A Fatal Passion: The Story of Victoria Melita

[Eric_Lowe]

Kaiser Bill fixed Mary Loo wit Aribet...

Ducky was full of appreciation of the life at Windsor and Grandmama a year before her death and their divorce...

[imperial angel]

Interesting.. Victoria Melita I think had a fairly good relationship with her grandmother. She was named after her was she not, although I am not sure her name suited her. Perhaps that is why she was known as Ducky-a family nickname.

[Eric_Lowe]

Ducky was born in Malta (hense the Melita), and this plus her Russian inheritance may play a part in her character. 

[imperial angel]

Yes, it may well have. I have always thought she had a temprament more akin to those of her Romanov relatives than those of her English ones.

[Eric_Lowe]

So does Missy...It gave them as excuse to be unconventional. 

[imperial angel]

It did give them an excuse to be uncoventional, although were not they that way nevertheless? I think they just plain were uncoventional. Of course, it is true that many of the Imperial Family were uncoventional, and it was considered normal.

[Eric_Lowe]

They were not and the sisters were way ahead of their time. 

[imperial angel]

Both of them were ahead of their time and seem very modern--what they would have done in later times.

[Eric_Lowe]

Yes, especially Missy...She would have been a CEO today. 

[imperial angel]

I think so. Indeed, Marie of Roumania filled the role she was born and married into well. But she would have filled many roles well, as she had that ability to grab people- basically, she had charisma. That has got to be essential in any important position and she had it. She also had the abiliity to make people relate, or in another era, she would have used her ability to relate to people.  Ducky was perhaps more worth while to know, but Marie of Roumania was much easier to know.

[Eric_Lowe]

Missy loved society and generally had good PR with many people (except cousin Willy, Onkel Karol & Auntie Liz). Ducky was more artistic and most likely become an artist (perhaps like her Aunt Louise of Argyll). 

[imperial angel]

Yes, they had very different personalities. Both could have contributed in various ways to the world, in another era, or as they did so obviously well, in their own. Missy was simply more most people's type of person, while Ducky was not, and on the surface might have seemed much more difficult than she actually was. But of course, she was difficult.

[Eric_Lowe]

True they were differnt, but Missy & Ducky were very close and understood each other prefectly. 

[imperial angel]

They did understamd each other perfectly..I guess it is either shared blood and background or opposites attract.

[Eric_Lowe]

Indeed...They complement each other. The letters they wrote each other were very intimate...