Russian princess Olga Romanoff reveals she is searching for love and needs somebody ‘tall, skinny and blond’ – who seems to be like a ‘skilled killer’.
Princess Olga, 71, whose great-uncle Tsar Nicholas II was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918, lives in Thirteenth-century house in Kent, is seen organising her on-line relationship profile on tonight’s episode of Holding Up With The Aristocrats, a brand new ITV present that provides an intimate have a look at the lives of 4 British upper-crust households.
At Provender Home, her 13-century house close to Faversham, Kent, Olga, who’s twice married and twice divorced, admits she’s unfortunate in love however does imagine within the concept of a ‘excellent relationship’.
The divorcee additionally reveals she was as soon as thought of a match for her third cousin Prince Charles.
Princess Olga, 71, whose great-uncle Tsar Nicholas II was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918, is seen organising her on-line relationship profile on tonight’s episode of Holding Up With The Aristocrats, a collection that provides an intimate have a look at the lives of 4 British upper-crust households. Pictured, Olga organising her on-line relationship profile with daughter Alexandra
Olga additionally reveals that her mom (pictured left) was as soon as decided to marry her off to Prince Charles and jokes the royal had a ‘fortunate escape’
Russian royalty: Olga is the great-niece of Tsar Nicholas II. Her household settled in England after being exiled
‘My mom all the time had delusions that she might get me married off to poor Prince Charles,’ she tells daughter Alexandra.
‘Clearly that wasn’t going to occur as a result of I used to be the unsuitable faith and a whole lot of different issues. However different was decided that it was to occur. God is aware of why.
‘I’d have been horrible for him. He undoubtedly had a fortunate escape!’
Reflecting on what she is searching for in a person, she says: ‘Tall, blond, skinny’, like Prince Philip.
She continues: ‘The kind of man I’ve all the time favored is a skilled killer, ex-SAS, ex-Particular Forces… I’ve all the time favored the concept of the proper relationship and romance however I’ve a knack for selecting the unsuitable folks.’
At Provender Home, her 13-century house close to Faversham, Kent, Olga, who’s twice married and twice divorced, admits she’s unfortunate in love however does imagine within the concept of a ‘excellent relationship’
Cash pit: Olga, 71, lives on the medieval Provender Home close to Faversham, which she inherited 21 years in the past upon the loss of life of her mom (her father, Nicholas II’s nephew, had escaped to England). By then the cash had run out and it was a ramshackle wreck
Holding Up With The Aristocrats, which begins tonight on ITV, reveals the extraordinary quantity of labor – and money – required to maintain these majestic mansions up and working.
And, not like their ancestors, a lot of at the moment’s blue-bloods are having to do the work themselves.
For the fact is that a lot of at the moment’s aristos are asset wealthy however cash-strapped and are stored awake at evening worrying about how they will make ends meet, similar to the remainder of us.
Solely in addition they must take care of the embarrassing prospect that they could simply be the technology that fails to maintain up funds and should cross on possession of a property that is been within the household for a whole bunch of years.
Placing herself to work: Olga remembers a time when there was a big employees to maintain the property working. ‘I like the backyard however I cherished it extra once we had folks doing all this,’ she says, mowing the garden, ‘and I might simply lie within the backyard’
Olga, a cousin of the Queen, is expounded to Prince Philip, has no truck with the overall notion of her moneyed class.
‘I am not your extraordinary princess,’ she says. ‘At house you will discover me shovelling s***, sadly, not consuming caviar.’
Whereas Olga’s blood could also be as blue because the Danube, she’s much more prone to be seen mucking out at her Thirteenth-century house in Kent than quaffing Champagne.
‘Solely kids count on a princess in a tiara and a frilly gown,’ she says. ‘Adults may generally increase an eyebrow as a result of I scent of horses and do not put on make-up, however they’re too well mannered to say so.’
Olga inherited Provender Home 21 years in the past upon the loss of life of her mom (her father, Nicholas II’s nephew, had escaped to England). By then the cash had run out and it was a ramshackle wreck.
Olga, a cousin of the Queen and a relative of Prince Philip, has no truck with the overall notion of her moneyed class and has to do the chores herself. Above, along with her daughter
‘Once I was a baby, it appeared like there was a bottomless pit of cash,’ she recollects.
‘And certainly there was till my grandmother died. Then my mom, poor lady, acquired into deep s**t and the money owed simply rose and rose and rose.
‘I inherited the home and I realised the home was actually falling down. ‘It is nonetheless falling down, £2.5 million later,’ says Olga dryly. ‘I needed to promote a few of our Russian heirlooms to fund it.’
Immediately she generates earnings by renting out a wing of the home by way of Airbnb and by giving £14-a-head excursions to busloads of vacationers.
Cameras comply with Olga as she offers a tour to at least one group, making jokes about her late ancestor’s busts and declaring a portray made for her by a late ex-boyfriend.
But Olga remembers a time when there was a big employees to maintain the property working.
‘I like the backyard however I cherished it extra once we had folks doing all this,’ she says, working a lawnmower throughout the grass, ‘and I might simply lie within the backyard’.
Holding Up With The Aristocrats begins tonight at 9pm on ITV