Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia

Princess of the Imperial Blood Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, was the youngest child of Grand Duke Konstantine Konstantinovich of Russia and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna. A great-granddaughter of Nicholas I of Russia, she was born in Russia and was a childhood playmate of the younger children of Nicholas II of Russia. She lost much of her family during World War I and the Russian Revolution. At age twelve, she escaped revolutionary Russia, fleeing with her mother and brother George to Sweden. She spent the rest of her long life in exile, first in Western Europe and from the 1950s in the United States.