Romanov first traveled to Russia as an 11-year-old, for the funeral of his grandfather, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich Romanov, in 1992. Bettarini, who also founded a consulting company, said in an interview that she wrote two novels during the Covid-19 pandemic, including one called “Aristocrazy.” Bettarini, now Romanovna, began dating while they lived in Brussels, but the pair moved to Moscow two years ago to run the philanthropic foundation they established together in 2013. According to his official biography, he is related to every royal family in Europe. Romanov was educated at Oxford and worked for several European Union institutions as well as Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel group before starting his own consultancy. He is the great-grandson of the cousin of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov. The groom, who is 40, said the wedding was part of a chain of unlikely events that his family could not foresee when he was born in 1981 in Madrid. Martin, who wrote a book on Romanov wedding traditions, is a volunteer adviser to the family who helped ensure the ceremony was in keeping with royal tradition.Īmong the list of royal attendees were Princess Léa of Belgium, Queen Sofia of Spain, Prince Rudolph and Princess Tilsim of Liechtenstein, and the last czar of Bulgaria, Simeon II. “This is a tremendously significant historical event for one of the world’s most consequential dynasties,” said Russell Martin, a history professor at Westminster College in Pennsylvania, with overstatement that seemed fitting for an occasion draped in opulence. But the wedding represents the pinnacle of their attempts to re-establish themselves in the country’s public life since the fall of communism 30 years ago, and perhaps return a sense of imperial glory to Russia. The Romanovs have had no official legal standing in Russia since the dynasty was overthrown in 1917, and they don’t seek to return to the throne.
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