government of the day, but to the reluctance of his diffident cousin King George V, as was revealed by Kenneth Rose in his biography of the King. In 2017 she published a memoir, Princess Olga, A Wild and Barefoot Romanov. She serves alongside Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia as a royal patron of the Queen Charlotte's Ball. Marriage and children Once considered a possible bride for her third cousin King Charles III, she married Thomas Mathew (born 8 July 1945, son of Francis Mathew former manager of The Times), in nuptials at the Orthodox Cathedral of the Assumption and at the Brompton Oratory on 1 October 1975. A member of the Irish gentry, he also had homes in England at South Kensington and in the vicinity of Hatchlands Park in Surrey. They separated in 1989, having had issue: Nicholas Mathew (b. 6 December 1976); married Judith Aird Stanley (b. 1 October 1976), three children : Thomas (b. 2004) Lucy (b. 2006) Isabella Florence (b. 2011). Francis-Alexander Mathew (b. 20 September 1979); freelance photographer. 2012 contestant on Ukraine version of The Bachelor. Starred in season 2 of Secret Princes as "Prince Alexander". Alexandra Mathew (b. 20 April 1981) Thomas Mathew (27 November 1987 – 20 April 1989) Ancestry Notes References External links Ancestral landscape House of Romanov in exile 1950 births Living people People from London Russian princesses English people of Russian descent