since his daughter Olga married George I of Greece, whose son Andrew married Alice Battenberg, and they became the parents of Philip, Charles' father. Through Constantine I of Greece, another son of Olga and George I, Konstantin is also the paternal great-great-grandfather of Queen Sofía of Spain, mother of King Felipe VI. In Fiction The Grand Duke is a central character in Act III of the novel Forty-Ninth by Boris Pronsky and Craig Britton. In the book, Konstantin is the brains behind the liberal reforms of his brother, Russian Emperor Alexander II, as well as the sale of Alaska to the United States. Honours National orders and decorations Knight of St. Andrew, 1827 Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky, 1827 Knight of the White Eagle, 1827 Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class, 1827 Knight of St. George, 4th Class, 1849 Knight of St. Vladimir, 1st Class, 1853 Knight of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class, 1865 Foreign orders and decorations Ancestry References Chavchavadze, David. The Grand Dukes. Atlantic, 1989. Ferrand, Jacques, Descendances naturelles des souverains et grands-ducs de Russie, de 1762 à 1910 : répertoire généalogique,1995. King, Greg, and Wilson, Penny. Gilded Prism. Eurohistory, 2006. Van Der Kiste, John. The Romanovs 1818–1959. Sutton Publishing, 1999. . Zeepvat, Charlotte. Romanov Autumn. Sutton Publishing, 2000. External links 1827 births 1892 deaths Russian grand dukes House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov Imperial Russian Navy admirals Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) 19th-century people from the Russian Empire Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia) Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary Knights Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur Knights Commander of the Military Order of William Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class) Children of Nicholas I of Russia Sons of emperors Burials at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg