You might associate royalty with a world of endless rules about how to dress and speak. No wonder that rebellious Princess Olga Romanoff is delighted that she s not a front-line royal.
Princess Olga Romanoff, 72, who lives in 13th-century home in Kent, is no stranger to reality TV but she has signed up to new show The Big Celebrity Detox. But who is The Queen s cousin?
The Queen s distant cousin Princess Olga Romanoff has revealed how Her Majesty s grandmother, Queen Mary, had upmarket kleptomania and would often remark on how nice an item was while visiting so her hosts would be obliged to give it to her.
Princess Olga, 71, is the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II s eldest nephew, Prince Andrew, who escaped Russia on a British warship in 1919, and lives alone at Provender, a 30-room 13th century home in Kent.
Tsar Nicholas II was the first cousin of King George V, who was Queen Elizabeth II s grandfather, and husband to Queen Mary of Teck.
The Queen s distant cousin Princess Olga Romanoff (pictured) has revealed how Her Majesty s grandmother, Queen Mary, had upmarket kleptomania because she would often remark on how nice an item was so her hosts would be obliged to give it to her
686 shares But they also did about other foreign royalty, like the Swedes, the Luxembourgs, all princesses of that era in 1967 as possible suitable brides for old Prince Charles. My mother did the blurb and I didn t know anything about it until it came out and I was horrified .
Appearing on Lorraine today, she said that Her Majesty has the right approach to public life, rather than royals partaking in high-profile interviews
The Russian royal added that being a princess never had an impact on her and that she was horrified when she read an article dubbing her a potential love match for her third-cousin the Prince of Wales
“I would love to have met [him] when he was younger because he is almost a hero of mine,” she said. “I just think he’s wonderful because A, he’s very good-looking. B, he doesn’t take bulls.. He says it how it is even if he gets into trouble.” Moments after I had driven away from our interview, the news breaks that the Duke had died. I return to Provender House, Olga’s 13th-century mansion in the Kent countryside in the UK, to find her in tears. “He was nearly 100 so it wasn’t totally unexpected but he did so much and he was the Queen’s backbone and shoulder and he’ll be just terribly missed,” she says.