#princess irina alexandrovna

[lesyoussoupoff]

"I forgot to say that at Torby (home of Countess Sophie Torby) I saw the last photograph of Ksenia Alexandrovna's daughter. How beautiful she is..." Letter from Prince Felix Youssoupoff to his mother, Zenaida in October 1910.

[adini-nikolaevna]

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov and his wife, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, by Bogdanov-Belsky.

[andiatas]

Royal Reads: Apr-Jun 2024

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George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith (new paperback version published Apr. 11, 2024) // Heroines of the Tudor World by Sharon Bennett Connolly (Jun. 15, 2024)

Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII's Queens by Charlotte Bolland, Suzannah Lipscomb, Nicola Clarke, Brett Dolman, Alden Gregory, Benjamin Hebbert, Nicola Tallis, Valerie Schutte (Jun. 20, 2024) // Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors by Tom Bower (new paperback version published Apr. 16, 2024) // The Private Life of James II by Justine Ruth Brown (May 30, 2024)

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark (Apr. 25, 2024) // James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth's Heir, 1566-1603 by Alexander Courtney (Jun. 3, 2024)

Wise Words from King Charles III by Karen Dolby (Apr. 25, 2024) // Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy, Julia Fox (new paperback version published Jun. 6, 2024) // Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World by Martin Goodman (May 14, 2024)

Rasputin's Killer and his Romanov Princess by Coryne Hall (Jun. 15, 2024) // Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen by Mary Hollingsworth (Jun. 6, 2024) // Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman (new hardcover published Apr. 30, 2024)

Stephen and Matilda's Civil War: Cousins of Anarchy by Matthew Lewis (May 30, 2024) // Courting the Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I And Her Suitors by Carol Ann Lloyd (Jun. 30, 2024) // Babur: The Chessboard King by Aabhas Maldahiyar (Jun. 27, 2024)

Lady Charlotte Guest: The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist by Victoria Owens (Jun. 30, 2024) // Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque (May 2, 2024)

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of Royal History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell (new paperback version published May 9, 2024) // The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch by Sophie Shorland (Jun. 6, 2024)

The Royal Palaces: Secrets and Scandals by Kate Williams, James Oses (Jun. 27, 2024) // The Mysterious Death of Katherine Parr: What Really Happened to Henry VIII's Last Queen? by June Woolerton (Apr. 4, 2024) // Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess by Adam Zamoyski (Jun. 20, 2024)

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Cousins! 🤍

Princess Irina Alexandrovna, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolaevna, and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1899.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

RARE photos Princess Irina Alexandrovna rolling on the ground and doing other funny things, 1915 and 1911 😝🤍

[krasivaa]

Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (later countess Yusupoff) with two of her six brothers, on October 23rd, 1903.

[loiladadiani]

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich

Xenia was pregnant and they looked happy here. They had been in love since their teens. They had seven children. In the middle of her pregnancy with the seventh he chose to tell her he had a mistress.

He constantly asked her for a divorce to marry this or that woman.There was a wealthy American. There was the wife of a sculptor who was carving his bust. He wanted to run away to Australia with most of them. There was a young nurse, who already married and years after the relationship, nursed him as he was dying. By the time he was a fifty-something, Sandro was in love with and wanted to marry someone younger than his daughter. Irina begged her mother not to give him a divorce so that he would not embarrass himself.

What was Xenía going to do? She took lovers herself (I have only read of two.) Irina hated the first one, Fane. She suffered through her parents’ marital woes.

Close to the end of his life, he wanted to go back to Xenia (there is a letter from him to her stating so- he says the opposite in his book, of course.) She was too tired and said no.

Xenia and Sandro are buried together in the South of France.

[lesromanoff]

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna with her eldest and favorite granddaughter, Princess Irina Alexandrovna.

[beautifulreblogsfromfriends]

Princess Irina Alexandrovna with her only child Irina Felixsovna Yusupova (Bebe)

Irina looks elated with her baby. Little Bebe was raised by Felix Yusupov's parents until the age of nine. Apparently, this was a bone of contention between Irina and Felix. Irina wanted to be with her child and Felix kept on calling her "selfish" (because apparently his mother also wanted the baby with her.) I do not know much detail about the circumstances.

According to what I have read, Felix though his daughter was "ungovernable." Elsewhere I have read that Bebe had a personality very similar to her parents (and this is the reason why she was ungovernable.) Unfortunately, Bebe never became very close to her mother.

[thephantomofanastasia]

Rare Interview with Prince Felix Yusupov

This is a translation into English of this 1967 interview in French: Interviewer: Prince Felix Yusupov, you killed Rasputin? Prince: Yes Interviewer: How old are you prince? Prince: Nearly eighty Interviewer: How old were you when you killed Rasputin? Prince: Twenty-nine Interviewer: Prince, are you part of the Imperial Russian family? Prince: No, but my wife is the niece of the Emperor Nicholas the Second Interviewer: Princess, were you aware of the plan of your husband? Princess: Yes, I was aware of it. Interviewer: And did you approve? Princess: Yes. Interviewer: Princess, we have said - we have repeated, that you had been in (unclear) Rasputin to his home the night of the murder? Is that true? Princess: It is not at all true. Interviewer: Why? Princess: Because I was not there, I was in Crimea. Interviewer: Prince, in the evening of your life, when you think about Rasputin again, what sentiment comes to you at the thought of him? Prince: Disgust. Interviewer: Did you have a personal interest in the murder of Rasputin? Prince: None. Interviewer: Prince, in identical circumstances, if you had to make the same decision, would you do again what you did then? Prince: Yes. Interviewer: All of your life you have refused to let anyone tell your story. The films that have been made about Rasputin have been made without your (approval). And now, for the first time you have authorized our film. And for the first time, you appear before the camera. Prince Yusupov, why? Prince: Because the other films did not tell the true story. Interviewer: The man who has just spoken to you, the man who killed Rasputin, that man will now revisit his memories.

[royal-confessions]

“Grand Duchess Tatiana, Queen Astrid of Belgium and Irina Alexandrovna could all pass as twins, too bad they never took a photo together.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[lesyoussoupoff]

Grand Duke Alexander with his daughter, Princess Irina Alexandrovna

[adini-nikolaevna]

Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia by unknown artist. From

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Princess Irina Alexandrovna in costume, 1907

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

They all were such wonderful mothers. 💞

Romanov women as loving mothers:

Empress Maria Fyodorovna with her fourth child and first daughter Xenia

Queen Olga Konstantinovna of Greece with her fifth child and second daughter Maria

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna with her second son and child Kyril

Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna with her first child and only daughter Maria

Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna with her third child and first daughter Tatiana

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna with her first child and only daughter Irina

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna with her youngest child and only son Alexei

Grand Duchess Victoria Fyodorovna with her second child and daughter Maria

Princess Maria Pavlovna of Sweden with her first child and son Lennart

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

SUPER rare photo of teenage Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna with her little niece Princess Irina Alexandrovna, 1897 🤍🌸