#grand duke george

[the-last-tsar]

Tsarevich Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II) with Grand Duchess Xenia, Alexandra and Sofia Vorontsova, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duke George Mikhailovich.

[ykzzr]

The imperial family on the skating rink in the garden of the Anichkov Palace 1890.

Tsar Alexander III, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, Grand Dukes George Alexandrovich, Mikhail Alexandrovich, Alexander Mikhailovich and Sergei Mikhailovich.

[leonisandmurex]

2024 <3

[royalty-nobility]

Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany (1797-1870)

Artist: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865)

Date: 1833

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Leopold II[nb 1] (3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; first to Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832, to Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he begat his eventual successor, Ferdinand. Leopold was recognised contemporarily as a liberal monarch, authorising the Tuscan Constitution of 1848, and allowing a degree of press freedom.

The Grand Duke was deposed briefly by a provisional government in 1849, only to be restored the same year with the assistance of Austrian troops, who occupied the state until 1855. Leopold attempted a policy of neutrality with regard to the Second Italian War of Independence but was expelled by a bloodless coup on 27 April 1859, just before the beginning of the war. The Grand Ducal family left for Bologna, papal territory since the Congress of Vienna.

Tuscany was occupied by soldiers of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia for the duration of the conflict. The Armistice of Villafranca, agreed to between Napoleon III of France and Franz Joseph I of Austria on 11 July, provided for the return of the Lorraines to Florence, but Leopold himself was considered too unpopular to be accepted, and on 21 July 1859, he abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Ferdinand. Ferdinand was not, however, any more acceptable to the revolutionaries in control of Florence, and his accession was not proclaimed. Instead, the provisional government proclaimed the deposition of the House of Habsburg (16 August).

[world-of-wales]

♚♛ EUROPEAN MONARCHS AND THEIR HEIRS ♛♚

───────────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────────────

♔ UNITED KINGDOM┆ King Charles III → William, The Prince of Wales → Prince George of Wales

♔ SPAIN┆King Felipe VI → Princess Leonor, The Princess of Asturias

♔ BELGIUM┆ King Philippe → Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

♔ SWEDEN ┆ King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden → Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland → Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland

♔ DENMARK ┆ Queen Margrethe II → Crown Prince Frederik → Prince Christian

♔ NORWAY ┆ King Harald V of Norway → Crown Prince Haakon → Princess Ingrid Alexandra

♔ LUXEMBOURG ┆ Grand Duke Henri → Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume → Prince Charles

♔ NETHERLANDS┆ King Willem-Alexander → Princess Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

♔ MONACO┆ Prince Albert II → Hereditary Prince Jacques, → Princess Gabriella, Countess of Carladès

[adini-nikolaevna]

Grand Duchess Eleanore of Hesse with her two sons, Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus and Prince Ludwig. Courtesy of Schloss Wolfsgarten.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna playing with their little cousins Princes Georg Donatus and Ludwig of Hesse and By Rhine, also with their maternal uncle Grand Duke Ernst Louis of Hesse and By Rhine, Livadia Crimea 1912 🤍

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

♡ Empress Maria Feodorovna photographed with her children: Xenia, George, and Nicholas, c. 1879. ♡

[heavyarethecrowns]

Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse (1868-1937) later the Grand Duke of Hesse; Prince George of Wales (1865-1936) later King George V, and Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (1874-1899) later Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

[thepaleys]

Marie Pavlovna breaks the news of her engagement to her father

My chief worry was how to break the news to my father. My heart was heavy with remorse at not having sought his counsel. I took my problem to my aunt. She seemed unable to understand my scruples and could only repeat those phrases which we had heard so often from her and, in days prior, from our uncle.

Our father had abandoned us. He had left his responsibilities to others. It was now the duty of those others to make such decisions as would provide for my happiness...

The word “happiness,” in her mouth, had the ring of a verdict. I heard her pronounce this word so many times, and in so many tones, during the months that followed, that I came thoroughly to detest it. “Your happiness requires... For your happiness... In the interests of your happiness...” And so on, interminably.

My father had nothing to say as to all this happiness; he was not able to change anything; it was decided. And now all that I had to do was to write him and tell him about it.

Since I did not know what to write or what to say, my aunt dictated to me a letter of which I have never since been able to think without blushing. Upon that occasion, as throughout the period of my engagement, I most assuredly did honor to my princely education. Now I humbled myself entirely to my aunt’s judgment and wrote exactly as she dictated.

My letter did not deceive my father. It was as sentimental as could be wished, but the words of love and of happiness were set down with too great ease, and with too great emphasis; he knew that they could not be sincere.

By the text of that letter, I at last understood exactly the sentiments I was supposed to entertain towards my fiancé. I understood that I was “madly in love” with him, and that this love had come upon me like a thunderclap.

“A rather official thunderclap,” I thought to myself, disgustedly, but I docilely copied the letter, word for word.

The answer that I received from Paris was pained and sad. My aunt’s attitude towards my father throughout all these happenings hurt him profoundly; he held it against her always. The haste with which they had disposed of my future seemed to him incomprehensible. I was too young, he said, to marry, too young to have developed independence of judgment. And he deeply resented the fact that all arrangements had been made without his having been consulted, or even notified.

Nor was my father the only one unfavorably impressed by so rushed and abrupt an engagement. My grandfather, the King of Greece, likewise protested. He wrote my aunt, pointing out that I was barely seventeen, and asked that the marriage be postponed until my eighteenth year.

My aunt announced that in this she would submit to his wish, my father’s, and mine. The marriage was set for the spring of 1908.

"Education of a Princess" - Marie Pavlovna Jr.

[krasivaa]

Romanovs men edit💋

my edit made by using capcut!!

i'm in love help mee😩😜

They are all so handsome, gentle and clever

[the-last-tsar]

Tsarina Maria Feodorovna and Tsar Alexander III with their sons Nicholas, George and others.

[ykzzr]

Tsar Alexander III, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich standing above an officer, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich carrying his younger sister Grand Duchess Olga above him, and two officers carrying Tsesarevich Nicholas.

Sorry for the bad quality, but the picture is beautiful.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Christian-Ludwig, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ernst August Christian Georg, Duke of Brunswick Georg Wilhelm Ernst August Friedrich Axel, Prince of Hanover

German vintage postcard

[loiladadiani]

Tsarevich Grand Duke Georgyi Alexandrovich (1870 - 1899)

These are my two favorite pictures of Tsarevich Georgyi. I love his impish smile. We don't know much about him so it is easy to like him.

He was cute, blonder than his siblings (I think he looked more like his Danish male relatives than Nicholas or Mikhail.) He had that cute smile. He was smart and studious (he never stopped studying - he continued to study astronomy and archeology once he went to Abbas Tuman.) In a letter to a friend, his sister Xenia (whom he seemed to adore and who adored him) wrote that he liked drinking a bit too much and he liked the ladies (the guy was in his mid-twenties at the time, tuberculosis or not, so nothing surprising about that) and his doctors wanted him to stay away from champagne and the ladies (he probably did not listen.) He had a good sense of humor.

The Mikhailovichi, especially Nicholas, Georgyi, and Sandro, visited him frequently in the Caucasus. They had great affection for him, probably because they had lost a young brother to tuberculosis.

There are all kinds of rumours about George marrying morganatically and having children. His tuberculosis was quite severe and he was very sick most of the time (towards the end his heart was obviously affected as he was too short of breath to walk.) But I hope he did get to fall in love or in lust and that the mountains of the Caucasus are crawling with his descendants.

He is the third son Empress Maria Feodorovna; the first was baby Alexander and the second was Nicholas. Apparently, George was her favorite.

[georgegraphys]

Who's up for some GR endless connections talkie talkie?

The owner of UAE's leading real estate company who is currently working with Mercedes Benz in their recent project of a residential place, Mercedes Benz Places in Dubai followed George

This man seems to also be acquaintained with the UAE royals who has investment stakes in companies like Etihad Airways, Etisalat and (e&), G42 (Merc's sponsor yes), and many more