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Paul, the youngest grand ducal son of Alexander II, was emotionally fragile, a spoiled youngest son, and unfortunate in his love life. He was at least half in love with his beautiful neglected sister-in-law, Ella. He married first the Greek princess Alexandra, daughter of King George, Minnie’s Danish favorite brother, and George’s Romanov wife, Olga Constantinovna. For a while the two couples, Sergei with Ella, and Paul with Alexandra, shared an idyllic life, taking trips abroad together and enjoying Sergei’s country estate at Ilinskoye. Alexandra and Paul happily had their first daughter, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (Junior, to distinguish her from Miechen, her older namesake). But when Alexandra was pregnant for the second time, their idyll collapsed. Alexandra was careless on a boating trip at Ilin-skoye and gave birth prematurely to a boy. She died. The boy survived, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. Paul, restless and desperately unhappy, virtually abandoned the two children and left Russia.

The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga - John Curtis Perry and Constantine V Pleshakov