caption father house death_date mother birth_place death_place title image_size birth_date spouse issue image article_title name
audrey with her first husband , dmitri pavlovich . john josiah emery house of holstein-gottorp-romanov 25 november 1971 lela alexander cincinnati , ohio , united states west palm beach , florida , united states princess romanovskaya-ilyinskaya 200px 4 january 1904 grand duke dmitri pavlovich of russia prince dimitri djordjadze prince paul dmitriievich romanovsky-ilyinsky dmitri pavlovich e esposa.jpg audrey emery
 audrey emery
audrey emery

anna audrey emery -lrb- 4 january 1904 -- 25 november 1971 -rrb- was an american heiress and socialite who was the wife of one of the last russian grand dukes .
born in cincinnati , ohio , she was the youngest daughter of john josiah emery , a real-estate millionaire , and his wife , the former lela alexander -lrb- later the hon. mrs. alfred anson -rrb- .
she had two sisters , alexandra -lrb- mrs. benjamin moore and mrs. robert gordon mckay -rrb- and lela -lrb- mrs. alastair mackintosh and duchess of talleyrand -rrb- , and two brothers , thomas emery and john josiah emery , jr. -lrb- who married irene gibson post , the daughter of the artist charles dana gibson -rrb- .
she married , morganatically , in 1926 , grand duke dmitri pavlovich of russia , an exile after the 1917 russian revolution .
grand duke cyril vladimirovich of russia , dmitri 's cousin , elevated audrey to russian rank of `` knyaginya '' -lrb- noble , not dynastic -rrb- with the usual name `` romanovsky '' and granted her the suffix , `` ilyinsky '' , from dmitri 's former property in russia .
in 1928 , she gave birth to her only child , prince paul romanoff-ilyinsky .
in 1937 she divorced dmitri and moved to france with her son , marrying that same year a member of a princely house of georgia , prince dimitri djordjadze ; that marriage also ended in divorce .
after the end of both marriages , she resumed her maiden name and was known legally and socially as mrs. audrey emery .
in the 1940s she lived in south carolina , later moving to biarritz , france .
over the years , she owned several houses in palm beach , florida .
in the 1960s she built a house in cincinnati , ohio , to which she moved in order to be closer to her son and his family .
she died in palm beach , florida .
in 1992 , her son , paul ilyinsky , who had become an american citizen , served in the u.s. marine corps , and was a three-time mayor of palm beach , florida , technically succeeded as head of the ducal and princely house of holstein-gottorp .
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