Princess Olga, a Wild and Barefoot Romanov - Her Highness Princess Olga Romanoff (Hardcover)
Description
The fascinating story of the young Romanov princess whose family fled the Russian revolution and who lived in exile, firstly in homes provided by the British Royal family. This is very much a human interest story, told with humour by a down to earth woman.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9780856835179
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 1 Oct 2017
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Authors
- Coryne Hall (Creator)
Coryne Hall (Other)
Her Highness Princess Olga Romanoff
Coryne Hall (Contributor)
Olga Romanoff
- Subtitle
- A Wild and Barefoot Romanov
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 200
- Dimensions
- 235 x 159mm
Summary
This is very much a human interest story, told with humour by
a down to earth woman struggling to make ends meet in the 21st
century. The upkeep of her historical childhood home, Provender
House, in the depths of the English countryside, is indeed a
constant daily battle for this modern-day princess. Princess Olga
Romanoff, is the daughter of the eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II,
murdered with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. She is the
youngest child of the late Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia,
who was born in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1897. He fled
Russia in 1918 with his pregnant (first) wife and his father, Grand
Duke Alexander Michaelovich, while his mother, Grand Duchess Xenia,
and his grandmother, Her Imperial Highness Maria Feodorovna,
followed a few months later. The fabled Romanov jewels that they
were able to smuggle out had to be sold and the exiled family were
accommodated for some time by the British Royal Family at various
grace-and-favour homes at Windsor Castle and Hampton Court. The
book is peppered with amusing anecdotes about the British Royal
Family, their British cousins. The reader will also get a glimpse
of the Princess's cosseted childhood. She was looked after by a
number of nannies and then privately educated at home, as her
mother remembered the terrible time she herself had had at boarding
school. But Princess Olga preferred the outdoor life and riding her
ponies. She still laughs at one of her mother's ambitions which was
to marry her off to Prince Charles! It was indeed an unusual
upbringing with a snobbish and strict mother of Scottish and
Scandinavian background, and a more relaxed and indulgent Romanov
father whose occupation was stated as 'Prince of Russia' on Olga's
birth certificate. Her home, Provender House is crammed full of
fascinating Romanov memorabilia, from the crockery used by the tsar
and his family during their final captivity in Ekaterinburg, to the
diamond blade penknife used for scratching
Contents
Cast of Main Characters; List of Illustrations; 1 The Romanov
Legacy; 2 My Mother's Family; 3 Nursery Days; 4 Wild in Kent; 5 Out
into Society; 6 Highland Fling; 7 Provender; 8 My Children; 9
Provender Deteriorates; 10 Restoration; 11 Lost Heritage; 12
Reflections
Non-Fiction
- General Subject
- Biography/Autobiography
- BISAC Subject 1
- Biography & Autobiography / Royalty
- BISAC Subject 2
- History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Dewey Classification
- 920