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If this has been discussed already you may link me to the discussion and delete this thread. If not I wondered who were serious contenders for Olga's hand in marriage?
I read somewhere that Tzarine Alix was not really willing to be separated from her daughters, and this was the reason she did not really favoured anyone of the mach proposals, as they were not few, at least for the two older girls.
Yet she wanted a foreign Prince for her daughters...when Tatiana's first crush Dmitri Malama visited them on March 17,1916 Alexandra wrote to Nicholas II:""My little Malama came for an hour yesterday evening...Looks flourishing more of a man now, an adorable boy still. I must say a perfect son in law he w(ou)ld have been – why are foreign P(rin)ces not as nice?"
I don't think Alexandra wanted her daughters to marry, she kept them in an immature state and stunted their emotional and psychological growth. For the life of me, go figure, she really really knew how to mess a lot of things up.
I don't think Alexandra wanted her daughters to marry, she kept them in an immature state and stunted their emotional and psychological growth.
AristoCat said:I don't think Alexandra wanted her daughters to marry, she kept them in an immature state and stunted their emotional and psychological growth. For the life of me, go figure, she really really knew how to mess a lot of things up.
Supposedly Grand Duchess Vladimir wanted her son Boris matched with Olga, but Alexandra was horrified at the thought, mainly because of the 'fast' set that Boris lived his life in.
Quiet surprised that at 22 G. D Olga didn't have more serious suitors besides the rumoured intentions and suggestions.
Olga and Tatiana were quite old to still be unmarried and having no prospects. I believe it was Olga who stated that she never wanted to leave Russia; wouldn't that have been a hard hurdle to finding a husband of a Emperor's daughter within the boundaries of Russia? I assume that the only suitable candidates would have had to have been within her own family.
Taking into consideration that there was fear that Alexie would not live long, Nicholas should have married his older daughters off (Victoria had her married by 18) and seen if one of them had a son who could succeed him if Alexie indeed died.
Alexandra did stifle her children and their development and kept them emotionally and socially immature; but Nicholas allowed her to isolate them and himself from his family and the outside world.
BTW could you imagine what kind of Mother-in-law Alexandra would be?
Since Olga didn't want to leave Russia, who knows how things would have ended up
Well there was a little news event called WWI going on between 1914-1918 you might of heard of. That rather limited the marriage markets for foreign husbands. Most of the male Romanoffs were serving on active duty so that limited national husbands. Had they married Russian aristocrats they would have lost their already limited spot in the succession. Also girls could not pass on succession rights except in the absence of male heirs and at that time the Romanovs had no shortage of males able to succeed to the throne should Alexis fail to survive his father.In 1914 and 1916 the girls should have been finding husbands and ended up securing the line. Usually at sixteen Romanov girls married and had kids of thier own and there was no shortage of princes that would have made fine husbands.
XeniaCasaraghi said:For the love of gawd stop bringing up WWI like we haven't heard of it! We all know WWI occurred in 1914, the point people are making is that long before that Tatiana and Olga's marriage prospects should have been in order, Olga could have been married by 1914; someone else has mentioned that other Russian royal women were being married by 16; Olga was 18 or 19 by the time WWI broke out.