![]() ![]() ![]() “Nobody ever thinks about the private aspects of the people that have made history. “These stories are full of human spirit,” says Victoria. It’s as though history has frantically scrambled together a role for its no-longer-royal royals to play in the present made redundant by waves of history from their duties as Europe’s sovereigns, they have been re-nosed and re-calibrated for life in the 21st century, still dragging behind them centuries worth of history. She was raised in Iraq and Venezuela before attending school in Belgium and later becoming head of the Russian Imperial Foundation, the formal organisation that represents and publicises the activities of what’s left of the Romanov family. Victoria, born Rebecca Virginia Bettarini in Rome, is the daughter of an Italian diplomat. He received his degree from the University of Oxford before moving to Brussels to work in the European Parliament, in order to, in the words of his official biography on the Romanov dynasty website, “learn about the processes determining the future course of Europe.” George was born and baptised in Madrid, moved to France as an infant, then returned to Spain for his schooling at a private British college in the capital. Grand Duke George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, to give them their full names, have lived lives pretty far removed from their Russian heritage. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |