Grand Duke Kyrill, his wife Victoria Fedorovna and children, Part II

[grandduchessella]

I was shocked when I saw them! There were some with her boys, her husband, her parents, individually. I'm glad I got them when I did because those exact images were resold just last week for about 4x as much. I think the original seller didn't understand the rarity of the images and the reseller did.

[Janet Ashton]

Kyrill might be a closeted gay in all probability based upon his lack of a mistress before he married Ducky.

Kirill wrote in his memoir that he partook of everything the nightlife of Nagasaki had to offer - and he city was notorious as a haunt for western sailors, with all that implies! If he was preoccupied with his cousin Ducky from the age of about 19, it's perfectly possible that he didn't have a long-term mistress as such - but this doesn't mean he had no casual sexual encounters with women, or even a number of less serious girlfriends whose names have been lost.   

[Eric_Lowe]

Well...Japanese Samurai has very gay undertones and one or more of the Shoguns were gay...Having said that there is nothing to say that he wasn't interested in females. Although Kyrill did not have any serious girl friends for him to remember. If we put it in the timeline with Eddy & Georgie Wales, they were at sea too and they did shared a mistress. It is the absences of even such stories that make people think. This coupled with the kind of "cold fish" impression he gave others in start contrast to either Boris or Andrei make this a possibility. And this is a good chance that he could be closeted gay or bisexual. Either however would have broken Ducky's heart.

[KarlandZita]

Princess Maria of Leiningen :

[Eric_Lowe]

Marie did not look very pretty but appeared glamorous here. I think she resembled her grandmother Miechen a lot in her looks.

[slavona]

 Ducky probable at Balcic

[slavona]

 Ducky at Cotroceni


  Ducky, Kirill, Kira, Vladimir

[slavona]

Ducky as Joan of Darc, cca 1880

[Sweet_Angel]

The photo you posted earlier is taken Balcic, it is several photos of Marie and her sister Victoria Melita taken at that day.

[Eric_Lowe]

I think it was Ducky's time of depression that Missy took her away for rest and talk.

[slavona]

Kiryll and Xenia


Kira and Sibylla of Saxa Coburg

[slavona]

  

[Eric_Lowe]

Not too many pictures of Ducky as Grand Duchess of Russia. Apart from giving parties I wonder how she fill her days ?

[Svetabel]

Please post here the photos of Victoria Melita of the period when she was a Grand Duchess of Russia. The images of her as GDss of Hesse or a Princess of Great Britain (childhood) should be at the proper threads in the Hesse and Windsor subforums.

[Eric_Lowe]

I wonder if Ducky's letters to her children curvive since they were not quoted or used in her biographies.