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When she died in exile in 1960, Olga Alexandrova was the last Grand Duchess of Russia, favourite sister of Czar Nicholas II, who was executed with his wife and five children during the Revolution. Born in splendour difficult to imagine today, she had endured a lifetime of relentless tragedy with courage and exceptional powers of adjustment. The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov seen through the eyes of its last surviving member. Through Olga, we see Queen Victoria, George V of England, Rasputin, Mrs. Anderson - on whose story the movie Anastasia was based - and other imposters who plagued the exiled grand duchess with false hope. In this official memoir, Ian Vorres captures the loneliness and violence of Olga's years in Russia, her loveless first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, her years of exile in England and Denmark and her final settlement with her second husband and family in Canada. Long out of print, Key Porter is proud to republish this classic account of an extraordinary woman, this time with photographs.