Yet while experts have spent decades investigating the mystery surrounding Anastasia and Alexei Romanov, we often forget the eldest Imperial heir: Olga Nikolaevna Romanova. Go back in time and ...

Eugenia Smith spent much of her life in Newport claiming to be the lost princess and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas. But do her claims add up?

As the eldest daughter, the onus was often on Olga to set an example to her younger siblings. The most sensitive of the four Romanov sisters, she was also fiercely independent and strong-minded.