On this day — 24th April (O.S. 11th April) 1906 — Princess of the Imperial Blood Vera Konstantinovna was born at Pavlovsk.
Vera was the youngest daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin «KR» Konstantinovich (1858-1915) and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna (1865-1927) — the couple had 9 children.
Vera was a second cousin of Emperor Nicholas II, and a childhood playmate of his younger children.
By the time she fled Bolshevik Russia in October 1918, she had already lost half of her family. Vera was the only Romanov who remembered pre-revolutionary life and her legendary relatives, including Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna [her god-mother].
Princess Vera died on 11 January 2001, at the age of 95.
