Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (later Duchess of Edinburgh and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; 17 October 1853 – 24 October 1920) was a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Maria became the wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
From 1893 until her death, she had the distinction of being a Russian Grand...
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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (later Duchess of Edinburgh and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; 17 October 1853 – 24 October 1920) was a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Maria became the wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
From 1893 until her death, she had the distinction of being a Russian Grand Duchess (by birth), a British Royal Duchess (by marriage), and the consort (and later widow) of a German Sovereign Duke.
The Duchess was born at Tsarskoye Selo, Russia, the second daughter of Alexander II, Emperor of Russia (who was assassinated in 1881) and his wife Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, legal daughter of Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, yet it was openly rumoured her father was actually Baron Augustus de Senarclens, her mother's chamberlain. She was the aunt of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia who was murdered in 1918....
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