We really don't know if she could be happiest with the kaiser. Considering his behavior and personality, is hard to believe, but who knows?
KR have 9 children and is (now) a very known homosexual. I think Ella had some fertility problems.
Three? I just remember Ella and Alix. Who was the third?
As far as I know it' s an open secret that he was gay or bisexual and had an inclination for sadism
As far as I know it' s an open secret that he was gay or bisexual and had an inclination for sadism
Nicholai Romanov (1922-2014) is quoted in a Swedish book about the Romanovs saying that Sergei was an animal and guilty of many crimes. I guess he should know.Indeed he was & had!What all these new pop-up "experts" complain about not being enough evidence is because they don't look further then Google usually... He and Ella were two fridges,they didn't really warm up to anyone,at all.
Simply amazing that the coffin of the Grand Duke survived the Soviet destruction of the Chudov Monastery in 1928 and the sealed up crypt was rediscovered in 1990 and the the coffin found.
I want to read a book of Grand Duchess Ella. I have found two and want to know if one is better than the other: First Book and Second Book
I don't know Book No 2 I'm afraid but I have Christopher Warwick's bio and can recommend that one. It's very comprehensive, except perhaps about Ella's intimate marital life with Serge.
Seconded - I've got the Christopher Warwick one as well, and it's very good.
(I'm not sure that they had an intimate married life! But I don't suppose anyone could really know if they had or not, other than the two of them and maybe their closest servants.)