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by Susan » Sat July 18th, 2009, 12:30 pm
Today in royal history:
July 18, 1918 Murder of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia at Alapaevsk, Russia; remains were reburied at the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem
Ella, as she was called by her family, was the daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Grand Duke Louis of Hesse and by Rhine and the sister of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II. She married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, son of Tsar Alexander II. After Sergeis assassination in 1905, Ella became a nun. Ella was brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks with five other Romanovs: Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich; three sons of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, Prince Ioann Konstantinovich, Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich, Prince Igor Konstantinovich and a son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley; and another nun, Varvara. Ella and Varvara have been glorified (canonized) as saints of the Russian Orthodox Church.
July 18, 1938 Death of Marie of Edinburgh, wife of King Ferdinand I of Romania, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, at Peles Castle, Sinaia, Romania, buried at the Monastery of Curtea de Arges, Romania
July 18, 1992 - Wedding of Timothy Taylor and Lady Helen Windsor, daughter of the Duke of Kent, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle