Prince Vladimir Emmanuelovich Galitzine

Prince Vladimir Emanuelovich Galitzine (17 June 1884 – 13 July 1954) was a Russian émigré who lived in England. He was the Chairman of the Russian Society of Support to Russian Emigrants in England.

Early life Galitzine was born on 17 June 1884 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Career

In 1907, Prince Galitzine graduated with honours from the Imperial Lyceum in Moscow. He then moved to St. Petersburg and enlisted as a volunteer in the Horse-Guards Regiment of The Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna; soon he passed his exams and become an officer. On the eve of the World War I, he was invited to become aide-de-camp to the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, commander in chief of the Imperial Russian Army up until 1915, then Viceroy to the Caucasus. Galitzine emigrated from post Revolutionary Russia in June 1919, arranged by his aunt, Princess Helen of Saxe-Altenburg on a British Naval vessel HMS Grafton from Novorossiysk (accompanied by the HMS Marlborough which carried the Tsar's sister, Grand Duchess Xenia and her children, and the Empress Dowager Maria Feodorovna), arriving in Taranto, Italy and gradually making their way as a family to Rome, Paris and eventually arriving in London in July 1919. by setting up an Art and Antiques shop in Berkeley Street, in Mayfair, of which Queen Mary was a regular customer. The family were nationalised as British in 1933. He became known as a leader of the White Russian émigré colony in London. They initially settled at Coulsdon, Surrey then Nevern Square before they began renting the Georgian country house Chessington Hall in Surrey (the home from which Frances Burney wrote Evelina in 1778), she was also distantly related to the Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent. Together, they were the parents of:

Nikolai "Nicholas" Vladimirovich Galitzine (1914–1999), They divorced in 1955 and he married Anita Frisch, a daughter of Harald Frisch, in 1956. George Vladimirovich Galitzine (1916–1992), who married Baroness Anne Marie von Slatin, a daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir Rudolf von Slatin, in 1943. He later married British fashion model Jean Dawnay in 1963. and his time as a Spitfire pilot is found in The Daily Telegraph 9th January 2003.

After his first wife was killed in October 1940 by a bomb during the first days of The Blitz in World War II, he married Mabel Iris ( FitzGeorge) George (1886-1976), widow of Robert Shekelton Balfour and daughter of Col. George FitzGeorge, from whom Mabel was descended from King George III through the king's grandson, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and his mistress Sarah Fairbrother. From her first marriage, she was the mother of Sir Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour.

Prince Galitzine died on 13 July 1954 in a nursing home in London. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery in West Brompton. His widow died in London on 13 April 1976.