Marriage
Irina married her first cousin once removed Prince Fyodor Alexandrovich of Russia (1898–1968), son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, on May 21, 1923 in Paris. They later had a son, Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia, on 4 May 1924.
Irina began an affair with Count Hubert de Monbrison (15 August 1892 – 14 April 1981) during her marriage to Fyodor, and bore Hubert a daughter Irene Romanov on 7 May 1934, while still married to Fyodor. She and Feodor were divorced on 22 July 1936. Irina married Hubert on 11 April 1950 in Paris.
Irina died in Paris on 15 November 1990. Her son and daughter both have descendants.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“Always the same old story—
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you’ve made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors—neutral gray.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
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—Barbara Cartland (b. 1901)