Kira Kirillovna of Russia

Kira Kirillovna, Grand Duchess of Russia

Daughter of Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia (1876-1938) and his wife Victoria Melita, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1876-1936)

Born: Paris 9. May 1909

Chritened: Saint Trinity and Alexander Nevsky Church of the Russian Embassy in Paris 17. May 1909

Godparents:

• Nikolai II. Alexandrovich, Emperor of Russia (cousin of both her parents) 
• Maria Pavlovna the Elder, Grand Duchess of Russia (born Princess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, paternal grandmother)
• Georgi Maximilianovich Romanovsky, Herzog von Leuchtenberg (first cousin of paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother)
• The Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, maternal grandmother)
• Beatrice, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (later Infanta of Spain, maternal aunt)
• Helena, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein (born Princess of the United Kingdom, sister of maternal grandfather)

Married: Potsdam 2. May and Doorn 4. May 1938 Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907-1994)

Issue:

• Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Prussia (1939) m. 1967 (morg., div.1971) Waltraud Freydag (1940); m. 1976 (morg., div. 2004) Ehrengard v. Reden (1943); m. 2004 Sibylle Kretschmer (1952)
• Michael, Prince of Prussia (1940) m. 1966 (morg., div. 1982) Jutta Jörn (1943); m. 1982 Brigitte Dallwitz-Wegner (1939)
• Marie Cécile, Princess of Prussia (1942) m. 1965 (div. 1989) Friedrich August, Duke of Oldenburg (1936)
• Kira, Princess of Prussia (1943-2004) m. 1973 (div. 1984) Thomas Liepsner (1945)
• Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1944-1977) m. 1975 Donata, Gräfin zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1950)
• Christian-Sigismund, Prince of Prussia (1946) m.1984 Nina, Gräfin zu Reventlow (1954)
• Xenia, Princess of Prussia (1949-1992) m. 1973 (div. 1979) Per-Edvard Lithander (1945)

Died: St.Brisac-sur-Mer, France 8. Sep 1867

Buried: Hohenzollern Castle

Source: Russia: GHdA, Fürsten, Vol. VIII 1968; Prussia: GHdA, Fürsten I, Vol XIV 1991; for christening and godparents see http://macedonsky.narod.ru/english.html