Vanity Fair Italia has just published a piece with news of Grand Duke George and Princess Romanoff from their summer holiday on the Italian coast. You may read the original article HERE. RL is happy to provide an italian translation.
The Italian Holidays of George Mikhailovich and Rebecca Bettarini (waiting for the royal baby).
The last heir of the tsars and the Italian businesswoman, expecting their first child, made a stop in Rome and then in Puglia with the two animals from which they never separate: their dog Zhong and their Parrot, Gilbert
ROBERTA MERCURI
12 August 2022
Last October, photos of their imperial wedding in St. Petersburg went around the world. Now the last heir to the tsars, George Mikhailovich, and Italian businesswoman Rebecca Bettarini, expecting their first child, decided to spend their first vacation as a husband and wife in Italy. The Royals-who in July announced they were expecting a boy-made a stop in Rome and then in Puglia. The social media photos - from the capital to the trulli of Alberobello-reveal the already evident baby bump of the expectant mother and expose all her joy.
George Mikhailovich, 41, son of Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia and Grand Duchess Maria, and Rebecca Bettarini, 36, daughter of Ambassador Roberto Bettarini, have been linked for eleven years. The two met at a reception at the French Embassy in Brussels. "The courtship was natural, spontaneous: we discovered that we had the same values, the same education. A deep friendship was born that little by little turned into love".
On October 4, 2021, George and Rebecca entered St. Isaac's Cathedral for the first imperial wedding in over a century, in the city of St. Petersburg, built by his ancestor, Peter the Great. The couple were visibly moved when they received the wedding blessing from the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg, the highest religious authority, in a ceremony attended by the Crowned Heads of half the world. Almost a year after the "yes" the two, for their first holidays as husband and wife and the last, perhaps, before becoming parents, have chosen Italy.
