Born: 4 November 1811, Rio de Janeiro
Married: 1) Amelie of the Two Sicilies (1818-1857)
2) Maria Christina (1833-1902)
Died: 13 February 1875, Pau
Serge, Prince Romanovsky, Prince of of Leuchtenburg
Born: 20 December 1849, St. Petersburg
Son of: Maximilian (1817-1852) & Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1819-1876)
Killed in action: 24 October 1877
“Good looking and very pleasing, but very delicate.” (Queen Victoria, 1869)
Serge Alexandrovich, Grand Duke of Russia
Born: 1857
Son of: Alexander II (1818-1881) & Marie of Hesse
Married: Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt (1864-1918 – murdered by Bolsheviks)
Died: Murdered by an assassin’s bomb 17 February 1905, Moscow
“[He] was possessed of a unique personality and of a character that remained to me, to the very day of his death, incomprehensible….He was tall…he had broad shoulders above a body excessively thin. He wore a small beard closely trimmed. His hair, which was thick, was cut short and so brushed as to stand up briskly all over his head. In characteristic posture he stood erect, head up, chest out; his elbows would be drawn closely in towards his sides, and with the fingers of one hand he toyed with a jewelled ring he habitually wore on the little finger of the other. When he was vexed or surly, his lips would be compressed to one crisp straight line and his eyes became little hard points of light. Cold, inflexible, the world called him, and not without cause, but towards Dmitri and me he displayed a tenderness almost feminine. Despite which, he demanded of us, as of all his household or following, exact and immediate obedience….Introspective, essentially diffident, his true spirit imprisoned with him, he hid private impulses of exceeding sensitiveness…Those few who knew him well were deeply devoted to him, but even his intimates feared him, and Dmitri [her brother] and I feared him too.” (His ward and niece, Maria Pavlovna the Younger)
“Serge will captivate you when you know him I am sure. There is something quiet and gentle, in fact rather melancholy about him, and his appearance and manners have something high bred and distingué which one misses in some of his brothers.” (Empress Frederick)
“I am glad to hear Serge speaks so nicely of me. I think we shall get on very well, though he is a Russian and carries off my grandchild…But he looks so thin and delicate in his photographs that I am quite alarmed at it. It’s a very thoughtful, nice countenance.” (Queen Victoria)
Serge Mikhailovich, Grand Duke of Russia
Born: 7 October 1869, Borjorn
Son of: Mikhail (1832-1909) & Cecile of Baden (1839-1891)
Died: Murdered by Bolsheviks, 18 July 1918, Alapaevsk
“Early in his life his habit of looking perennially hurt earned him the nickname ‘Monsieur Tant Pis’. He was a close friend of Nicky’s for forty years.” (His brother, Alexander Mikhailovich)
Serge, Prince Romanovsky of Leuchtenburg
Born: 16 July 1890, Peterhof
Son of: George (1852-1912) & Anastasia of Montenegro (1868-1935)
Died: 7 January 1974, Rome
Sigismund (‘Sigi’) Prince of Prussia
Born: 15 February 1864, Potsdam
Son of: Frederick (1831-1888) & Victoria of Great Britain (1840-1901)
Died of meningitis: 8 June 1866, Potsdam
“The greatest darling I have ever seen - so wonderfully strong and advanced for his age - with such fine colour, always laughing and so lively he nearly jumps out of our arms.” (His aunt, Princess Alice)
“The serious illness of poor little Sigismund…is really dreadful for poor Vicky and Fritz, and they are so fond of that merry little child.” (Princess Alice)
Sigismund (‘Bobby’) Prince of Prussia
Born: 1896
Son of: Henry (1862-1929) & Irene of Hesse (1866-1953)
Married: Charlotte Agnes of Saxe-Altenburg (1899-1989)
Children: Barbara, Alfred
Died: 1978
Sigvard, Prince of Sweden, Duke of Uppland
Born: 1907
Son of: King Gustav & Margaret of Connaught
Married: 1) Erika Patzeck (1911- )
2) Sonja Robbert (1909-2006)
3) Marianne Lindberg (1924- )
Died: 1902
Simon Casimir, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld
Born: 24 September 1900, Potsdam
Son of: Frederick William (11858-1914) & Gisela of Isenburg (1871-1964)
Married: Ilse Splittgerber (1909 - )
Died: 9 December 1980
Sisto (Sixte), Prince of Bourbon-Parma
Born: 1896
Son of: Roberto I (1848-1909( & Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862-1959)
Married: Hedwig de la Rochefoucauld (1896-1986)
Died: 1934
Sizzo, Prince of Schwartzburg
Born: 1860
Son of: Frederick Gunther (1793-1867)
Married: Alexandra of Anhalt (1868-1958)
Children: Frederick Gunther, Irene, Marie Antoinette
Died: 1926
Stephen Franz, Archduke of Austria, Palatine of Hungary (until 1848)
Born: 1817
Died: 1967
Stephan, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Born: 21 June 1891Stasdtliagen
Son of: George II (1846-1911) & Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864-1918)
Married: Ingeborg of Oldenburg (1901-1996)
Children: Marie Alix, George, a son who died as a baby
Died: 10 February 1965
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