She was the 1st wife of Dimitri Alexandrovitch, the son of Sandro and Xenia, Nicholas II's nephew.
The problem is that the couple divorced in 1947 and both remarried.
Marina G-K died in 1967 in Connecticut so, neither the date nor the place would check with the meeting with Mrs. Nelson in the late 70's early 80s .
The fact of being a niece or great-niece could be disputable.
Either she could be a more distant relative or she could be like a cousin of mine.
She was my grand-mother's first cousin but she felt she was too old to be called cousin so she insisted to be called "aunt" by my generation
However, I believe Mrs. Nelson said specifically that the lady was a niece or great-niece of the czar. And no mention was made as to whether she was a Romanov.
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