Queen’s cousin Olga Romanoff says she always admired Prince Philip, who didn’t take “b *******”

The Queen’s ‘rebellious’ cousin, Princess Olga Romanoff, said she would have been ‘a lousy Imperial Royal’ because she ‘would rather shovel ** than dress’.

Princess Olga, 71, is the daughter of Prince Andrew, elder nephew of Tsar Nicholas II, who fled Russia on a British warship in 1919, and the Queen’s cousin.

Talk to The telegraph, the Russian royal, who lives alone in Provender, a 13th-century 30-room house in Kent, said she was renting what was once the servants’ wing on Airbnb as “a necessity” so she won his life.

Meanwhile, she spoke of her admiration for Prince Philip “quite divine”, saying, “I just think he’s wonderful because A, he’s very handsome. B, he doesn’t take bullshit– He tells it like it is, even though he’s in trouble.

Olga’s parents fled Russia during the revolution, a year after Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky in Ekaterinbur in July 1918.

Through her mother Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall, Mrs. Romanoff is a descendant of William Paterson, who founded the Bank of England in 1694, and also of Henrik Borgström, who founded the Bank of Finland.

Provender was purchased by her grandmother Constance Borgström in 1921 and is loaded with portraits of her illustrious Russian parents.

Olga, which uses the English spelling of her last name as opposed to Russian “Romanov” – was homeschooled before moving between London, Scotland and Kent and returning to the historic home of Provender in 2000.

Olga, who lives alone in her family home in Provender, said she was renting what was once the servants’ wing on Airbnb as “a necessity” so that she could earn a living (pictured at the Eastern Seasons Gala Dinner in One Marylebone December 5th, 2016, London)

She grew up with the constant presence of a chaperone and had her own personal ballet teacher.

She said her father, who died around the time of the birth of her third child, didn’t speak much about Russia.

Descendant Romanoff now spends her time restoring her family home in the UK and rents the servants’ wing on AirBnB to earn extra cash.

She admitted she had to clean up after her guests, do their dishes and even change the sheets, which she vowed never to do.

A family tree of Mrs. Romanoff showing her ancestors dates back to Tsar Nicholas II

Despite being a blood relative of the Royal Family, Olga said she was not sure she considered the Windsors’ “cousins” as she only met them a little when she was a young girl. and had too many cousins ​​to count.

Speaking of Prince Philip, the royal said she had only met him once but would have loved to meet him when he was younger as he had always been one of her personal heroes.

Upon hearing of her death, she said she felt “terribly sorry” for the Queen and the Royal Family, especially Princess Anne, whom she knew when she was younger.

Having been referred to as the Queen’s “rebellious cousin” because of her outspoken manners, Olga said she felt the term did not apply to her as she had never used drugs or conventions when she was younger.

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Olga, pictured with Alexander Armstrong, said she was not sure if she considered the Windsors to be her cousins, but said she had a great deal of admiration for the late Duke of Edinburgh and believed Prince Charles would be a good king.

She said she had never drunk or “***** around”, as a young woman, but admitted that she would have liked to rebel against the establishment.

She joked that her life was “depressing” and that she was now too old to try drugs or alcohol.

When she was younger, Olga was singled out as a potential bride for her third cousin Charles, now 72, but said the Prince of Wales was not her usual type and was only interested in to horses and not to meetings.

Today she is estranged from her former husband Thomas Mathew, with whom she shares three children, Olga is happy to remain single and laughs at her being too old for dating apps.

The Russian royal, pictured, whose father was the nephew of Tsar Nicholas II, praises the servants’ wing of her family home in Kent to make ends meet

She said she appreciated the pragmatic approach to Princess Anne’s life and that Prince Charles would make a good king – although she joked that he would be old by the time he ascended the throne.

She also revealed that she loved the Duchess of Cornwall, whom she met in 1969, because she smoked like her and “swore like a soldier”.

While Olga received a traditional aristocratic education, her three children, Nicholas, Francis-Alexander and Alexandra attended the public school in Scotland where the family lived before they returned to Provender House.

She had a fourth child, Thomas, who died of a rare heart defect at the age of 18 months.

Her daughter Alexandra, who stayed with her during the lockdown, said she was bullied as a child because some people believed an aristocratic title always meant a family had money , and people still thought she was “rich b ****”. ‘

The Queen and Her Cousins ​​with Alexandra Armstrong is on ITV tonight at 9 p.m. ET.