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EARLY LIFE Grand Duke Cyril was born on October 12 , 1876 . His father was Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovitch Of Russia , the third son of Tsar Alexander II Of Russia and Maria Alexandrovna Of Hesse . His mother was Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the daughter of Friedrich Franz II Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Augusta of Reuss -Köstritz. As a grandson in the male line to a Russian Tsar, he was titled Grand Duke , with the style ''His Imperial Highness''. MARRIAGE Grand Duke Cyrill married his first cousin, Princess Victoria Melita Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha on October 8 , 1905 . Victoria was daughter of Alfred, Duke Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha , the second eldest son of Queen Victoria . Victoria's mother was Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna Of Russia , a daughter of Tsar Michael II and Cyrill's paternal aunt. The marriage caused a scandal in the courts of European Royalty as Princess Victoria was divorced from her first husband, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig Of Hesse , also her fist cousin. The Grand Duke of Hesses's sister was Alexandra Fyodorovna Of Hesse , the wife of Tsar Nicholas II Of Russia . The Tsarina already disliked her ex-sister in law and was instrumental in leading the opposition to the marriage in the Russian court. Shortly after returning to Russia, the Tsar stripped Cyrill of his imperial allowance and position in the navy. However, after several deaths in the family had put Cyril third in the line of succession to the Imperial Throne, Nicholas reinstated Cyril, and the latter's wife came into favor, and was given the title Grand Duchess of Russia, who from then on was styled as ''Her Imperial Highness'' Grand Duchess Viktoria Feodorovna. CHILDREN The Grand Duke Cyril and Princess Victoria Melita had three children:
REVOLUTION After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Cyril and Victoria fled to Finland , then Coburg, Germany . Eventually the exiled family moved to France where they stayed for the rest of their lives. In he was the prime claimant after the Execution Of Tsar's Family by Bolshevik s. His sole son, Vladimir , succeeded him as head of the Romanov dynasty. |
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