Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna-younger, her life and relations

By contrast, Xenia depended on accommodation provided by George V and periodic financial bail-outs

Although(thought to be) in financial problems Xenia still left millions when she died,which was a surprise for most people...

If that was the case what was she doing living at the expense of her British relations?  Maybe that was evidence of her inability to deal with financial matters!

From what John van der Kiste says in his biography, Xenia had little idea about money, allowed herself to be conned by people around her, and lived beyond her means in the sense that she reduced herself to needing bail-outs by bailing out other people (generosity is one thing, but it needs to be tempered with common sense!)

Ann

I think the fact that Marie Paulovna went from man to man without finding fulfillment is a refection of her unstable nature. In the end it was her  ex-father-in-law and son (whom she neglected) that came to her rescue speaks volumes about the way she lived her life. life her father, she was selfish in her desires without concerning those in her life (her son for example).

According to the book "The Russian Court at Sea"  by Frances Welch, Xenia left 117,272.16 pounds in her will. I'm not an expert on how much that would be in today's money, but it doesn't seem like millions to me.

Quite a tidy sum if you ask me compared that to what her sister Olga Alexandrovna or Marie Paulovna the younger had...

She died in 1958, right?  Well, in simplest terms an estate of £117,272 in 1958 would be worth £2,130.00 today (using historic standard of living calculations).  But the better calculation would be the economic status value of that amount, which would be £6,150.00 today.  This second amount really means what a person of comparable wealth today would have had in 1958.

Either way, she was comfortably wealthy compared to most of us, yet less than what the Duke of Cambridge just inherited from his late mother on his 30th birthday.

Yes. But Xenia saved up that to be able to leave some to her sons. A great mother.

House prices give a reasonable feel for the value of money. In 1958 £5,000 would buy a pleasant 3-4 bedroomed house in a decent middle-class area in most parts of England.

Ann

She died in 1958, right?  Well, in simplest terms an estate of £117,272 in 1958 would be worth £2,130,000 today (using historic standard of living calculations).  But the better calculation would be the economic status value of that amount, which would be £6,150,000 today.  This second amount really means what a person of comparable wealth today would have had in 1958.

Either way, she was comfortably wealthy compared to most of us, yet less than what the Duke of Cambridge just inherited from his late mother on his 30th birthday.

Just reread my post from yesterday and realized I had placed the decimal points in the wrong place.  Corrected amounts above.

Does anyone have a photo of tHE GDss second husband and her son before he died?

Does anyone have a photo of tHE GDss second husband and her son before he died?

There's no photo of her son Roman.

This is Prince Sergei Poutiatin

http://www.rusalbom.ru/photo/default/17695

He looked very dashing.

Very dashing indeed!

I wonder why they didn't make it. There is no bio on Marie Paulovna the younger to look at her life other from her own perception. Not sure why she had such issues with men (her son & brother excluded).

Did GD Maria attened her grandmother's (queen Olga) funeral in Italy in 1926, did she say something in her book about it?