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Duke Georg of Mecklenburg

George
Duke of Mecklenburg
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With parents and sisters
Head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Period 6 December 1934 – 6 July 1963
Predecessor Duke Charles Michael
Successor Duke Georg Alexander
Born 5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1899
Oranienbaum, Russia
Died 6 July 1963(1963-07-06) (aged 63)
Sigmaringen, Germany
Spouse Irina Mikhailovna Raievskya
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria
Issue Duke Georg Alexander
Count Alexander
Duchess Helene
Duke Carl Gregor
Full name
Georg Alexander Michael Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Theodor Franz
House House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Father Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg
Mother Natalia Feodorovna Vonljarskaya, Countess of Carlow
Religion Lutheranism after 1920 Roman Catholicism
Full name
Georg Alexander Michael Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Theodor Franz

George, Duke of Mecklenburg (German: Georg Herzog zu Mecklenburg; 5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1899 – 6 July 1963) was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1934 until his death. Through his father, he was a direct descendant (great-great-grandson) of Russian Emperor Paul I.

He was born in Oranienbaum, Russia as Count George of Carlow; he was the youngest child and only son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg (6 June 1859 - Saint Petersburg, 5 December 1909) and his morganatic wife (m. Remplin, 6 June 1889) Nataliya Fyodorovna Vonlar-Larskaya, Countess of Carlow (Saint Petersburg, 16 May 1858 - Cannes, 14 March 1921), daughter of Fyodor Ardalionovich Vonlar-Larsky (Dagoutze Chavli, Georgia, 23 December 1835 - 2 February 1903) and wife Mariya Fyodorovna Uvarova, and granddaughter of Ardalion Alexeievich Vonlar-Larsky, born in Poretchie, near Smolensk, and wife Tatyana, daughter of Mariya Mikhailovna Litvinova. Because his parents marriage was morganatic, at birth he was denied the title Duke of Mecklenburg; instead his title came from his mother, who had been created Countess of Carlow on 18 March 1890 by her husband's uncle Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. When his father died in 1909, his uncle Duke Charles Michael was appointed guardian of George and his sisters Katharina, Marie and Natalia by Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich V of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After the 1917 October Revolution George and his family fled Russia heading first to France before later moving to Germany.


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