Divorced Russian Princess Olga Romanoff, 71, reveals she's looking for love online with 'a tall, blonde who looks like a trained killer' - and says her mother was determined to marry her off to third cousin Prince Charles

  • Princess Olga Romanoff, 71, great-niece of Tsar Nicholas II, lives in Kent
  • Appears on ITV docu-series Keeping Up With The Aristocrats, starting tonight
  • In the first episode, Princess Olga reveals she is looking for love online 
  • Says she likes men who look like 'trained killers' and are 'tall and blond'
  • Adds her mother was once determined to marry her off to Prince Charles 

By Stephanie Linning For Mailonline

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Russian Princess Olga Romanoff reveals she is looking for love and wants someone 'tall, thin and blond' - who looks like a 'trained killer'.

Princess Olga, 71, whose great-uncle Tsar Nicholas II was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918, lives in 13th-century home in Kent, is seen setting up her online dating profile on tonight's episode of Keeping Up With The Aristocrats, a new ITV show that offers an intimate look at the lives of four British upper-crust families. 

At Provender House, her 13-century home near Faversham, Kent, Olga, who is twice married and twice divorced, admits she's unlucky in love but does believe in the idea of a 'perfect relationship'. 

The divorcee also reveals she was once considered a match for her third cousin Prince Charles.

Olga's daughter, Alex,  created a profile on a dating app to try and spice up her romantic life

Princess Olga, 71, whose great-uncle Tsar Nicholas II was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918, is seen setting up her online dating profile on tonight's episode of Keeping Up With The Aristocrats, a series that offers an intimate look at the lives of four British upper-crust families. Pictured, Olga setting up her online dating profile with daughter Alexandra

Olga also reveals that her mother (pictured left) was once determined to marry her off to Prince Charles and jokes the royal had a 'lucky escape'

Olga also reveals that her mother (pictured left) was once determined to marry her off to Prince Charles and jokes the royal had a 'lucky escape'

Russian royalty: Olga is the great-niece of Tsar Nicholas II. Her family settled in England after being exiled

Russian royalty: Olga is the great-niece of Tsar Nicholas II. Her family settled in England after being exiled

'My mother always had delusions that she could get me married off to poor Prince Charles,' she tells daughter Alexandra.

'Obviously that wasn't going to happen because I was the wrong religion and a lot of other things. But other was determined that it was to happen. God knows why.

'I would have been terrible for him. He definitely had a lucky escape!' 

Reflecting on what she is looking for in a man, she says: 'Tall, blond, thin', like Prince Philip.

She continues: 'The type of man I've always liked is a trained killer, ex-SAS, ex-Special Forces... I've always liked the idea of the perfect relationship and romance but I have a knack for picking the wrong people.' 

Averse to dressing up on a daily basis and admitting that she would not have been the best at front-line royalty, Princess Olga Romanoff speaks her mind

At Provender House, her 13-century home near Faversham, Kent, Olga, who is twice married and twice divorced, admits she's unlucky in love but does believe in the idea of a 'perfect relationship' 

Money pit: Olga, 71, lives at the medieval Provender House near Faversham, which she inherited 21 years ago upon the death of her mother (her father, Nicholas II's nephew, had escaped to England). By then the money had run out and it was a ramshackle wreck

Money pit: Olga, 71, lives at the medieval Provender House near Faversham, which she inherited 21 years ago upon the death of her mother (her father, Nicholas II's nephew, had escaped to England). By then the money had run out and it was a ramshackle wreck

Keeping Up With The Aristocrats, which begins tonight on ITV, reveals the extraordinary amount of work - and cash - required to keep these majestic mansions up and running.

And, unlike their ancestors, many of today's blue-bloods are having to do the work themselves.

For the reality is that many of today's aristos are asset rich but cash-strapped and are kept awake at night worrying about how they're going to make ends meet, just like the rest of us. 

Only they also have to deal with the embarrassing prospect that they might just be the generation that fails to keep up payments and must pass on ownership of a property that's been in the family for hundreds of years.  

Olga remembers a time when she had staff to keep the estate running. 'I love the garden but I loved it more when we had people doing all this,' she says

Putting herself to work: Olga remembers a time when there was a large staff to keep the estate running. 'I love the garden but I loved it more when we had people doing all this,' she says, mowing the lawn, 'and I could just lie in the garden' 

Olga, a cousin of the Queen, is related to Prince Philip, has no truck with the general perception of her moneyed class. 

'I'm not your ordinary princess,' she says. 'At home you'll find me shovelling s***, sadly, not eating caviar.'  

While Olga's blood may be as blue as the Danube, she's far more likely to be seen mucking out at her 13th-century home in Kent than quaffing Champagne.

'Only children expect a princess in a tiara and a frilly dress,' she says. 'Adults might sometimes raise an eyebrow because I smell of horses and don't wear make-up, but they're too polite to say so.'

Olga inherited Provender House 21 years ago upon the death of her mother (her father, Nicholas II's nephew, had escaped to England). By then the money 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 general perception of her moneyed class and has to do the chores herself. Above, with her daughter

Olga, a cousin of the Queen and a relative of Prince Philip, has no truck with the general perception of her moneyed class and has to do the chores herself. Above, with her daughter

'When I was a child, it seemed like there was a bottomless pit of money,' she recalls. 

'And indeed there was until my grandmother died. Then my mother, poor woman, got into deep s**t and the debts just rose and rose and rose.

'I inherited the house and I realised the house was literally falling down. 'It's still falling down, £2.5 million later,' says Olga dryly. 'I had to sell some of our Russian heirlooms to fund it.'

Today she generates income by renting out a wing of the house via Airbnb and by giving £14-a-head tours to busloads of tourists.

Cameras follow Olga as she gives a tour to one group, making jokes about her late ancestor's busts and pointing out a painting made for her by a late ex-boyfriend.  

Yet Olga remembers a time when there was a large staff to keep the estate running.

'I love the garden but I loved it more when we had people doing all this,' she says, running a lawnmower across the grass, 'and I could just lie in the garden'. 

Keeping Up With The Aristocrats starts tonight at 9pm on ITV 

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