Yes, I am very familiar with all of the arguments. I was only expressing Dimitri's view (which he claimed was his father's view).

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: Dan,
:
: The succession to the throne/ headship of
: the Imperial House was an automatic one. But
: Priince Roman' s line did not want to ask
: permission from Grand duke Cyril who was the
: next in line and de jute Emperor/ head of
: the House.Roman' s oncle, the Grandduke
: Nicolas, formally head of the army and later
: Vice King of the Caucasus, was regarded by
: many as the better head. If his nephew would
: have asked Grandduke Cyril is would have
: been a sign that Curil was head of the
: house. so they asked the Dowager Empress ...
: Her agreement however was a mere moral, but
: no legal permission. the permission was
: needed. The Countess was however not of
: equal standing and a marriage - even if with
: permission - would not have given their
: sons succession rights. Therefore, under no
: circumstances NIcolas and Dimitir would have
: been Princes of Russia or head of the
: Imperial House. Only Grandduchess Maria
: Vladimirovna is the legimate head of the
: Imperial Family.
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: Dimitri Romanoff, the younger son of HH
: Prince
: Roman of Russia and Countess Prascovia
: Cheremeteva, died 31 Dec 2016 in a hospital
: in Denmark. He was 90. He is survived by his
: widow, Feodora (née Dorrit Reventlow). He
: had no children.
:
: As President of the Romanoff Family
: Association he was also the head of that
: association's charitable foundation which
: raised money for several causes to benefit
: the people of Russia. The bequests were
: often medical equipment and supplies.
:
: Dimitri's position in the family was
: disputed. According to the generally
: acknowledged Head of the House, Grand
: Duchess Maria, he was not a member of the
: Imperial House, the same opinion she
: currently has of every other Romanoff,
: except her son. In her view, Dimitri was
: simply Mr. Dimitri Romanoff.
:
: Dimitri's father, Prince Roman Petrovich,
: was of the opinion in 1921 (when he married
: Prascovia) that there was no longer an
: Empire, and there was no longer an Emperor,
: so there was no one that he had ask
: permission from to marry. As a result, he
: never asked for, nor did he receive, any
: title for his wife or children. By Roman's
: thinking his children would be HH Prince
: Nicolas (d.2014) and HSH Prince Dimitri of
: Russia.
:
: The current Russian government, which
: recently awarded him the Order of Alexander
: Nevsky for his charitable work, refers to
: him as "Prince Dimitri Romanoff."
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