"Maria Vladimirovna has the support of most monarchist groups and followers, most societies of Russian nobles — including the Assembly of the Russian Nobility, and recognition of her claim by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill I Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
who, in a televised March 2013 interview, stated "Today, none of those
persons who are descendants of the Romanoffs are pretenders to the
Russian throne. But in the person of Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna
and her son, Georgii, the succession of the Romanoffs is preserved — no
longer to the Russian Imperial throne, but to history itself."
