Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovitch,his 1st wife Alexandra & their family

Just to add that Helena Victoria was not an 'English royal princess' (before someone else pulls me up!), but Volkov may not have appreciated that.

All the other royal ladies I can think of who could be called English were either too young (the Connaught girls and Alice of Albany, and probably Alexandra and Beatrice of Edinburgh) or already married.

Ann

Just to add that Helena Victoria was not an 'English royal princess' (before someone else pulls me up!), but Volkov may not have appreciated that.

Yes,she was German Princess living in England,just like Victoria Eugenia von Battenberg...

An album of GD Pavel's family.

http://photoarchive.spb.ru:9090/www/showChildObjects.do?object=2517964993&viewMode=H_100747620&language=2

Two possibilities in terms of age and unmarried state were Victoria of Wales (born 1868) and Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (born 1870) neither of whom ever married. Victoria's sister Maud may also have been a possibility, as she didn't marry until July 1896.

Ann

I always figured it was Victoria - she was known for being "difficult," although whether she was that way to begin with or became that way because of being her mother's companion I don't know. She was Nicholas II's first crush, but they were first cousins and it cooled into friendship eventually anyway, especially as he became more aware of Alix.

An album of GD Pavel's family.

http://photoarchive.spb.ru:9090/www/showChildObjects.do?object=2517964993&viewMode=H_100747620&language=2

WOW !!! These are great, and the vast majority of them are new to me! Do you think Olga may be pregnant with Vladimir in the full-length one on the first page? She certainly looks it and it was taken in St. Petersburg - the two girls were born in France after they were exiled.

How could I have forgotten that the Coburg girls were Pavel's nieces?

So the only possibilities were Victoria, Maud and Helena Victoria. Everybody else in England was too old, too young or already married.

Ann

How could I have forgotten that the Coburg girls were Pavel's nieces?

Very easily! You need a scorecard to keep up with this family! 

Was she not beside her mother in the Tuxen painting of the Danish Royal Family?

http://dkks.dk/christian-ix-and-his-family-1886

Yes, that was her. I think there is a thread somewhere on the Forum (a search might bring it up) that gives the identification for the persons in both this Tuxen painting and his painting of Queen Victoria's Jubilee family gathering.