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OTMAA Contemporaries: Princess Mary.

The only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, she born on 25 April 1897, making her just a few weeks older than Tatiana Nikolaevna.

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, 1919.

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OTMAA Contemporaries: The Children of King George V.

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Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.

Born in 1900, Henry was the third son and fourth child of King George V and Queen Mary. He attended Eton where he befriended fellow OTMAA contemporary, Leopold (III) of Belgium. While his elder brother Edward (David) was usually the one linked to OTMA in royal marriage gossip, a few articles went so far as to point out that there were sons enough for all of OTMA and they were all close in age, so there could be more than one British-Russian alliance. Henry himself was between Maria and Anastasia in age.

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Princess Margareta of Sweden, born 25 June 1899.

Princess Margareta was a second cousin of OTMAA through the Danish line; her mother Ingeborg was the daughter of Maria Feodorovna's eldest brother Frederick. She and her sisters, Marta and Astrid, met OTMAA a few times in their childhood, and Margareta seemed to keep in touch with Maria Nikolaevna in particular, likely because they were almost exactly the same age; Margareta was only one day older. Letters exist from Margareta to "dear cousin Marie."

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Princess Mafalda of Savoy, born 1902.

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Princess Mary with three of her brothers.

From left: Albert (the future King George VI), George (future Duke of Kent) and Henry (future Duke of Gloucester).

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OTMAA Contemporaries: The Italian Royal Children.

From left: Princess Mafalda (1902), Princess Yolanda (1901), Princess Giovanna (1907), and Prince Umberto (1904). They would eventually joined by Princess Maria Francesca (1914).

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OTMAA Contemporaries: The Italian Royal Family.

From left: Yolanda (1901) with Maria Francesca (1914), Umberto (1904), Mafalda (1902) and Giovanna (1907). Like OTMAA, there were four sisters and only one brother; but in this case, the brother was the middle child. This generation of Italian royalty did have some Romanov connections, as their mother, Queen Elena, was born a princess of Montenegro, and her sisters Militza and Anastasia had married into the Romanov family. Therefor the young Italian royals were first cousins of Roman Petrovich and his sisters Marina and Nadejda. Another aunt, Zorka, had married into the Serbian royal family, and the Italians also counted King Alexander of Serbia/Yugoslavia and his sister, Elena Petrovna, who married Prince Ioann Konstantinovich, among their cousins.

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Umberto and his sister Maria Francesca

Like their Russian counterparts, there were four girls and only one boy in the Italian royal family. Unlike OTMAA, however, the male heir was the middle child. Umberto was born in the third of five children in 1904--the same year as Alexei--and Maria Francesca was the fifth child, born ten years later in 1914. Their other sisters were Yolanda (1901), Mafalda (1902) and Giovanna (1907).

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Marie-Jose and Leopold of Belgium

Leopold (1901) and Marie-Jose (1906) were the eldest and youngest children of Queen Elisabeth (center) and King Albert (tallest man on the right). There was another brother, Charles, born in 1903. They did not know OTMAA personally, but in her memoirs Marie-Jose wrote that her mother was always upset by the Romanov tragedy, and recalled a time after WWI when Queen Elisabeth confronted King George V about not doing more to save Nicholas II and his family. Elisabeth also visited Empress Maria Feodorovna in Denmark, and Maria Feodorovna commented she didn't like the new fashion of hats that covered half of someone's face, which Elisabeth was wearing at the time and is wearing in this photo as well!

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The then-Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor) and his brother Prince George, Duke of Kent.

Unlike his cousin Nicholas II, George V had several sons and only one daughter. Edward (known by friends and family as David), was the eldest, born in 1894, and George was the fourth, born in 1902. During OTMA's lifetime the press loved to suggest that one of the girls (usually Olga but sometimes Tatiana and even more rarely, Maria) would marry Edward one day and become Queen.

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Princess Mary

Born in April of 1897, Princess Mary was the only daughter of King George V, and just a few months older than her second cousin, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna.

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Princess Mary

Much has made about Nicholas II and George V as lookalike cousins, but when it came to their children, they were opposites. Nicholas famously had four daughters and only one son; George, on the other hand, had five sons and only one daughter: Princess Mary. Born in 1897, she was a few months older than her second cousin Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna. Her two older brothers, Edward and Albert, both became kings: Edward VIII and George VI.

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Belgian Royal Family

From left: Princess Marie-Jose, Crown Prince Leopold, Crown Princess Astrid (in back), Queen Elisabeth, King Albert I, and Prince Charles. The Belgians were distantly related to Alix and OTMAA via that Saxe-Coburg line, as King Leopold I, the first King of the Belgians, was the beloved uncle of Queen Victoria. Prince Leopold (future King Leopold III), was born in 1901, Prince Charles in 1903, and Princess Marie-Jose in 1906. Leopold's wife, Astrid of Sweden, was more closely related to OTMAA through the Danish family: her mother Ingeborg was a Danish princess and a first cousin of Nicholas II. There are photos of OTMAA with Astrid and her sisters in their childhoods.

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