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ARTICLES RELATED TO Maria Alexandrovna of Russia - Marriage |  |  |  | Maria Alexandrovna of Russia - Marriage: Encyclopedia II - Maria Alexandrovna of Russia - MarriageOn 23 March 1874 at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, the Grand Duchess Marie married His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, a career naval officer. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh made their public entry into London on 12 March. The marriage, however, was not a happy one, and the bride was thought haughty by London society. Furthermore, Tsar Alexander II's insistence that his daughter be styled "Her Imperial Highness" and have precedence over the then Princess of Wales infuriated Queen Victoria. The Queen insisted that style "Her Roya ...
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 |  |  | Maria Alexandrovna of Russia - Marriage: Encyclopedia II - Maria Alexandrovna of Russia - Saxe-Coburg-GothaOn the death of his uncle, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on 22 August 1893, the vacant duchy fell to the Duke of Edinburgh, since his elder brother the Prince of Wales had renounced his right to the succession. He surrendered his British allowance of £15,000 a year and his seats in the House of Lords and the Privy Council, but retained the £10,000 granted on his marriage in order to maintain Clarence House as his London residence. Upon her husband's ascension to the ducal throne, the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna became Duche ...
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