Maria is reported to live with her Dutch partner Jorrit Faassen, 34, an executive for a Russian consultancy firm. He owns a two-storey penthouse apartment (pictured) at the top of a luxury high-security block in Voorschoten, next to an idyllic canal
The face of Maria Putin - if it is her in the two pictures widely published today - will be a revelation to most Russians who have never seen their president, who first came to power in the Kremlin on the final day of 1999, properly pictured with his two daughters by ex-wife Lyudmila, except as children
Vladimir Putin's daughters Ekaterina (left) and Maria (right) during their childhood. Unlike the families of Western leaders, the Kremlin refuses point blank to discuss divorced Putin's children
Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin. Little is known about Putin's two daughters, Maria and Yekaterina, and their private lives are protected by a strictly obeyed code of silence among Russia's media
The convoy of funeral hearses carrying the remains of the victims of the MH17 plane crash is driven from the airbase in Eindhoven to Hilversum, The Netherlands
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands (pictured centre alongside her husband King Willem-Alexander) wipes away a tear as the bodies of victims of the MH17 crash are removed from an air force transport plane
