Few people know that Prince Charles is the blood of the Romanovs. The heir to the British throne could inherit the throne – his father, the Duke of Edinburgh Philip, is the great-grandson of Emperor Nicholas I.
But Charles ‘ grandfather, a Greek Prince Andrew even had the officer of the Russian army in 1908 he was enrolled in the list of Nevsky Imperial regiment and the 1st company of the Russian army.
Married to Ryurikovna
The first wife of Prince Charles, mother of heirs to the throne of great Britain was a distant descendant of the founder of the Russian state Rurik.
Lady Di was associated with the founder of the Russian statehood using Dobroniega Princess of Kiev, daughter of Vladimir the Holy, who married the Polish Duke Casimir the Restorer.
Thus, the marriage of Charles and Diana was unique in that it combines the descendants of two Russian Royal houses of Rurik and Romanov. Interestingly, the first “monarchical” marriage bond of Rurik and Romanov came in February 1547, when seventeen-year-old Ivan IV married Anastasia Romanovna Zagarino-Yuriev.
Through 434 years Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, married Diana Spencer. The first Union of Rurik and Romanov ended with the untimely death of the Queen. The second also ended in dramatic. May the blood of Rurik gets bad with Romanovsky genome…
Pilgrim
It is significant that Prince Charles regularly visits the Holy mount Athos and stopped in the monastery of Vatopedi. The monastery became a favorite place of solitude for the Prince from the time of his marriage to Diana. The Prince came to the monastery, where he spent time with the brethren in prayer and contemplation. At leisure painted watercolor scenic views of mount Athos. Pilgrims visiting Athos, are obliged to spend the night in a shared bedroom and observe the humble way of life inherent to the monks. The only concession to the Prince of Wales was that he lived in a small separate cell, but slept on a simple bed with a foam mattress.
Charles first appeared on the Holy mountain with his father, Duke Philip. One of the Athonite monks recalls: “Prince Charles always welcome here. This is the place where he seem to gain peace of mind. The attitude here, as a monk, and he lived as we do, starting from the fact that tastes the same as we are.”
One of the highest Royal sources supplements that are increasingly under the burden of years Charles seeks to answer the spiritual and philosophical properties. “The spiritual life is very important to him these days… He is the man oppressed by many cares, so has been hoping for privacy, allowing you to concentrate on spiritual matters”. Rumor has it that the Prince has secretly converted to Orthodoxy and even considering the adoption of monasticism sacrificing the British crown. Maybe it’s just a legend. But the legend is very beautiful.
The tree on the Solovki
Prince Charles in 2003, visited the Solovetsky monastery. This event was covered by all news agencies. What version was not invented by the journalists about the details of this visit! Some journalists wrote that Prince Charles came to Solovki on foot. Where he went was not specified (maybe London?), in fact, though, the Prince came to Solovki less ascetic way: arrived by plane an-24. Another newspaper wrote that the Prince Charles, was sent to Solovki to see the local Botanical gardens (in England with gardens napryazhenka) and Prince were taken to the Islands on the UAZ-loaf. As always, the truth is obvious idle speculation. Prince Charles always had a dream to visit the Solovetsky monastery, as he considers it a “world pearl”. Prince Charles planted the memory of seedling Siberian fir and promised that he would delegate people to care for the tree. Whatever may be said of journalists about the fact that Charles arrived to Solovki, to honor the memory of the prisoners of Soviet camps, we see that the reason all-taki in other. The proximity to Orthodoxy Charles blood, his keen interest in the Orthodox shrines obvious.
Russian icons at the wedding ceremony
During the marriage of the son of Prince Charles, William, Russian viewers could see in Westminster Abbey, where the ceremony took place, Orthodox icons. Their appearance at the main Anglican Cathedral is no accident. These images appeared in Westminster Abbey in 1994, were written by iconographer Sergei Fyodorov. The mere presence of Orthodox icons in the Abbey during the marriage of Prince William looks pretty revealing. What is it – a tribute to Orthodox ancestors or demonstrative gesture, which can be compared with the grandfather of William, Philip, continued to be baptized three fingers after the adoption of Anglicanism.
Granny nun
Princess Alice died on 5 Dec 1969 …
Father Charles, Duke Philip, was born and lived for some time in Greece. His father was a Greek Prince Andrew, and grandmother – Olga Konstantinovna, Grand Duchess of the Romanov dynasty. After the wedding, Elizabeth Philip adopted the Anglican faith, although in an interview repeatedly said that he continues to consider himself Orthodox. Mother of Phillip, grandmother of Prince Charles, Alice Battenberg was Orthodox and actively helped the Orthodox Church. During the occupation of Greece by the Nazis, she hid in his house the Jews, saving them from being sent to concentration camps.
The son’s wedding was the last event in which Alice of Battenberg appeared in secular dress. Blessed son, and back in Athens, it is forever clothed in the monastic robe, and realized his dream by organizing the memory of aunt Ella’s order of sisters, which was brought up future babysitters and nurses. Died Alice of Battenberg in 1969 at Buckingham Palace. Before her death she expressed a desire to be buried in Jerusalem next to aunt, Elizabeth Feodorovna. This wish was fulfilled on 3 December 1988 when her remains were moved to the Church in Jerusalem.
“Revival of Russia”
For the past two decades walking through the world saying, which is supposedly in the early 1990s, Prince Charles stated at the meeting in a closed English clubs. The quote in full: “I don’t see the world any points where there may come a rebirth of themselves because you gentlemen realize that all of us rolling into the abyss of depravity, debauchery, robbery, theft, immorality full to perversion full. The only point that I see, where can be beginning of some sort of revival of Russia”.
The interest in Orthodoxy came to Charles Philipovich in 1996, and it became twice a year to visit the Holy mountain, constantly staying in the monastery of Vatopedi, sometimes more than a month. The Prince of Wales opened at the monastery of Vatopedi restored Church of St. Evdokim. Funds for this were provided by the Friends of mount Athos”, the chief and one of the sponsors of which he is.
During visits to mount Athos, Charles lives in a tiny cell and rises at 5 o’clock to pray together with the monks. Free from prayer and works of time painting. Some of them were sold at a London auction, and the proceeds from their sale money Prince Charles gave to Vatopedi. As noted by the entourage of the Prince, “a short departure from the worldly Affairs and the strenuous spiritual work the most positive impact on Prince Charles”.
Now Charles took custody of the Orthodox churches in Bosnia and Kosovo.
