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Clipped From Star Tribune.

Prince Andrew of Greece, Princess Alice begin long exile from Greece.

Source: Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota ( Wed. 06/12/1922, page 2.)

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Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna. 1930s.

I am so happy to have found these photographs as they are rare.

Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Please don't remove the watermark.

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IBERIAN ROYALTY.

King Manuel II of Portugal and King Alfonso XIII of Spain.

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Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and wife Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna with their son-in-law Prince Karl of Leiningen (husband of their eldest daughter, Maria) in 1934.

Source: vk

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Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich and family.

Victoria Melita's german accent was strong.

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Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna and Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich standing in front of their Villa in Saint Briac, Brittany. 1934.

Source: A fatal passion : the story of Victoria Melita, the uncrowned last Empress of Russia by Michael John Sullivan.

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Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838-1894) and wife Princess Marie Isabelle of Orleans, Infanta of Spain (1848-1919). 1889.

They had eight children, among them were Amélie, Queen consort of Portugal, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans and Hélène, Duchess of Aosta.

They are the great-great-grandparents of Felipe, King of Spain.

Source: Royal Collection

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King George V of Hanover.

George was born on May 27, 1819 in Berlin, the son of Ernest Augustus, then Duke of Cumberland, and his wife Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Before the family moved to Hanover in 1837, George became completely blind at the age of 14. In Hanover, as the heir to the throne, he experienced the construction of the residential city, the death of his mother Frederica(† 1841) and the beginnings of railway construction. In 1843 he married Marie, Princess of Saxe-Altenburg who bore him three children. In 1851 George became King of Hanover after the death of his father and continued to build on it unchanged.

Historical sources describe George V as a musical, intelligent and God-fearing person. In the 15 years of his reign, he called a total of 6 cabinets and commissioned several well-known buildings. (Marienburg Castle 1857-1859, Welfenschloß 1857-1866, Christuskirche 1859-1864). He pursued an idiosyncratic and reactionary policy. As a strict monarch, he abolished the liberal concessions of the 1848 constitution in 1855, thus initiating the era of the reaction that drove many loyal citizens into the opposition. As an opponent of Bismarck and with Greater German endeavors, in 1866 as a "Christian, Monarch and Welf" he rejected a Prussian ultimatum on Hanover's neutrality obligation in the conflict over occupied Holstein and as a result had to experience the annexation of his country by Prussia.

George went into exile in Vienna from where he followed the further development. Queen Marie, who initially resided at Marienburg Castle, followed him in 1867 at the Prussian urging. George later went to Paris where he died on June 12, 1878. His body was taken to Windsor Castle for his final resting place in England.