Marriage and Issue
He married Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882–1957), daughter of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia and Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the only sister of the future Russian imperial pretender, Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, on 29 August 1902 in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia.
They had three daughters:
- Olga (1903–1997). Married Prince Paul of Yugoslavia.
- Elizabeth (1904–1955). Married Count Carl Theodor of Toerring-Jettenbach.
- Marina (1906–1968). Married Prince George, Duke of Kent.
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“Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Our home has been nothing but a play-room. I’ve been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa’s doll-child. And the children have been my dolls in their turn. I liked it when you came and played with me, just as they liked it when I came and played with them. That’s what our marriage has been, Torvald.”
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)