pamela18335
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Yes, but what about GD Maria's ancestors repudiating the Tsar when the revolution began? Doesn't that make them traitors to the throne and shouldn't they and their family line be barred from now asserting the claim to the throne?
I know that I'm joining this discussion rather late in the day, but I must agree with Vasillisos. After Nicholas II abdicated for himself and Alexei, and Michael refused to accept the crown unless it was the will of the people, Kyrill was the first (and only, to my knowledge) Romanov who took his regiment to the Provincial Government, wearing the red band of revolution on his arm, and swearing allegiance to the Provincial Government.
Consider what would have been Kyrill's fate had the Civil War ended with the Whites victorious. The man had committed a treasonous act. This would hardly have been rewarded with the vacant throne of Russia!
Kyrill's eligibility is also shadowed by the fact that his mother, Maria Pavlovna, was not a member of the Orthodox Church at the time of Kyrill's birth.
There is an excellent discussion of the Russian Succession here:
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which takes the discussion further, dealing with the legitimacy of Vladimir Kyrillovich's claim, and the claims of his decendents.