Saturday, September 5, 2009

Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna's jewels found in Swedish archive

Good Times piece on the discovery of some of Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna's jewels.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6823408.ece

The heirs will include Grand Duchess Marie Wladimirovna of Russia and her son, George, and the descendants of Grand Duchess Helen, who married Prince Nicholas of Greece. Helen and Nicholas had three daughters, Olga, who married Prince Paul of Yugoslavia; Elisabeth, who married the Count of Toerring-Jettenbach; and Marina, who married the Duke of Kent.

1 comment:

Eurohistory said...

Also and interesting - the one heir who will get the largest chunk of the sales proceeds: Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna who owns the sixth given to Vladimir Kirillovich. The other dive sixths will go to the descendants of Maria Kirillovna, Kira Kirillovna, Olga of Yugoslavia, Elisabeth Toerring-Jettenbach and Marina of Kent. As of last discussion about this each sixth will be divided among the children of the six grandchildren of Marie Pavlovna and in the case of a greatgrandchild being dead then the proceeds go to his/her heirs, if there are any. Some of the cousins Alex and Elisabeth Yugoslavia, Maria Vladimirovna, Hans Veit Toerring and Helen Austria will end with larger shares than the Leiningen, Prussia and Kent heirs.