From Romanov to Windsor : King Charles III's Romanov blood /
Few people realise that King Charles III is a direct descendant of the Romanovs, the dynasty who by 1917 ruled one sixth of the surface of the earth. Their story encompasses great wealth and unlimited power, palace coups and murders, as well as at least one heir allegedly killed by his own father. T...
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Stroud :
Amberley Publishing,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Family trees
- A note on names, dates and titles
- List of illustrations
- Acknowlegements
- Introduction
- Game of thrones
- The young monk
- From Moscow to St Petersburg
- The heir from Holstein
- Exit Peter III
- Enter Catherine II
- Catherine II and the expansion of empire
- Murder in the castle
- 'Tomorrow morning I shall be either Emperor or dead'
- 'I want shipwrights and sailors, not clerks'
- 'I fell in love with the man, not with the king'
- In and out of exile
- 'I just had to get on with it'
- 'Prints Waleski's visits to Russia'
- 'The bastards murdered half my family'
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.