Prince Harry to be Czar of Russia?

Dancing in Jamaica

Sometimes Russia watching pays unexpectedly large dividends.

In today's Moscow Times I read that exiled oligarch Boris Berezovskii, who is setting up a new political party called 'Resurrection', is proposing that the monarchy is re-instated in the country, and that our very own Prince Harry could be a candidate for monarch.You can read the article here

The last czar, Nicholas II, was murdered in Ekaterinburg in 1918, along with his entire family.

Harry, claims Berezovskii, has more Romanov blood in his veins than Nicholas II, and it is of course true that our Royal Family has close links with the Russian dynasty. The shameful story of how King George V was dissuaded from helping his relations at the time of the Revolution remains an embarrasment.

I actually think that Harry might enjoy the role, although Russian dancing is, on the whole less lively than the sort he experienced in his recent official trip to the Caribbean.