Paul Dmitrievich Romanovsky-Ilyinsky was a three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida, and the only child of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia and his morganatic wife, Cincinnati heiress Audrey Emery. He was a great-grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and, following the death of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich in 1992, the heir-male of the Ilyinsky claim of the House of Romanov, a first cousin once removed of Nicholas II, first cousin of Prince Lennart of Sweden, Duke of Småland and the second cousin of Charles III.