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Though Minnie was a Danish Princess. It was hard for Denmark to manouver and nobody really wanted to leave Russia.
Most of the Grand Dukes were "bad boys". I'm currently reading "Michael and Natasha" by the Crawfords and they say that those closest in line to the throne were chasing after women, almost getting shot by cuckholded husbands, carrying on with mistresses, issuing off-spring who didn't know which Grand Duke was their father etc. etc.. . .I Hear he was a bit of a bad boy at the start didnt she cheat as well?
Or. . .you could get the book The Last Grand Duchess by Ian Vorres and do it yourself. . . .Can someone do a biography on GD Olga as they did GD Xenia on the first couple of posts on page 1? I find this so fascinating.
Xenia was charming and practical and had a wonderful family, six sons and a daughter. Alix was neurotic and shy and demanding. It was better that she had more daughters than sons, as her sons stood a great chance, as her one son did, of having hemophilia. She had no trouble having children, just more daughters than sons, which is the luck of the draw. Xenia and Alix were friends, but as time passed Alix walled herself off from most everyone, including the family, thus causing distrust from all sides. Xenia, also felt she had too much control over the Tsar and meddled in affairs that she should not have.
Copy that! They should have been Russian aristocrats or something else far removed from the throne. Nicky expressed interest in being an Englishman at one time.Alix was a troubled soul who would and did make a wonderful spouse to Nicholas but she was a lousy empress.
Waaaay too busy for me.And the royal couple's bedrooms, sitting rooms and the children's rooms were what a proper Victorian family would have enjoyed.
Tikon and Guri have passed. If memory serves, wasn't it Massie's book The Romanovs the final chapter that had some of them in it? I seem to remember when the DNA came out they were suspicious that the testers didn't believe they had the blood of Tsars running through their veins.Olga had
Tikhol
Guri
But I would like to know if her children have any decendents because xenia's children are more known than olga's
Oh it's definately worth a read. Massie' I find to be fuddy duddy however he had good bits and pieces of Xenia and Olgas decendants and it's a fast read about 280 pages or so. I'll find a link.Russo my dear,
Sorry, I have not read The Romanovs by Massie. The only book I read by him is Nicholas and Alexandra. Do you recommend I get The Romanovs? I am currently reading Michael and Natasha which you so kindly recommended and am enjoying it so far. So much I did not know about the palace at Gatchina.
Went on Amazon and looked up "Once a Grand Duchess" why the heck is that book so freakin expensive;
Also apparently he is the first of the family to move back to Russia.
Do you have a lending library near by? You ought to check it out and they DO have sales of books from the library at least once a year to re coup costs of the outlay. When I lived in the Multnomah area of the Portland Metro area the Library system was PHENOMENAL! I was getting Once a grand Duke, Always a Grand Duke, The last Grand Duchess, the works! Try it! Also, look to estate sales and garage sales. You never know what you're going to get. I picked up Marie the Younger's book "Education of a Princess" at a garage sale for $4. Really.Went on Amazon and looked up "Once a Grand Duchess" why the heck is that book so freakin expensive; my gawd. I am hoping to get my hands on some Romanov books in the next few days, but my libraries in my city are sparse.
It's always been a hard for me to distinguish between the family members; the most recent thing I have heard about Xenia is that one of her descendants is widely viewed as the head of the Romanov family and he was born in the US. Also apparently he is the first of the family to move back to Russia.
Vasillisos Markos said:Russo my dear,
Didn't they take DNA from Prince Philip to confirm the Empress's bones and opened Georgy's crypt to confirm Nicholas's DNA? This would lead me to believe that Olga's descendants are probably extinct.