Announcement on the Birth of Princess Kira-Léonida Georgievna

BY THE GRACE OF GOD

WE

THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIA OF RUSSIA

HEAD OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL HOUSE

are pleased to announce that

on June 2, 2025, Our daughter-in-law, Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Romanovna, the spouse of Our son and heir, His Imperial Highness The Tsesarevich and Grand Duke George of Russia, was delivered of a daughter, Our granddaughter, who has been given the name Kira in honour the Holy Venerable St. Kira of Beroea (in Macedonia).

Welcoming this new addition to Our Family as a sign of God’s grace, granted us for Our consolation, we ask all Our countrymen to offer fervent prayers to the Almighty for the health and well-being of the newborn. In accordance with Our current Family Law and the Family Act of September 14/27, 2020, Our granddaughter shall be called Her Serene Highness Princess Kira Georgievna.

Issued in Madrid, this second day of June in the year of our Lord 2025, in the thirty-fourth year of Our succession to the rights and duties of Our August Ancestors - the Emperors of Russia.

[The original is signed in Her Imperial Highness’s Own hand:]

MARIA