest granddaughter of the British monarch Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.  Princess Charlotte was a difficult child and indifferent student, with a nervous disposition. Her relationship with her demanding mother was strained. As she grew older, Charlotte developed a penchant for spreading gossip and causing trouble. Eager to escape from parental control, at age seventeen, she married Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen in 1878. Her husband's weak-willed personality had little effect on her. Known for spreading gossip and her eccentric personality, Princess Charlotte enjoyed Berlin society while frequently leaving her only child, Princess Feodora, in the care of family members. Charlotte and Feodora, in turn, also had a difficult relationship.The majority of historians hold that Charlotte and Feodora were afflicted with porphyria, a genetic disease that is believed to have affected some members of the British Royal Family, most notably King George III.


Princess Charlotte of Prussia (21 June 1831 � 30 March 1855), was by birth a Princess of Prussia and member of the House of Hohenzollern and by marriage Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Meiningen. She was the eldest child and daughter of Prince Albert of Prussia (younger son of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) and his first wife Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (daughter of William I of the Netherlands and Wilhelmine of Prussia).Her parents' marriage was unhappy due to Prince Albert's several affairs, and finally was dissolved on 28 March 1849, after which Princess Marianne began to live with her former coachman Johannes van Rossum, with whom she had a son, Johannes William of Reinhartshausen.The custody of Charlotte and her two surviving siblings Albert and Alexandrine was given to their father; however, their childless aunt Queen Elisabeth Ludovika (wife of Frederick William IV of Prussia) took care of them, moreover after Prince Albert's second and morganatic marriage in 1853 with Rosalie von Rauch, who bore him two sons, Counts William and Frederick of Hohenau.In 1850, the nineteen-year-old princess married Georg, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen who was twenty-four years old.They had four childrenAlexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Алекса́ндра Фёдоровна, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandrə ˈfjɵdərəvnə]), born

Princess Charlotte of Prussia (13 July 1798 � 1 November 1860), was Empress of Russia as the wife of Emperor Nicholas I (r. 1825�1855).Charlotte was the eldest surviving daughter of King Frederick William III of Prussia (r. 1797�1840) and of Queen Louise of Prussia In 1817 she married Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich of Russia, who later became Emperor Nicholas I. Upon her marriage, Charlotte converted to Russian Orthodoxy, and took the Russian name Alexandra Feodorovna. Ideally matched with her husband, she had a happy marriage that produced a large family; seven of her children survived childhood.

In Kings & Queens of the Medieval World, the author Martin J. Dougherty wrote:     
Matilda was originally named Adelaide, but her name was changed upon her marriage to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1114.

Dagmar is a Scandinavian given name, usually female but occasionally also male, that is also used in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland (Dagmara), the Netherlands, Estonia and Germany, derived from the Old Norse name (Dagm�r), dagr meaning "day", and m�r meaning "daughter," "mother" and "maiden."

Personally I have encountered both female AND male with this given name.

Dagmar of Bohemia (also known as Margaret, Czech: Mark�ta)(c. 1186 � 24 May 1212) was Queen of Denmark as the first spouse of King Valdemar II. She was the daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia and his first wife, Adelaide of Meissen. Before his first marriage, Valdemar had been betrothed to Richeza of Bavaria, daughter of the Duke of Saxony. When that engagement fell through, he married Margaret, now known as Dagmar, in 1205. In 1209, Queen Dagmar gave birth to Valdemar the Young (c. 1209�1231). Queen Dagmar died on 24 May 1212 while giving birth to her second son, who did not survive.


Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 � 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was a Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III (reigned 1881�1894). She was the second daughter and fourth child of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. The rise of Slavophile ideology in the Russian Empire led Alexander II of Russia to search for a bride for the heir apparent, Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, in countries other than the German states that had traditionally provided consorts for the tsars. In 1864, Nicholas, or "Nixa" as he was known in his family, went to Denmark where he was betrothed to Dagmar. On 22 April 1865 he died from meningitis. His last wish was that Dagmar would marry his younger brother, the future Alexander III. Dagmar was distraught after her young fianc�'s death. She was so heartbroken when she returned to her homeland that her relatives were seriously worried about her health. She had already become emotionally attached to Russia and often thought of the huge, remote country that was to have been her home. The disaster had brought her very close to "Nixa's" parents, and she received a letter from Alexander II in which the Emperor attempted to console her. He told Dagmar in very affectionate terms that he hoped she would still consider herself a member of their family. In June 1866, while on a visit to Copenhagen, the Tsarevich Alexander asked Dagmar for her hand. She converted to Orthodoxy and became Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia. The lavish wedding took place on 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1866 in Russia.Maria Feodorovna was beautiful and well received by her Russian peers. Early on she made it a priority to learn the Russian language and to try to understand the Russian people. She rarely interfered with politics, preferring to devote her time and energies to her family, charities, and the more social side of her position. Her one exception to official politics was her militant anti-German sentiment due to the annexation of Danish territories by Prussia in 1864. Maria Feodorovna suffered a miscarriage in 1866 in Denmark while horseback riding. On 18 May 1868, Maria Feodorovna gave birth to her eldest son, Nicholas. Her next son, Alexander Alexandrovich, born in 1869, died from meningitis in infancy. She would bear Alexander four more children who reached adulthood: George (b. 1871), Xenia (b. 1875), Michael (b. 1878), and Olga (b. 1882). As a mother, she doted on and was quite possessive of her sons. She had a more distant relationship with her daughters. On the morning of 13 March 1881, her father-in-law Alexander II of Russia, aged 62, was killed by a bomb on the way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade.  He died a few hours later. Maria's husband succeeded his father as Alexander III.


Princess Dagmar of Denmark (Dagmar Louise Elisabeth)(23 May 1890 � 11 October 1961) was the youngest child and fourth daughter of Frederik VIII of Denmark and his wife, Princess Louise of Sweden and Norway. She was named after her paternal aunt, Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, who was born Princess Dagmar of Denmark. In 1922 she married J�rgen Castenskjold (30 November 1893 �  21 November 1978), son of Anton Castenskiold (1860�1940), Royal Danish Court Chamberlain, and wife Sophie Steensen-Leth (1870�1947), from Danish Nobility. They had five children.


Dagmar Louise Thyra Sophia Castenskjold (11 September 1930 � 12 July 2013), daughter of Princess Dagmar of Denmark and J�rgen Castenskjold. She married Poul Bitsch (5 October 1930 - 21 October 1967) in 1950, and had three children

Vladimir the Great, (958�1015) prince of Novgorod, grand Prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus'

Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (Russian: Влади́мир Александрович)( 22 April 1847 � 17 February 1909) was a son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, a brother of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and the senior Grand Duke of the House of Romanov during the reign of his nephew, Emperor Nicholas II. He was fourth among the eight children of Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna, born Princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt.  While traveling through Germany with his family in June 1871, Grand Duke Vladimir met Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (14 May 1854 � 6 September 1920), daughter of Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Augusta of Reuss-K�stritz.[9] She was seventeen years old and was already engaged to a distant relative, Prince George of Schwarzburg. Grand Duke Vladimir was then twenty four.[9] They were smitten with each other. Vladimir was a second cousin of Maria's father Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a grandson of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia. They were also second cousins in descent from Frederick William III of Prussia. In order to marry Vladimir, Maria broke off her previous engagement, but she refused to yield to the necessary conversion to the Orthodox religion. This delayed the couple's engagement for almost two years. Finally, Tsar Alexander II consented to Marie's continued adherence to her Lutheran faith, allowing Vladimir to marry her without loss of his rights to the Russian throne. The engagement was announced in April 1874. They were married on 28 August 1874.Vladimir's wife adopted the patronymic Pavlovna upon her marriage and was known as Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. Only decades later, after Vladimir's death, she converted to the Russian Orthodox confession, then, Emperor Nicholas II bestowed her the title "the Orthodox Grand Duchess". Grand Duke Vladimir and his wife were both witty and ambitious. They enjoy entertaining and their residence in St. Petersburg became the heart of the Imperial capital social life. Well suited to each other, they had a long and happy marriage. Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and his wife Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna had five children.


 
Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia (Cyrillic: Влади́мир Кири́ллович Рома́нов)(30 August [O.S. 17 August] 1917 � 21 April 1992) was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia, a position which he claimed from 1938 to his death. Vladimir was born Prince Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia at Porvoo in the Grand Duchy of Finland, the only son of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich and Grand Duchess Viktoria Feodorovna (n�e Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha). Vladimir's paternal grandparents were Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (n�e Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin). His maternal grandparents were Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia. Vladimir's family had fled to Finland after the Russian Revolution of 1917. His family left Finland in 1920,[1] moving to Coburg, Germany. On 8 August 1922 Vladimir's father declared himself Curator of the Russian throne. Two years later on 31 August 1924 his father went a step further and assumed the title Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. With his father's assumption of the Imperial title Vladimir was granted the title of Tsesarevich (heir apparent) and Grand Duke with the style of Imperial Highness. In 1930 his family left Germany for Saint-Briac, France where his father set up his court. On the death of his father on 12 October 1938, Vladimir assumed the Headship of the Imperial Family of Russia Vladimir married Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Moukhransky on 13 August 1948. Pre-revolutionary Romanov house law dictated that only those born of an "equal marriage" between a Romanov dynast and a member of a "royal or sovereign house", were included in the Imperial line of succession to the Russian throne; children of morganatic marriages were ineligible to inherit the throne or dynastic status. The family to which Princess Leonida belonged, the Bagrationi dynasty, had been kings in Georgia from the medieval era until the early 19th century, but no male line ancestor of hers had reigned as a king in Georgia since 1505 and her branch of the Bagrations, the House of Mukhrani, had been naturalised among the non-ruling nobility of Russia after Georgia was annexed to the Russian empire in 1801. Yet the royal status of the House of Bagration had been recognized by Russia in the 1783 Treaty of Georgievsk and was confirmed by Vladimir Kirillovich on 5 December 1946 as claimed head of the Russian imperial house. However the last ruling emperor of Imperial Russia Nicholas II had deemed marriage in this family of Princess Tatiana Constantinova in 1911, as morganatic. Some controversy therefore arises as to whether Vladimir's marriage to Leonida was equal or morganatic, and whether his claim to the Imperial throne validly passed to his daughter Maria, to some other dynast, or to no one upon his death. The couple had one daughter Maria. After his death, his daughter Maria Vladimirovna, assumed the headship of the Imperial Family of Russia according to his branch's interpretation of the Russian house laws. This was disputed by Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia who had been chosen president of the self-styled "Romanov Family Association" prior to the death of Grand Duke Vladimir. Nicholas asserted that he was the most senior male dynast after the death of Vladimir, as he believed the children of Romanov grand dukes (sons and grandsons of Russia's tsars) who had not married equally were not Russian dynasts, whereas Princes of Russia (being male-line great-grandchildren, or more remote descendants, of Russia's tsars) were not unequivocally subject to the equal marriage restriction, and deemed their children to be dynasts


Vladimir Sergeievich (June 18, 1902 - 1974), nickname Vova,  son of Mathilde Kschessinska, prima Ballerina and mistress of both Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович)( 7 October 1869 � 18 July 1918) and his cousin Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (Russian: Андрей Владимирович) (14 May 1879 � 30 October 1956). The relationship between the three complicated further as Mathilde became pregnant. Both grand dukes were at first convinced they were the child�s father. After the Revolution, Kschessinska and Grand Duke Andrei maintained that Andrei was the father. The child, who became known within the family by his nickname, Vova, received the name and patronymic Vladimir Sergeievich No surname was made public until 1911. The birth certificate showed Sergei as the father. Grand Duke Sergei was devoted to the child, looking after mother and son until his exile and subsequent execution following the fall of the Russian monarchy. The question of Vladimir�s paternity remains unresolved. However, most sources attribute the paternity to Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, whom the child resembled. Grand Duke Andrei could neither openly live together with Mathilda nor did there exist the possibility of contracting a morganatic marriage with her.  After the revolution Kchessinska and Grand Duke Andrei were married in France in 1921. Grand Duke Andrei supported his brother's claim. Grand Duke Kirill granted to Mathilde and her son the titles of Princess and Prince Romanovsky-Krasinsky, with the treatment of Serene Highness. Prince Vladimir Romanovsky-Krasinsky died unmarried and childless in France in 1974, three years after his mother


Jovan Vladimir, (990�1016) King of Duklja

Vladimir of Bulgaria, (r.889�893) King of Bulgaria

Vladimir II Monomakh, (1053�1125) Veliky Knyaz of Kievan Rus, prince of Kiev; also ruled in Rostov and Suzdal

Vladimir the Bold (1353-1410), prince of Serpukhov, one of the principal commanders of Lithuanian�Muscovite War (1368�1372) and Battle of Kulikovo

Based on the 4 daughters of Nicholas II of Russia & Alix of Hesse by Rhine. Part I

Olga is a Slavic female given name, derived from Old Norse name Helga. It is used in Russia (Ольга), Ukraine (Ольга, transliterated Olha), Belarus (Вольга, transliterated Vol'ha), Bulgaria (Олга transliterated �lga), the Czech Republic, Greece and Cyprus (Όλγα, �lgha), Georgia (ოლგა (Olga) or more archaic ოლღა (Olgha)) Latvia, Lithuania, Albania, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia (Олга or Оља), Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Latin America, North Macedonia.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (Russian: Великая Княжна Ольга Николаевна,)(Velikaya Knyazhna Ol'ga Nikolaevna)(15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1895 � 17 July 1918) was the eldest child of the last Tsar of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia.During her lifetime, Olga's future marriage was the subject of great speculation within Russia. Matches were rumored with Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Crown Prince Carol of Romania, Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain's George V, and with Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia. Olga herself wanted to marry a Russian and remain in her home country.Olga's murder following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. In the 1990s, her remains were identified through DNA testing and were buried in a funeral ceremony at Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg along with those of her parents and two of her sisters.

Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822 � 1892), second daughter of Nicholas I of Russia, wife to Charles I, King of W�rttemberg. She was the second daughter of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. She was thus a sister of Alexander II of Russia. She married Charles I of W�rttemberg, with whom she had no children.

Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna of Russia (1839 � 1891), wife of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia  Born Princess C�cilie Auguste of Baden, was the youngest daughter of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden and Sophie Wilhelmine of Sweden. On 28 August 1857, she married Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich of Russia, the youngest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. Upon her marriage, she converted to the Russian Orthodox faith and took the name Olga Feodorovna with the title of Grand Duchess of Russia. Unusually among the Romanovs of her generation, her marriage was a long and happy union. The couple remained devoted to each other. She raised their seven children with an iron hand. The couple had 7 children.
 
Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851 � 1926), Queen consort to George I, King of Greece; reigned as Queen regent of Greece in 1920. She was the daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievich and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg. Through her father, Olga was a granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I, a niece of Tsar Alexander II and first cousin of Tsar Alexander III. As a child, Olga was described as a simple and chubby little girl with a broad face and big blue eyes. Unlike her younger sister, Vera, she had a calm temperament, but she was also extremely shy. George visited Russia again in 1867 to meet with his sister Dagmar, who had married Tsarevitch Alexander (later Alexander III) the year before. He was determined to find a wife and the idea of an alliance with a Russian grand duchess, born into the Eastern Orthodox Church, appealed to him. Olga fell in love with George, but she was nevertheless anxious and distraught at the thought of leaving Russia. Her father was initially reluctant to agree to their marriage, thinking that at the age of fifteen she was too young and, being close to his daughter, concerned by the distance between Greece and Russia. For her part, Grand Duchess Alexandra was much more enthusiastic than her husband and, when some members of the imperial family noted the extreme youth of her daughter, she replied that Olga would not always be as young.Eventually, it was decided that Olga and George would marry when she had reached her sixteenth birthday. Meanwhile, she would continue her schoolwork until her wedding day. Olga and George married at the chapel of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg on 27 October [O.S. 15 October] 1867. Over the following twenty years, they had eight children.

Princess Olga of Greece (7 April 1880 � 2 November 1880) daughter of Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia and King George I of Greece.

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: О́льга Алекса́ндровна)(13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1882 � 24 November 1960) the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexander III and his consort, Empress Marie, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark. A  younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II. Olga's relationship with her mother, Empress Marie, the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, was strained and distant from childhood. In contrast, she and her father were close. He died when she was 12, and her brother Nicholas became emperor. In 1901, at 19, she married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual. Their marriage of 15 years remained unconsummated, and Peter at first refused Olga's request for a divorce. The couple led separate lives and their marriage was eventually annulled by the Emperor in October 1916. The following month Olga married cavalry officer Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had fallen in love several years before.  The couple had 2 sons.

Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Πριγκίπισσα Όλγα της Ελλάδας και Δανίας, Serbian Cyrillic: Кнегиња Олга Карађорђевић)(11 June 1903 � 16 October 1997) was a granddaughter of King George I of Greece and wife of Prince Paul, Regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Her father was Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, the third son of George I of Greece and Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia. Her mother was Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, a granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. Brought up without wealth, Princess Olga was engaged to Prince Frederick of Denmark in 1922.However, the marriage did not take place and she married Prince Paul of Yugoslavia in Belgrade on 22 October 1923.Prince Paul and Princess Olga had issue

Princess Olga of Greece (17 November 1971), the 2nd child and daughter of Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, RE (Greek: Μιχαήλ)(7 January 1939) and Marina Karella (Greek: Μαρίνα Καρέλλα)(17 July 1940) After a 3 year engagement she  married in 2008 to her second cousin Prince Aimone of Savoy, Duke of Apulia, a member of the former royal family of Italy. Aimone and Olga are the parents of two sons, Prince Umberto (b. 7 March 2009) and Prince Amedeo (b. 2011), and of a daughter, Princess Isabella (b. 2012).

Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff (8 April 1950) is a Russian princess and descendant of the House of Romanov. She is the president of the Romanov Family Association. Princess Olga is the youngest child of Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia and the only one born of his second marriage in 1942, to Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall (1908�2000), daughter of Lt. Col. Herbert McDougall Her father was the son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, who belonged to a cadet branch of the Romanovs, and his wife Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, Tsar Nicholas II's sister. Olga Andreevna uses the English version of her family name, preferring 'Romanoff' to 'Romanova', the feminine form of her name in Russian. She is known by the title "Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff" On 3 December 2017, nearly a year after the death of Prince Dimitri Romanovich Romanov on the last day of 2016, she was elected president of the RFA. In 2005, she was on Australian Princess (a reality show) giving advice to competitors.Once considered a possible bride for her third cousin Charles, Prince of Wales,she married Thomas Mathew (born 8 July 1945) in  1975. They separated in 1989, having had issue (3 sons and 1 daughter).

Saint Olga (Church Slavonic: Ольга, in the baptism � Elena)(born c. 890�925, in Pskov[1] � died 969 AD in Kiev) was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Svyatoslav from 945 until 960. Due to the imperfect transliteration between Old East Slavic and the English language, the name Olga is synonymous with Olha. The baptism of Olga took the name Elenа.While Olga's birthdate is unknown, it could be as early as 890 AD and as late as 925 AD. Little is known about her life before her marriage to Prince Igor I of Kiev and the birth of their son, Svyatoslav. Igor was the son and heir of Rurik, founder of Rurik dynasty. After his father's death Igor was under guardianship of Oleg, who had consolidated power in the region, conquering neighboring tribes and establishing a capital in Kiev. After Igor's death in 945, Olga ruled Kievan Rus as regent on behalf of their son Svyatoslav.At the time of her death, it seemed that Olga's attempt to make Kievan Rus� a Christian territory had been a failure. Nonetheless, Olga's Christianizing mission would be brought to fruition by her grandson, Vladimir, who officially adopted Christianity in 988. In 1547, nearly 600 years after her 969 death, the Russian Orthodox Church named Olga a saint


Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland (German: Olga Adelaide Louise Marie Alexandrina Agnes Prinzessin von Hannover und Cumberland)(11 July 1884 � 21 September 1958) was the youngest daughter of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845�1923) and Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853�1933) She was probably named after her maternal aunt Queen Olga of Greece, the wife of Thyra's brother King George I of Greece (n�e Prince Vilhelm of Denmark) Princess Olga resided with her family at Gmunden and remained unmarried throughout her life. In 1958, shortly before Olga's death, her nephew Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover, and his wife Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl�cksburg named their daughter, born in 1958, Olga in her honour.


Princess Olga Sophie Charlotte Anna of Hanover (born 1958), daughter of Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover, and his wife Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl�cksburg


Princess Olga Margarita Valerie Elisabeth Stephanie Alexandra of Leiningen (23 October 1984). Daughter of Princess Alexandra of Hanover (German: Alexandra Irene Margaretha Elisabeth Bathildis, Prinzessin von Hannover) and Andreas, Prince of Leiningen (Andreas F�rst zu Leiningen)(27 November 1955)


Olga of W�rttemberg (German: Herzogin Olga Alexandrine Marie von W�rttemberg)(1 March 1876 � 21 October 1932) the younger twin daughter of Duke Eugen of W�rttemberg (1846�1877), (son of Duke Eugen of W�rttemberg, and Princess Mathilde of Schaumburg-Lippe) and his wife, Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1854�1912), (daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg). Her older twin was Duchess Elsa of W�rttemberg (1876�1936). They did not look alike and Olga, much taller than her sister, seemed to be the elder of the two. There were plans to marry Princess Olga to Prince Maximilian of Baden, but he ultimately married Princess Marie Louise of Hanover. In March 1898 there were reports of her engagement to Prince Eugen of Sweden, the youngest son of King Oscar II of Sweden. The marriage never occurred. Prince Eugen, a notable artist, remained a bachelor. Olga married Prince Maximilian of Schaumburg-Lippe (13 March 1871 � 1 April 1904) on 3 November 1898. He was a son of Wilhelm, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Bathildis, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau.Their marriage lasted less than six years. Her husband died young. They had three children.


Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (2 December 1865 � 2 November 1929) was the morganatic second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia. She was born as Olga Karnovich in Saint Petersburg, the daughter of Valerian Karnovich and his wife, Olga Vasilyevna Meszaros. She married Erich Gerhard von Pistohlkors (1853�1935 Riga) in 1884, by whom she had four children. She later began an affair with Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, causing a great society scandal, and had a child with him, Vladimir. Her marriage to Pistohlkors was terminated by divorce, and Paul asked permission from Tsar Nicholas II to marry Olga, but he refused. In 1902, Paul married her morganatically, but the marriage was not approved, and she was given no titles. In 1904, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria granted Olga the title of Countess von Hohenfelsen. Nicholas II later acquiesced to the marriage and granted her the title of Princess Paley in 1915. The couple had 3 children.


Olga Erikovna von Pistohlkors (1886�1887), daughter of Olga Karnovich and Erich Gerhard von Pistohlkors


Olga Erikovna von Pistohlkors (1888�1963), daughter of Olga Karnovich and Erich Gerhard von Pistohlkors  She married firstly in 1906 to Count Alexander Belzig von Kreutz and secondly in 1922 to F�rst Sergius Kudaschew.


Olga Ramel (1912�2011) daughter of Alexander Erikovich Pistohlkors (June 6, 1885� 1944) (son of Olga Karnovich and Erich Gerhard von Pistohlkors ) and  Alexandra Taneyeva, a Rasputin follower and the sister of the Tsarina's lady in waiting, Anna Vyrubova.


Lady Helen Olga Hay (n�e Maitland)(23 May 1944), usually known as Lady Olga Maitland, is a British Conservative politician and journalist The daughter of Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, and his wife Stanka (n�e Losanitch) On 19 April 1969, she married Robin William Patrick Hamilton Hay, M.A., LL.B., a barrister who later became a Crown Court Recorder. They have two sons, Alastair and Fergus, and a daughter, Camilla.

Based on the 4 daughters of Nicholas II of Russia & Alix of Hesse by Rhine. Part IV


Anastasia (from Greek Anastas�a (Ἀναστασία)) is a feminine given name and the female equivalent of the male name Anastasius. The name is of Greek origin, coming from the Greek word an�stasis (ἀνάστασις), meaning "resurrection". It is a popular name in Eastern Europe, particularly in Russia, where it was the most used name for decades until 2008, when its place was taken by Sophia. It is still heavily used.


Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Анастаси́я Никола́евна Рома́нова, tr. Anastas�ya Nikol�yevna Rom�nova)(June 18 [O.S. June 5] 1901 � July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Anastasia was the younger sister of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria, and was the elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. She was murdered with her family by a group of Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. Persistent rumors of her possible escape circulated after her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of Communist rule. The abandoned mine serving as a mass grave near Yekaterinburg which held the acidified remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three of their daughters was revealed in 1991. These remains were put to rest at Peter and Paul Fortress in 1998. The bodies of Alexei Nikolaevich and the remaining daughter�either Anastasia or her older sister Maria�were discovered in 2007. Her possible survival has been conclusively disproved. Scientific analysis including DNA testing confirmed that the remains are those of the imperial family, showing that all four grand duchesses were killed in 1918. Several women falsely claimed to have been Anastasia; the best known impostor is Anna Anderson. Anderson's body was cremated upon her death in 1984, but DNA testing in 1994 on available pieces of Anderson's tissue and hair showed no relation to the Romanov family.

Anastasia (sister of Constantine I) (c.290�after 314), half sister of Emperor Constantine I

Anastasia (wife of Constantine IV) (c.650�after 711), Empress consort of Constantine IV of the Byzantine Empire

Anastasia of Kiev (c.1023�1074/1096), Queen consort of Hungary

Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (n�e Nonie May Stewart)( 20 January 1878 � 29 August 1923) was an American-born heiress and member of the Greek Royal Family. She was married to Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, the youngest child of King George I of Greece and his consort, Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, but was created a princess suo jure. She was born as May Stewart in Zanesville, Ohio, to William Charles Stewart, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Mary Holden. As "Nonie May Stewart", on 1 October 1894 in Cleveland, she married George Ely Worthington, son of Ralph Worthington. The marriage license inaccurately states that she was born in 1876, since Ohio law required that females be at least 18 years of age to marry. The couple lived as husband and wife for four years, having no children. It is unclear how or where, but the marriage ended on 23 March 1899 by divorce, annulment or abandonment. On 3 August 1900, May married for the second time in Cleveland: the groom was William Bateman Leeds, a wealthy businessman who was born on 10 September 1861. This was also Leeds' second marriage, the previous one having ended in 1896, at which time he settled one million dollars on his ex-wife. Nonie May and Leeds had one son, William Bateman Leeds, Jr., born on 19 September 1902. Leeds died in 1908 in Paris leaving a fortune estimated at 35 million dollars The wealthy, 30-year-old widow, soon to be known in Europe as "Nancy May Leeds", chose to remain in Europe, where she socialised among the aristocracy. In 1920, six years after their engagement, Nancy May Leeds married  Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888�1940). Four days later, the bride joined the Greek Orthodox church and took, as was usual, a new Christian name: Anastasia. Thereafter, she was officially styled as HRH Princess Anastasia of Greece. Anastasia's 19-year-old son, William B. Leeds, Jr., married her third husband's 18-year-old niece, Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia, they divorced in March 1930. Shortly after her marriage to Prince Christopher, Anastasia was diagnosed with cancer. She died three years later in 1923. In 1929, Prince Christopher married Princess Fran�oise of Orl�ans (1902�1953) and fathered a son, Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (1939). Prince Christoph died a year later.


Princess Anastasia Victoria Cecilia Hermine of Prussia (14 February 1944); daughter of  Prince Hubertus of Prussia (Hubertus Karl Wilhelm) (30 September 1909 � 8 April 1950) and his 2nd wife Princess Magdalena Reuss of K�stritz (20 August 1920 � 10 October 2009). She married Alois-Konstantin, 9th Prince of L�wenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and had issue.

Princess Anastasia of Saxony (German: Anastasia-Luise Alexandra Elisabeth Jutta Sibylle Marie-Auguste Henriette Prinzessin von Anhalt) (Anastasia-Luise Alexandra Elisabeth Jutta Sibylle Marie-Auguste Henriette)( 22 December 1940) is a member of the House of Ascania. The only child of Prince Eugen of Anhalt and his wife Anastasia Jungmeier. In 1962 Anastasia married Prince Maria Emanuel of Saxony, eldest child of Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen and his wife, Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis. Anastasia and Maria Emanuel do not have children.

Princess Anastasia of Georgia (Georgian: ანასტასია)(3 November 1763 � 17 May 1838) was a Georgian princess royal (batonishvili), a daughter of King Heraclius II of Georgia of his third marriage to Darejan Dadiani. She was married into the princely family of Eristavi, former Ducal House of Ksani.On 12 November 1797, at the age of 34, she married Prince Revaz (Roman) Eristavi (c. 1757�1813), a son of Giorgi, Duke of Ksani, who had been dispossessed by Heraclius II of his hereditary duchy in the Ksani valley. Princess Anastasia had five children with Revaz Eristavi.


Princess Anastasia Petrović-Njego� of Montenegro (4 January [O.S. 23 December] 1867 � 25 November 1935) was the daughter of King Nikola I Petrović-Njego� of Montenegro (1841�1921) and his wife, Milena Vukotić (1847�1923). She retained her childhood name of "Stana" to close relations. On 28 August n.s., 1889, at the Imperial Russian Palace of Peterhof, Stana married Prince George Maximilianovich of Leuchtenberg (later the Duke of Leuchtenberg.) The Duke had previously been married and widowed, with one son, Alexander Georgievich, from his prior marriage to Princess Therese of Oldenburg. The couple had two children before divorcing in St. Petersburg on 15 November 1906. On 29 April 1907, at the age of 39, Anastasia was married to Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856�1929). The marriage was childless. Both her husbands were descendants of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia (1796�1855): the first one was his grandson through a maternal line, and the second one was his grandson through a direct male line.Anastasia and her sister were intrigued by the more mystical side of the Eastern Orthodox religion; they were early supporters of the French seer "Dr." Philippe Vachot and of the starets Rasputin, and introduced both in turn to the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Tsarina of Russia.


Duchess Anastasia Alexandrine Cecile Marie Luise Wilhelmine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Full German name: Anastasia Alexandrine Cecile Marie Luise Wilhelmine Herzogin zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin), (11 November 1923 � 25 January 1979) Anastasia was the youngest child and youngest daughter of Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and his wife Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland. In 1943 Anastasia married Prince Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl�cksburg, youngest son of Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl�cksburg and his wife Countess Ortrud of Ysenburg and B�dingen. Friedrich Ferdinand and Anastasia had four daughters.


Anastasia de Montfort, Countess of Nola (born c.1274), was an Italian noblewoman and a wealthy heiress. She was the eldest daughter of Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola, himself the son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. She held the title suo jure Countess of Nola after her father's death in 1291. She also held the titles of suo jure Dame de Chailly and suo jure Dame de Longjumeau. She was the wife of Romano Orsini, Senator of Rome, by whom she had at least three children.


Countess Anastasia Vasilyevna Hendrikova, (23 June 1887 � 4 September 1918), was a lady in waiting at the court of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. She was arrested by the Bolsheviks and shot to death outside Perm in the autumn of 1918. Hendrikova, who was nicknamed "Nastenka," was the daughter of Count Vassili Alexandrovich Hendrikov, Grand Master of Ceremonies of the Imperial Court, and his wife, Princess Sophia Petrovna Gagarine. She was a descendant of the sister of Catherine I of Russia, the wife of Peter the Great. Hendrikova was devoted to the Romanov family and followed them into exile after the Russian Revolution of 1917


Anastasia Robinson (c. 1692 � April 1755), later known as Anastasia, Countess of Peterborough, was an English soprano, later contralto, of the Baroque era.Robinson was the eldest daughter of Thomas Robinson, a portrait painter who worked for a time in Italy  In 1722 (or possibly 1723) she had secretly married Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, although he did not acknowledge her status as his wife until 1735, just before his death; until then they lived separately, and society regarded her as his mistress.


Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby, CBE (9 September 1892 � 7 December 1977), otherwise styled Lady Zia Wernher, was the elder daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, by Countess Sophie of Merenberg. Like her mother, Anastasia was born of a morganatic marriage, and was ineligible to bear her father's title or rank. Following her parents' elopement to San Remo in 1891 and consequent banishment from Russia, Sophia was made Countess de Torby by Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, which title extended to all three of the couple's children Through her mother, she descended from the renowned Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. On 20 July 1917 Countess Anastasia de Torby married British Major-General Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt (1893�1973; son of wealthy financier, Sir Julius Wernher, Bt, who had made his fortune in South African diamonds) The couple had one son and two daughters


Anastasia Margriet Josephine  van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven (known as Anna) (15 april 2001) eldest child and daughter of Maurits Willem Pieter Hendrik, Prince van Oranje-Nassau, Van Vollenhoven (17 april 1968) and his wife Maril�ne van den Broek. She is the eldest great grandchild of former Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands on paternal side. She is also the eldest grandchild of Princess Margriet and Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven. Princess Margriet is the 3rd daughter of former Queen Juliana.

Based on the 4 daughters of Nicholas II of Russia & Alix of Hesse by Rhine. Part III

Maria is a feminine given name. It is given in many languages influenced by Latin Christianity. It has its origin as the feminine form of the Roman name Marius (see Maria (gens)), and, after Christian religion has spread across the Roman empire, it became the Latinised form of the name of Miriam: Mary, mother of Jesus. Maria (Μαρία) is a form of the name used in the New Testament, standing alongside Mariam Μαριάμ. It reflects the Syro-Aramaic name Maryam, which is in turn derived from the Biblical Hebrew name Miriam. As a result of their similarity and syncretism, the Latin original name Maria and the Hebrew-derived Maria combined to form a single name.The name is also sometimes used as a male (middle) name. This was historically the case in many Central European countries and still is the case in countries with strong Catholic traditions, where it signified patronage of the Virgin Mary (French-speakers often did the same with Marie). Besides Maria, Mother of Jesus there are three other women named Maria in the New Testament: Maria Magdalena and Maria Salom�, disciples of Jesus, and Maria Bet�nia, sister of Lazarus. In Quranic tradition, the name is rendered Maryam, but Arabic reflects the Christian given name as Mārya مارية or Māryā ماريا; for example, Mārya al-Qibiṭiyya, a Coptic Egyptian woman who was a bondmaid to prophet Muhammad.

Marie is the French form of the name Maria, but also used in several other countries (a.o. the Netherlands)

Mary is the English form of the name Maria

Maria and Marie are very often used in combined names, such as Maria Theresa.

Maria/Marie/Mary

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (Maria Nikolaevna Romanova); Russian: Великая Княжна Мария Николаевна, 26 June [O.S. 14 June] 1899 � 17 July 1918) was the third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Her murder following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.She was an elder sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, whose alleged escape from the assassination of the imperial family was rumored for nearly 90 years.However, it was later proven that Anastasia did not escape. In the 1990s, it was suggested that Maria might have been the grand duchess whose remains were missing from the Romanov grave that was discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia and exhumed in 1991. However, further remains were discovered in 2007, and DNA analysis subsequently proved that the entire Imperial family had been murdered in 1918. A funeral for the remains of Maria and Alexei to be buried with their family in October 2015 was postponed indefinitely by the Russian Orthodox Church, which took custody of the remains in December and declared without explanation that the case required further study; the 44 partial bone fragments remain stored in a Russian state repository.


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Maria Temryukovna (1544�1569), second wife of Ivan IV of Russia

Maria Dolgorukaya (died 1580), seventh wife of Ivan IV of Russia

Maria Nagaya (died 1608), eighth wife of Ivan IV of Russia

Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya (died 1605), wife of Boris Godunov

Maria Buynosova-Rostovskaya (d. 1626), second wife of Vasili IV of Russia

Maria Dolgorukova (1601�1625), first wife of Michael I of Russia

Maria Miloslavskaya (1625�1669), first wife of Alexis I of Russia

Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of W�rttemberg) (1759�1828), wife of Paul I of Russia

Maria Alexandrovna (Russian: Мария Александровна), born Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (8 August 1824 � 3 June 1880) was Empress of Russia as the first wife of Emperor Alexander II. She was the mother of Emperor Alexander III and the paternal grandmother of Nicholas II. She was a daughter of Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden. She was only fourteen years old when the Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich, later Tsar Alexander II of Russia, fell in love with her while he was traveling to Western Europe. She arrived in Russia in September 1840, converted to the Orthodox Church, took the title of Grand Duchess of Russia and traded the name Marie for Maria Alexandrovna. She married Alexander on 16 April 1841. The couple had eight children: two daughters and six sons. For fourteen years (1840�1855), she was Tsarevna, the wife of the heir of the Russian throne. She became the Russian Empress consort after the death of her father-in-law, Tsar Nicholas I. Maria Alexandrovna learned the Russian language quickly; she was pious and identified with her adopted country. She did not enjoy court life or the duties of representation as she was shy and of a withdrawn nature. As a consequence, she was not popular. She took a more focused interest in charitable activities after the death of her mother-in-law the Dowager Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in 1860. Maria Alexandrovna was particularly active in the field of female education, establishing Russia's first all-female schools. She organized the Russian Red Cross and expanded its activities during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877�78. She was deeply affected by the death of her eldest son the Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich in 1865. By then, her fragile constitution was undermined by her numerous pregnancies and by tuberculosis which afflicted her since 1863. To avoid the harsh Russian winters, she spent long sojourns in the Crimea and in southern Europe. Her marriage to Tsar Alexander II started as a love match and it was happy for some years, but Alexander II had many affairs and in 1866 he fell in love with Catherine Dolgorukova and had four children with his mistress. Maria Alexandrovna was treated with respect by her philanderer husband and she was much loved by her surviving children. After a long illness, she died in 1880. Maria Alexandrovna knew Alexander was unfaithful and had many lovers. The Tsar had three children with his mistress, Princess Catherine Dolgoruki, whom he moved into the Imperial Palace, along with their children, during Maria's final illness. After the Empress's death, the two entered into a morganatic marriage on 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1880. She was buried with full dignity as The Empress and remembered for her gracious manner and wisdom.



Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) (1847�1928), wife of Alexander III of Russia. She was the second daughter and fourth child of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. The rise of Slavophile ideology in the Russian Empire led Alexander II of Russia to search for a bride for the heir apparent, Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, in countries other than the German states that had traditionally provided consorts for the tsars. In 1864, Nicholas, or "Nixa" as he was known in his family, went to Denmark where he was betrothed to Dagmar. On 22 April 1865 he died from meningitis. His last wish was that Dagmar would marry his younger brother, the future Alexander III. Dagmar was distraught after her young fianc�'s death. She was so heartbroken when she returned to her homeland that her relatives were seriously worried about her health. She had already become emotionally attached to Russia and often thought of the huge, remote country that was to have been her home. The disaster had brought her very close to "Nixa's" parents, and she received a letter from Alexander II in which the Emperor attempted to console her. He told Dagmar in very affectionate terms that he hoped she would still consider herself a member of their family In June 1866, while on a visit to Copenhagen, the Tsarevich Alexander asked Dagmar for her hand. She converted to Orthodoxy and became Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia. The lavish wedding took place on 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1866 Maria Feodorovna was beautiful and well received by her Russian peers. Early on she made it a priority to learn the Russian language and to try to understand the Russian people. She rarely interfered with politics, preferring to devote her time and energies to her family, charities, and the more social side of her position. Her one exception to official politics was her militant anti-German sentiment due to the annexation of Danish territories by Prussia in 1864, a sentiment also expressed by her sister, Alexandra. On 18 May 1868, Maria Feodorovna gave birth to her eldest son, Nicholas. Her next son, Alexander Alexandrovich, born in 1869, died from meningitis in infancy. She would bear Alexander four more children who reached adulthood: George (b. 1871), Xenia (b. 1875), Michael (b. 1878), and Olga (b. 1882). As a mother, she doted on and was quite possessive of her sons. She had a more distant relationship with her daughters. On the morning of 13 March 1881, her father-in-law Alexander II of Russia, aged 62, was killed by a bomb on the way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade. In her diary, Maria later described how the wounded, still living Emperor was taken to the palace: "His legs were crushed terribly and ripped open to the knee; a bleeding mass, with half a boot on the right foot, and only the sole of the foot remaining on the left."[10] Alexander II died a few hours later. Although the people were not enamoured of the new emperor, they adored Russia's new empress. As Maria's contemporaries said of her: "She is truly an empress." She was not altogether pleased with her new status. In her diary she wrote, "Our happiest and serenest times are now over. My peace and calm are gone, for now I will only ever be able to worry about Sasha."  Maria is described as a success in her social role as Empress, loved to dance at the balls of high society and became a popular socialite and hostess of the Imperial balls; her daughter Olga commented, �Court life had to run in splendor, and there my mother played her part without a single false step.� As tsarevna, and then as tsarina, Maria Feodorovna had something of a social rivalry with the popular Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, wife of her Russian brother-in-law, Grand Duke Vladimir. This rivalry had echoed the one shared by their husbands, and served to exacerbate the rift within the family. During Alexander III's reign, the monarchy's opponents quickly disappeared underground. A group of students had been planning to assassinate Alexander III on the sixth anniversary of his father's death at the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. The plotters had stuffed hollowed-out books with dynamite, which they intended to throw at the Tsar when he arrived at the cathedral. However, the Russian secret police uncovered the plot before it could be carried out. Five students were hanged in 1887; amongst them was Aleksandr Ulyanov, older brother of Vladimir Lenin. The biggest threat to the lives of the tsar and his family, however, came not from terrorists, but from a derailment of the imperial train in the fall of 1888. When Maria's eldest sister Alexandra visited Gatchina in July 1894, she was surprised to see how weak her brother-in-law Alexander III had become. At the time Maria had long known that he was ill and did not have long left. On 1 November 1894, Alexander III died aged just 49. In her diary Maria wrote, "I am utterly heartbroken and despondent, but when I saw the blissful smile and the peace in his face that came after, it gave me strength." Maria Feodorovna's birthday was a week after the funeral, and as it was a day in which court mourning could be somewhat relaxed, Nicholas used the day to marry Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, who took the name Alexandra Feodorovna Maria Feodorovna disliked Rasputin, whom she regarded to be a dangerous charlatan, and when his activities damaged the reputation of the Tsar, she asked the Tsar and Empress to remove him from their vicinity. When the Tsar remained silent and Empress Alexandra answered and refused for both of them, Maria assumed the empress was the true regent and that she also lacked the capability for such a position: �My poor daughter-in-law does not perceive that she is ruining the dynasty and herself. She sincerely believes in the holiness of an adventurer, and we are powerless to ward off the misfortune, which is sure to come." Despite the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917, the former Empress Dowager Maria at first refused to leave Russia. Only in 1919, at the urging of her sister, Queen Dowager Alexandra, did she begrudgingly depart, fleeing Crimea over the Black Sea to London. King George V sent the warship HMS Marlborough to retrieve his aunt. The party of 17 Romanovs included her daughter the Grand Duchess Xenia and five of Xenia's sons plus six dogs and a canary. At first she stayed with her elder sister Alexandra in Great Britain, but eventually returned to her native Denmark.  On 13 October 1928 near Copenhagen, in a house she had once shared with her sister Queen Alexandra, Maria died at the age of 80, having outlived four of her six children Following services in Copenhagen's Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Church, the Empress was interred at Roskilde Cathedral. In 2005, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and President Vladimir Putin of Russia and their respective governments agreed that the Empress's remains should be returned to St. Petersburg in accordance with her wish to be interred next to her husband. A number of ceremonies took place from 23 to 28 September 2006. The funeral service, attended by high dignitaries, including the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, did not pass without some turbulence. The crowd around the coffin was so great that a young Danish diplomat fell into the grave before the coffin was interred. On 26 September 2006, a statue of Maria Feodorovna was unveiled near her favourite Cottage Palace in Peterhof. Following a service at Saint Isaac's Cathedral, she was interred next to her husband Alexander III in the Peter and Paul Cathedral on 28 September 2006, 140 years after her first arrival in Russia and almost 78 years after her death.