Princess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
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There is little information regarding the sister of Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Princess Xenia Alexandrovna or Ksenia Aleksandrovna of Russia was born at the Anichkov Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russian on March 25, 1875. She died on April 20, 1960 in London, England. She was born to Alexander III and Tsarevna Marie Feodrorovna. Her other siblings included Olga, Michael and the Grand Duke George Alexandrovich. When she was just six years old she witnessed the death of her grandfather Alexander II on March 1, 1881 who was killed by a revolutionary in a bombing. Her father Alexander III soon became Tsar after. She married her cousin, the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (Sandro) who was also the youngest son of Nicolas I. She wanted to marry at the age of fifteen but her parents were against the marriage at such an early age. On July 1894, they were married and had seven children, a total of six sons and one daughter. She was reportedly very shy but never declined to play with her rowdy children.
During her pregnancy with her last child Vassili, her husband Mikhailovich was havening an affair with a friend in Biarritz and after the baby was born Xenia began to have an affair of her own. The name of her lover or lovers were unmentioned and only abbreviated as “F.” After Mikhaiovich and Xenia admitted the affairs to each other, their marriage began to fall apart. In 1918 she had heard that her brother Nicholas, his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna and his five daughter, the most famous being the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna were murdered by the Bolsheviks. She was able to escape Russia with help from a British Warship, the HMS Marlborough.
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