'Had a lucky escape' Queen’s cousin on how she almost ended up married to Prince Charles
KEEPING UP WITH THE ARISTOCRATS star Princess Olga Romanoff has opened up about how her late mother persistently tried to set her up on a date with the Prince of Wales, but she was having none of it.
Princess Olga's mother wanted her to marry Prince Charles
Brand new three-part series, Keeping Up With The Aristocrats, follows four of Britain's most prominent aristocrats giving cameras exclusive access to reveal what really goes on behind closed doors over one summer's social season. Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff, a descendant of the House of Romanov, owns a 13th-century mansion along with a 30-acre estate besides having close ties to the Royal Family. In the first instalment, the 71-year-old explained how she was almost married to Prince Charles.
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As Princess Olga sat with daughter Alexandra Matthew, she explained how her late mother was “determined” she would marry Prince Charles.
She revealed: “My mother always had delusions that she could get me married off to poor Prince Charles.”
Alexandra, who was setting up an online dating profile for her mother, sniggered at the concept.
The princess continued: “That obviously wasn’t going to happen.”
Without looking up from her computer screen, Alexandra quipped: “Thank god!”
Speaking on the ITV show, Olga remarked: “Because I was the wrong religion and a lot of other things but [my] mother was determined that this was going to happen. God knows why?
“I would have been terrible for him,” she claimed.
Currently single, the Kent-based royal is hunting down her ideal type of man but unfortunately, the Prince of Wales wouldn’t have cut the mustard.
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Meanwhile, Alexandra, who appears to lead a normal family life and isn’t addressed by a royal title, joked: “Awful, awful.”
In 2005, Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles at the royal residence, Windsor Castle, 24 years after he married Princess Diana.
Giggling at the camera, Olga told viewers: “He definitely had a lucky escape.”
Nonchalantly, her daughter added: “Poor man."
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Describing her ideal man, she insisted appearance is “very important”.
She explained: “Tall… blonde… thin… the type of man I’ve always liked is a trained killer, ex-SAS, ex-Special Forces.”
As daughter Alexandra introduces the Duchess to the modern world of internet dating, viewers will have to wait and see whether Olga will be matched up with her ideal “trained killer”.
While many ITV audiences may not find themselves discussing the possibility of marrying into the monarchy, in this fly-on-the-wall three-parter, Olga is one of many featured on Keeping Up With The Aristocrats.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten and husband James gamble their reputation, and that of Michelin-starred chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, by hosting their first-ever pop-up restaurant at their stately home of Bridwell.
Meanwhile, Lord and Lady Fitzalan-Howard find themselves in a funk as they hope to fund the extortionate costs of their 126-room mansion by turning part of their 3,000-acre estate into a vineyard.
Having bottled their very first bottle of sparkling wine, they turn to friends Alexandra Sitwell and her husband Rick for advice, as they already own one the UK’s most successful vineyards at Renishaw Hall.
Keeping Up With The Aristocrats starts Monday at 9pm on ITV and the ITV Hub.
