Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff

Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff[a] (Russian: О́льга Андре́евна Рома́нова, romanized: Ólga Andréevna Románova; born 8 April 1950) is a British aristocrat and member of the House of Romanov.

[1] Educated in her mother's country house Provender, Faversham, Kent, England by private tutors, she was told of her family's tragic imperial heritage in pre-revolutionary Russia as a child by her exiled father.

[2] She joined the Romanov Family Association (RFA) in 1980 and, with other members, attended the long-delayed interment of Russia's last emperor and empress in St. Petersburg in 1998.

[1][6] Having inherited the ageing mansion and 30-acre (12 ha) estate in 2000, she raised the money to have it refurbished by selling what was left of her father's cache of pre-revolutionary artefacts, most of which had long since been sold to the British royal family.

[1] During an interview on Channel 4 television's "Royal House of Windsor", she corrected the prevalent view that the fatal abandonment by the British of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and children to the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution was not due to the callousness of the British government of the day, but to the reluctance of his cousin George V, as was revealed by Kenneth Rose in his biography of the King.

Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire
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