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252:. Their daughter Irina was born on 21 December 1903. In 1904, Grand Duke Paul arranged through Prince Regent Leopold of Bavaria for his wife and their children to be granted the hereditary title of Count/Countess von Hohenfelsen, with a coat of arms. They settled in Paris and bought a house in Boulogne-sur-Seine that previously belonged to Princess Zenaide Ivanovna Youssoupoff. It was there that Natalia was born in 1905, completing their family. Paul and Olga employed a household staff of sixteen maids, gardeners, cooks, and tutors and were avid art and old porcelain collectors. Vladimir, Irina, and Natalia had a happy and privileged upbringing and, for a time, were utterly protected from the outside world. Though their parents had a busy social life, the children were very close to them, and they ate their meals together, an unusual custom for children of their time and station. On Sundays, the whole family would enter the Russian church on rue Daru, but they would only attend private mass with the priest who had christened Natalia. 424: 476: 642: 359: 261: 665:. After divorcing Lelong on 24 May 1937, Princess Natalia married Wilson on 8 September 1937 in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was a marriage of convenience. Wilson was intelligent, rich and a good companion. Princess Natalia's name and social skills were assets to his business as a Broadway producer. Princess Natalia liked her husband's humor, and his homosexuality suited her distaste for physical love. The couple, who would not have children, settled in an apartment in 499:, he was then married and the father of a little girl. With her aristocratic background and her delicate features, Natalia was an asset for Lelong's business. Lucien Lelong divorced his wife, Anne-Marie Audoy, on 16 July 1927. Lelong was known for his homosexual affairs, but he offered her wealth and security. Against her family's opinion, who considered the union a misalliance, Princess Natalia and Lucien Lelong married in a 537: 29: 386:. Grand Duke Paul, who was too ill to travel, initially escaped the fate of his son. He was arrested on 30 July and sent to Spalernaia prison, where he would remain for most of his incarceration. In desperation, Olga left her two youngest daughters, Irina and Natalia, aged 14 and 12, under the care of their English governess, moving with her daughter 347:, Natalia and her family remained in their palace under increasingly deteriorating conditions after the Bolsheviks rise to power in October 1917. By early January 1918, they could no longer afford to heat their large Tsarkoe Selo palace, and they were forced to move to an English dacha at Tsarkoe Selo that belonged to 336:
took advantage of this to make them carry out all his desires. In rehearsing them in the plays he wrote he worked them mercilessly for hours on end. Highly flattered by his attention his sisters endured patiently all his rudeness, his scoldings, even his slaps. He often made them cry, yet they always
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movies. At twelve, I was taking some bread to my father in jail. How could I have been like them? I was mute, I would not play. But I was reading a lot. I had faced death, so close. My father, my brother, my cousins, my uncles, executed, all Romanov's blood splashed on my adolescence. This gave me a
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with their mother and their half-sister, Marianne. Worried about her daughters, Olga, with the help of a few remaining friends, organized Irina and Natalia' escape. In early December, the girls left their mother and took a streetcar to the train station of Ochta. After a four-hour trip in a cattle
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Lelong's reputation grew with the help of his wife, whose taste was exquisite. Ethereal and glamorous, Princess Natalia would not follow any fashion trend, but would dictate her own. Hats and gloves were her signature. With deep-set gray eyes and pale blond hair, she became a sought-after model,
415:. Taken to a sanatorium in Ranha, they anxiously awaited their parents' arrival. Their father never made it. Grand Duke Paul was killed in January 1919 and tossed into a heap along with the bodies of other victims. The following month, Princess Olga joined her daughters in Finland. 783:
where, against the advice of her last two friends who feared a fatal outcome, surgeons decided to operate on the same night. Princess Natalia died at dawn on 27 December 1981, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. She was buried in the churchyard of the First Presbyterian Church in
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At the fall of the Russian monarchy in March 1917, instead of leaving the country, Grand Duke Paul and his wife, not seeing the dangers ahead, decided to stay in their luxurious estate amid the upheaval. As Tsar Nicholas II and his family were sent to internal exile in
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After the death of her husband, Princess Natalia withdrew from society. In the last two decades of her life, she lived as a recluse, surrounded by her pets in her Manhattan apartment. Her only hobbies were watching television and crosswords. She developed
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During the 1950s, Wilson's career declined. He was a heavy drinker and became mentally imbalanced. Natalia tried to help him, but he was self-destructive. Confined to a wheelchair, often violent, and in a state of increasing
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Though they shared the same infatuation for the arts and fashion, the marriage of Princess Natalia and Lelong was not a success. Too involved with his work and in love with one of his famous models who was doomed to die of
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affected Princess Natalia only because her family and friends were living abroad. Though she went back to France in 1947, she spaced out her trips to Europe and spent more time in her luxurious residence: an apartment on
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to be closer to her husband's prison. Irina and Natalia, accompanied by their governess, were allowed to pay two visits to their father. The sisters lived alone with the servants until October, when Grand Duke Boris's
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in a luxurious palace filled with antiques and objects of art. In Russia, Natalia became close to her maternal grandmother, her half-sisters, and half-brothers. Three months after they had settled into their new life,
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who offered her a job in his fashion house. She began to work initially in the perfume department, moving soon to model the house's designs. Lelong had inherited his famous fashion house from his father. A hero of
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As a child, Natalia was gay and animated, described as having a turned-up nose, pink cheeks and beautiful blonde curls. Her childhood was described by her older half-sister in her memoirs:
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Her parents had met in St. Petersburg in 1895 when Olga Karnovich was married to an officer, by whom she had three children. Grand Duke Paul already was the father of two; his first wife,
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taste for sad things, poetry, the icy and lightning antechamber of death. Soon, my classmates understood me. And respected the way I was, as strange as it may have seemed.
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wagon, they jumped into the snow and took a horse-drawn sleigh. Finally, they walked for miles in the frigid night air. After thirty-two hours of traveling, they reached
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took up a new play with the same enthusiasm and did not in the least appreciate it when I or some other grown-up tried to protect them from Volodia's arbitrary tyranny."
324:, joined a regiment. Though he was in poor health, Natalia's father, Grand Duke Paul, ignoring his doctor's advice, left to take command of a Guards regiment in 1916. 248:, Italy, on 10 October 1902. Grand Duke Paul and Olga were still vacationing in Rome when they were forbidden to return to Russia by Paul's nephew, the reigning 366:
In March 1918, the revolution tightened its grip. All male members of the Romanov family, including Natalia's brother Vladimir, were ordered to register at
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and bought another in one of the upper-class neighborhoods of Paris in the 16th district. With her few remaining jewels, Princess Olga bought a villa in
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and progressively lost her vision. Her blindness isolated her further. Letters and phone calls to her sister Irina were rare. In the 1970s, her nephew,
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establishing an image for herself in the Parisian elite and becoming a well-known socialite. As a model, she appeared in many magazines, including
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headquarters, and shortly after they were sent away into internal Russian exile. They never saw Vladimir again. He was executed by the
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She was born as Countess Natalia Pavlovna von Hohenfelsen at her parents' home, 2 Avenue Victor Hugo (now 4 Avenue Robert Schuman), in
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on 9 August 1927. A religious ceremony took place the next day at the Orthodox church Saint Alexander Nevsky. Theirs was a
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In December 1981, Princess Natalia suffered a fall in her bathroom. Doctors diagnosed a fracture of the
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During the war, the German title of Count/Countess von Hohenfelsen was deemed inappropriate due to
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During one of the Charity Bazaars her mother gave every year, Princess Natalia, age 21, met
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In January 1912, Tsar Nicholas II forgave his only living uncle for marrying
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Opposite Attraction: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard
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Natalia Paley worked as a model during the late 1920s and early 1930s
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The Romanovs in the 21st Century: a genealogical Biography
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Once in exile, Princess Paley and her daughters moved to
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Natalia Paley with her second husband, John C. Wilson
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The sisters came back to Paris, where Irina married
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She became a fashion model, socialite, 39:Countess Natalia Pavlovna von Hohenfelsen 640: 535: 474: 427:Princesses Irina, Olga and Natalia Paley 422: 357: 259: 133: 16:Member of the Romanov family (1905–1981) 1602:Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic 1533:Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic 913:Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia 755:, he died in November 1961, at age 62. 274:Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia 227:Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia 191:Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia 149:Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia 1653: 1407: 1391: 1050: 1046: 1036: 928: 818: 814: 479:Natalia Paley with her first husband, 1706:French emigrants to the United States 1597:. Royalty Digest Quarterly. 2007 N 1. 1204: 1201: 1191: 1179: 1169: 1165: 1161: 1149: 1143: 1133: 1120: 1110: 1106: 1094: 1091: 1081: 1068: 1058: 1054: 1030: 1020: 1004: 994: 990: 978: 972: 962: 946: 936: 932: 916: 910: 900: 884: 874: 870: 858: 852: 842: 826: 822: 700:. Later, she moved to another one on 470:Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia 975:Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine 1489:"Princess Paley Wed in Fairfield", 804:Ancestors of Natalia Pavlovna Paley 270:Alexander Erikovich von Pistohlkors 103: 13: 770:Prince Michel Feodorovich Romanoff 362:Princesses Natalia and Irina Paley 298:tercentenary of the Romanov family 14: 1737: 1595:The English Dacha at Tsarkoe Selo 1535:(Da Capo Press, 2004), pages 125+ 1424:The English Dacha at Tsarkoe Selo 1402:The English Dacha at Tsarkoe Selo 1385:Education of A Princess, A Memoir 1092:6. Valerian Gavrilovich Karnovich 1069:12. Gavriil Stepanovich Karnovich 418: 280:, Princess Natalia Paley, Prince 272:, Olga Erikovna von Pistohlkors, 255: 1711:People from Boulogne-Billancourt 1701:French people of Russian descent 1696:Nobility from the Russian Empire 399:, and the sisters were evicted. 237:, who was of Hungarian descent. 99: 1611:. Paris, Robert Laffont, 1999. 1573: 1538: 1525: 1518:"Ex-Princess Becomes Citizen", 1512: 1483: 1033:Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley 560:She bought an apartment on the 175:Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley 129: 95: 1376: 1251: 1121:13. Lyubov Alexeevna Goryainov 758: 685:were favorite vacation spots. 568:, the former wife of director 349:Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich 1: 1716:20th-century French actresses 887:Princess Charlotte of Prussia 673:. They traveled extensively: 216: 136:; died 1961) 1676:Morganatic issue of Romanovs 1275:The Private Life of Don Juan 1007:Princess Wilhelmine of Baden 721:naturalized American citizen 704:. She also had a cottage in 597:The Private Life of Don Juan 507:, a union without intimacy. 382:and his immediate family at 242:Princess Alexandra of Greece 7: 1202:7. Olga Vasilyevna Meszaros 1146:Olga Valerianovna Karnovich 795: 731:and became a confidante of 355:himself rode in their car. 235:Olga Valerianovna Karnovich 159:Olga Valerianovna Karnovich 10: 1742: 1048: 922: 816: 712:, and a large property in 1625:. Harry N. Abrams, 2001. 1544:Julie Goldsmith Gilbert, 1185: 1167: 1163: 1155: 1127: 1108: 1100: 1075: 1056: 1052: 1014: 992: 984: 956: 934: 930: 894: 872: 864: 836: 820: 779:. She was transported to 637:Life in the United States 201:, she emigrated first to 182: 168:Actress, model, socialite 164: 154: 144: 71: 57: 35: 26: 21: 1306: 733:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 610:(1935), a film starring 649:Upon her return to the 562:Esplanade des Invalides 1621:Vassiliev, Alexandre. 1607:Mitterrand, Frédéric. 1604:, Da Capo Press, 2004. 1548:(Pantheon Books, 1995) 855:Alexander II of Russia 727:. She was a friend of 714:Fairfield, Connecticut 646: 541: 531:George Hoyningen-Huene 483: 466: 428: 363: 340: 289: 183:Наталья Павловна Палей 22:Natalia Pavlovna Paley 1681:French film actresses 659:John C. "Jack" Wilson 644: 619:(Les Hommes nouveaux) 539: 490:, a prominent French 478: 453: 426: 361: 329: 314:anti German sentiment 263: 1686:French female models 1671:Actresses from Paris 1583:. Flammarion, 2010. 829:Nicholas I of Russia 737:Erich Maria Remarque 579:(1933), directed by 388:Marianne Pistohlkors 286:Marianne Pistohlkors 278:Princess Irina Paley 264:From left to right: 98: 1927; 51:Boulogne-Billancourt 745:Shadows in Paradise 627:Les Hommes nouveaux 575:Her first film was 266:Princess Olga Paley 67:New York City, U.S. 1579:Coudert, Thierry. 1520:The New York Times 1493:, 9 September 1937 1491:The New York Times 1286:(1935; uncredited) 781:Roosevelt Hospital 647: 542: 529:, André Durst and 484: 437:Boulogne-sur-Seine 429: 364: 290: 223:Boulogne-sur-Seine 199:Russian Revolution 1691:French socialites 1645:978-3-639-17480-9 1522:, 9 February 1941 1248: 1247: 1244: 1243: 657:. 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Index


Boulogne-Billancourt
Lucien Lelong
John C. Wilson
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
Olga Valerianovna Karnovich
Russian
Romanov family
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
Nicholas II
Russian Revolution
France
United States
Boulogne-sur-Seine
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
morganatic
Olga Valerianovna Karnovich
Princess Alexandra of Greece
Livorno
Tsar Nicholas II

Princess Olga Paley
Alexander Erikovich von Pistohlkors
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
Princess Irina Paley
Vladimir Paley
Marianne Pistohlkors
morganatically
tercentenary of the Romanov family
Tsarskoe Selo

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