Yes, eventually the furor over Ducky and Kyril's marriage died down. Natasha has been called kind of a Wallis Simpson type figure, although I'm not sure she was. Natasha was after love and not at all fame or fortune. She knew the opposition her marriage faced from the Romanov family. She was not only once divorced, but I believe twice. Society looked down on divorce then, but what to many royal families was worse was marriage to a commoner. I would have liked to meet Marie Feodorovna too. She faced many things in her life, but unlike Alexandra, wife of Nicholas II, she made the best of things and was quite popular as a result. Marie Feodorovna seems to have been practical.
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