Word: vladimirovitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch Romanoff, 66, the late Grand Duke Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper...
...tuberculosis; in Davos, Switzerland. Handsome Dmitri in 1916 helped Prince Felix Youssoupov with the patriotic liquidation (poison, many shots) of "Mad Monk" Rasputin, close adviser of the Tsarina. After the revolution, Dmitri was in line for pretendership to the throne, refused it in favor of his cousin Cyril Vladimirovitch. In 1926 he married American Heiress Audrey Emery (40 millions), was divorced in 1937. Dmitri was a brother of Grand Duchess Marie (Education of a Princess), half-brother of Princess Natalie Paley (Mrs. John C. Wilson...