Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia
Princess Xenija Georgievna Romanova (Russian Ксения Георгиевна Романова ) (*. 9 Augustjul / August 22 1903greg in the Mikhailovsky Palace in Saint Petersburg, . † September 17, 1965 in Glen Cove, New York ) was a member of the House of Romanov -Holstein -Gottorp.
Life
Xenija Georgievna was the youngest daughter of the Russian Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov (1863-1919) and his wife Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark (1876-1940), daughter of the Greek King George I and the Grand Duchess Olga Romanova Konstantinovna. She had an older sister, Princess Nina Georgievna Romanova (1901-1974), later Princess Chavchavadze.
On October 8, 1921 married Princess Xenija in Paris the American industrialist William Bateman Leeds, Jr. (1902-1971 ), only son of William Bateman Leeds and Nonnie May " Nancy " Stewart ( 1870-1923 ). Your mother married a year earlier, in his third marriage, her uncle Prince Christopher of Greece and took after marriage the name "Anastasia" on. From the joint union a daughter, Nancy Helen Marie (1925-2006), out. In 1930, the marriage ended in divorce due to irreconcilable differences, and they got as compensation awarded an annual pension, but only until she remarries would go down. In his second marriage, she married in August 1946 in Glen Cove wealthy businessman Herman Jud ( 1911-1987 ), the marriage remained childless.
Princess Xenija died in 1965 in Glen Cove from the effects of cancer.