Louis Mountbatten and The Romanovs
"These old family photograph albums bring back memories of all the happy times we had together in that almost unbelievable world before the Revolution."
"We used to see each other quite often either in Germany, or in Russia. I loved my Russian family and I loved Russia too"
"Olga, Marie, Anastasia and Tatiana were all very beautiful. I remember I had always secretly hoped to marry Marie."
"Yet anyone less like an autocrat than my uncle Nicky would be hard to imagine…he was a very, very kind-hearted simple charming man."
"He was never happier than when he was outside playing with his children. I remember he would purchase us all chocolate-ices, and after, settle down with a long book to read quietly in peace"
"And now, all that was finished. All the happy memories were things of the past…"
Lord Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten
