she did receive a pay-out from the German courts, when the Tsar's estate in Germany was shared between all his heirs, but hyper-inflation had reduced its value. She continued to sell anything she could in a desperate attempt to raise cash. In 1940, as Nathalie Majolier, her daughter published a book of family memoirs, Step-Daughter of Imperial Russia. During World War II, Natalia and her daughter were separated as Natalia lived in Paris, and her daughter was in Britain. They were unable to communicate with each other until after the war, by which time Natalia was penniless and lived as a refugee in an attic box-room. On 23 January 1952, she died of cancer at the Laënnec charity hospital in Paris in complete poverty, and was buried in Passy Cemetery (Section 9, near the intersection with the outer wall and Section 8) in Paris beside her son George, Count Brasov. Natalia‘s grand-daughter Alexandra Majolier married Cyril B. Crowson in Kensington in 1959. Her daughter Nathalie Majolier died in Redbridge in 1969, two years after her husband. Pauline Gray, Natalia’s grand-daughter, is the author of The Grand Duke's Woman, a study of her grandmother published in 1976. Notes References Azar, Helen; Nicholson, Nicholas (2020), Michael Romanov: Brother of the Last Tsar. Diaries & Letters, Washington DC - London: Academica Press, Crawford, Rosemary; Crawford, Donald (1997), Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of the Last Tsar of Russia, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Massie, Robert K. (1995), The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, London: Random House, Further reading Gray, Pauline (1976), The Grand Duke's woman : the story of the morganatic marriage of Michael Romanoff, the Tsar Nicholas II's brother and Nathalia Cheremetevskaya, London: Macdonald and Jane's, Majolier, Nathalie (1940), Step-Daughter of Imperial Russia, London: Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd. 1880 births 1952 deaths 19th-century people from the Russian Empire Deaths from cancer in France Mistresses of Russian royalty Morganatic spouses of Russian royalty Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France Burials at Passy Cemetery Nobility from Moscow Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom