[1] By birth, she was member of the House of Petrović-Njegoš, ruling family of the Kingdom of Montenegro since 1697.

[2] She was interested in painting, but is foremost remembered because of the effort she made helping the injured victims of an explosion in the harbor of Bar, for which she was awarded a medal.

[3] She left Montenegro when her father was deposed in 1918 and settled with her parents and her sister Xenia in France.

As young girls, Vjera's father had high hopes that she and her elder sister Xenia would marry members of the Russian Imperial family.

She was buried with her parents and sister in Sanremo, Italy, but like them, her remains were reburied in the Cetinje Monastery in 1989.