Titles and Heritage
Paul is regarded by some to have become a "Prince and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein-Gottorp" as his birthright (source: Theroff). As such, his style was Serene Highness, and his titles, which he never used, included "Heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn and Dithmarschen" as well as "Duke and Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst". Where a dynasty's house law or customs were silent on the equality requirement, German princely law was deemed to apply, and by the 19th century, marriages to commoners were held to be non-dynastic for all formerly immediate German dynasties of the Holy Roman Empire.
He held British and U.S. citizenship.
At the death of Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia in 1992, Paul Ilyinsky succeeded as the Head of the House of Holstein-Gottorp (de jure Duke of Holstein-Gottorp ), which in accordance with the 1604 Norrköping Succession Pact holds its rights to the Swedish throne as well as to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Finland (there reiterated for example in the 1772 Constitution and the 1809 Oaths of Fealty), inherited through his ancestress Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, the eldest sister of the childless Charles XII of Sweden.
Sources: Paul Theroff, Online Gotha
- Guy Stair Sainty, the Russian imperial succession
- 1772 constitution (Instrument of Government of the Grand Duchy of Finland)
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