Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley (21 December 1903 – 15 November 1990) was the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and his second wife, Olga Valerianovna Karnovich.

[citation needed] Irina was born in Paris because her parents had been exiled for marrying without the permission of Tsar Nicholas II.

"[3]Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Grand Duke Paul, who was too ill to register with the rest of the Romanov family, was under close observation by the new government.

Irina later recalled how her father walked with her and her younger sister in the garden and talked about what his marriage had meant to him: "He spoke to us at length about all that he owed to our mother, all that she had brought to him which he had never known in his life before, and about all that she had been to him.

[citation needed] Irina married her first cousin once removed, Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia (1898–1968), son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (sister of Nicholas II), on 21 May 1923 in Paris.