In her memories THE GOLDEN DREAMS OF YOUTH queen olga told about all the attempts to marry her off.
In 1838 the imperial family visited berlin. she was 16. bavarian royal family wanted the crown prince max to marry olga. it was a special wish of his aunt loiuse, nee princess of prussia. in fact, the bavarian family initially thought about maria nikolaevna but max decided that it was to be only olga. max detected similarity between olga and a lady on an old painting in one of his castles.that`s how he fell in love with olga. olga didn`t even suspect what max`s intentions were, what`s more she didn`t even suspect that max was courting her because he concentrated his attention on himself talking only about himself, his castles, his dreams, legends, misunderstanding between him and his father. how could she imagine that the young man was courting her.she danced with nobody but max because everybody thought that olga and max would soon announce their engagement. olga was the only person who didn`t suspect what was going going. the next day as olga and max were coming back home after breakfast in charlottenburg olga ran away from max and ran towards uncle wilhelm thus seeking protection from max. it was only a few hours later that her mother,empress alexandra feodorovna,explained what was going on and olga screamed no!no!no!
when she was 17 another suitor appeared-Archduke Albrecht. he was in love with Olga, she liked him but her feelings towards him were purely friendly. she wasn`t attracted to him physically.
