Has anyone ever heard of Princess Xenia?

Question

My grandmother tells me, her great great grandmother, was the sister of Princess Xenia- shes a russian princess, back during some kind of war. so im like the great great great great grand-daughter, decendant of russian royalty! crazy huh??----- do any of you have royalty in your blood?

and its not like ZENA warrior princess, its pronounced, "Zen-ya" but spelt Xenia- i could see that would b confusing haha.

Answer 1

Yes, I am familiar with her.
Someone mentioned that she was the great-niece of the Tsar. That may be true.

However, during the revolution in which the Tsar and his family were overthrown, THAT era's Princess Xenia was the SISTER of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. I think that is probably who your grandmother is referring to. Congrats on your awesome family connections! If that is the correct Princess Xenia, then your grandmother is actually a g-g-g... niece of the Tsar.

Answer 2

Her Serene Highness Princess Xenia of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was born July 8, 1972 in Berlin, Germany. She is a grand-niece of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Xenia_of_Hohenlohe-Langenburg


Princess Xenia ROMANOV of Russia - There is a family tree breakdown at this site http://www.aragon10.free-online.co.uk/cilia%20la%20corte-legacy/2757.htm

Answer 3

You can read about her here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Xenia_Alexandrovna_of_Russia

Or try searching on line for info about Princess Xenia of Russia!

Answer 4

Your grandma has Alzheimers and has been watching tv to much. Xenia was a warrior Princess on tv. It is also my cats name. Your grandma probably thinks her name is Gabriell.

Answer 5

i dont know about a princess but there is a Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna Romanova, well thats all i could find in wikipedia.

Answer 6

royalty? Don't think so but I think I'm decended from a Scottish clan called the Mac Quarries.

Answer 7

Im related to a British royal knight supposedly.

Answer 8

Princess Xenia of Russia

Great-niece of the last Tsar of Russia who grew up in exile in a hunting lodge that had belonged to the Black Prince

PRINCESS XENIA OF RUSSIA, who has died aged 81, was descended twice over from the Tsars of Russia.

Her paternal grandfather, Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, was the fourth son of Grand Duke Michael, himself the fourth son of Tsar Nicholas I. Grand Duke Alexander's wife, the Grand Duchess Xenia, was sister to Tsar Nicholas II.

Her father - the Tsar's nephew - was Prince Andrew Romanoff. It was usual for princes to receive only a 15-gun salute at their births but at the insistence of his grandmother, the Tsarina Marie Dagma, he received a 21-gun salute, an honour reserved for Grand Dukes. During the Russian Revolution he was imprisoned with his parents and the Dowager Empress at Dulber, Grand Duke Peter Nicholaievitch's house in the Crimea. Narrowly escaping death, they were freed by German troops in 1918.

In December 1918, Prince Andrew and his father left Russia on board the British warship Forsythe to attend the Paris Peace Conference. Other members of the family, including the Dowager Empress and the Grand Duchess Xenia were rescued in April 1919 by two British battleships, Marlborough and Nelson, which had been sent out by King George V.

Princess Xenia was born in Paris on March 10 1919. Her father, who had settled near Faversham, Kent, at Provender, once the Black Prince's hunting lodge, had in 1918 married Elisaveta Fabrizievna, daughter of Don Fabrizio Ruffo, Duca di Sasso-Ruffo.

Princess Xenia was educated privately and spent much of her childhood at Frogmore Cottage, a grace- and-favour house in Windsor Great Park provided by the King for her grandmother, the Grand Duchess Xenia. She also spent some of her early years in London. After King George's death in 1936, her grandmother moved to Wilderness House, another house in the royal gift, at Hampton Court. There she was looked after by a possessive nun called Mother Martha.

During the war, Xenia Romanoff trained and worked as a nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Later she worked as a volunteer with the Russian Benevolent Society for Refugees. She was first married to Calhoun Ancrum, an American airman whose father was a colonel in the US Marine Corps. She followed her husband to Germany where he was assistant to General Omar Bradley. Later they lived in America, but were divorced in 1954.

She then married, in Teheran in 1958, Geoffrey Tooth, head of the Mental Health section at the Ministry of Health and a member of the Expert Advisory Panel at the WHO. His first wife, Princess Olga Galitzine, had died in 1955. During the 1970s Xenia and Geoffrey Tooth settled at Rouffignac, in the Dordogne. Her husband predeceased her.

Answer 9

i have royalty in my blood...Prince Albert (my great great grandpa) married Queen Victoria (queen of england)-making her my great great grandma- and then they had a few kids and grandchildren and one of the grandchildren include my dad and aunt....who are 1st cousins to prince andrew (england) and that makes me connected to the English Royal blood line...and related to prince william :D

Answer 10

I thought she was a warrior princess that had a show on the WB...