Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff

Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff (born April 8 1950) is Princess of Russia and member of the House of Romanov.

Biography

She was born in London the daughter of Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia and his second wife Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall (1908-2000). Her father was the son of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, sister of Tsar Nicholas II.

Princess Olga is the great-granddaughter of the Dowager Empress Maria, through which she is related to all the major royal houses of Europe. She is also a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. She is the only child of Prince Andrei to have been educated at home by private tutors. She joined the Romanov Family Association in 1980 and currently serves as a committee member.

She lives with her family in Provender Manor near Faversham, Kent. Provender is 29-room, 14th-century manor house that she spent a large sum of money restoring.

As a granddaughter of a Russian Grand Duke, Olga was born with the title of Her Highness with the style of Princess. Princess Olga uses the English version of her family name, preferring 'Romanoff' to the Russian 'Romanova'. From 1950 to 1975, she held the title Her Highness Olga Andreevna Romanoff, Princess of Russia. In 1975, she received the title Her Highness Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff, Mrs Thomas Mathew.

In 2006, she was on Australian Princess (an Australian reality TV show) giving advice to competitors.

Marriage and children

Once seen as a possible bride for Charles, Prince of Wales, [cite news |first=Jane |last=Ghirardani |title=I might be a Russian princess but I still go to Safeway's, do all the cleaning and muck out the pony; My Diary: By Princess Olga Romanoff, Housewife. |publisher=Daily Mirror |page= |date=1998-08-22 ] she married Thomas Mathew (b. 1945) on 1 October 1975 in London. They separated in 1989 having and had four children:
*Nicholas Matthew (b. 1976)
*Francis Matthew (b. 1978) a [http://www.francismathew.com/ freelance photographer]
*Alexandra Matthew (b. 1981)
*Thomas Matthew (1987-1989)

References

External links

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* [http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article1966179.ece Ancestral landscape]