Born in England
Ancestors 
Daughter of David Henry Butter KCVO MC
and Myra Alice (Wernher) Butter CVO
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 70
in England
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Biography
"Rohays Georgina Galitzine, wife of Prince Alexander Galitzine, and a descendant of the Royal House of Romanov, died 7 January 2023. She was 70.
"Rohays was a descendant of Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, and was a close friend of members of the British Royal Family. She had numerous British aristocratic links. A sister of the Countess of Dalhousie, and a first cousin of the late Duchess of Abercorn, and of Natalia, Duchess of Westminster.
"She was born Rohays Georgina Butter, 9 April 1952, the third daughter of Major Sir David Butter, KCVO (1920-2010), and his wife the former Myra Alice Werhner (1925-2022), scion of the Wernher baronets, a close friend from childhood of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a member of Queen Elizabeth II's inner circle of friends, who died only weeks before Her Majesty.
"Rohays Butter married 7 May 1988, Prince Alexander Peter Galitzine (born 6 September, 1945), son of Major Prince George Galitzine (1916-1992), and his 1st wife Anne Marie, Baronin von Slatin (1916-2007), by whom she had issue, Princess Sasha Alice Natalia (born 10 Feb 1989), and Princess Nadhezda Georgina (born 9 Jul 1990)."
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