Audrey Emery

Anna Audrey Emery ( born January 4, 1904 in Cincinnati, Ohio, † November 25, 1971 in West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American heiress and socialite who was the wife of the last Russian Grand Dukes.

Emery was the youngest daughter of the real estate millionaire John Josiah Emery and his wife, the native Lela Alexander. She had two sisters, Alexandra and Lela and two brothers Thomas and John Josiah Jr..

She married in 1926 in morganiatischer married the Russian Grand Duke Dmitri, who lived in exile after the Russian Revolution. She was not equal, rose Grand Duke Kirill, the head of the Russian tsarist family, she ( was Ilyinski the name of Dmitri's original possessions in Russia) to the rank of a princess Romanowskaja - Iljinskaja. From American Society circles this title was considered as title of prince, and Emery was regularly referred to as the Princess, who was with Dmitri as the founder of the House of Ilyinski exile in Russia needle. She is regarded by her marriage with a member of this House as Princess of Schleswig and Holstein -Gottorp.

In 1928 she had her only child, Prince Paul Romanovsky - Ilyinski. In 1937, the couple divorced and she moved to France with her son. In the same year she married Prince Dimitri Djordjadze, a member of a Georgian princely house, this marriage also ended in divorce. After her two marriages Emery took back to her birth name and took on more than Mrs. Audrey Emery.

In 1992, her son Paul Ilyinski, who had become an American citizen, had served in the U.S. Navy and was elected three times for mayor of Palm Beach, the nominal head of the house of Holstein -Gottorp.