Possible Claimant!!!

[charley]

http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/media/newspapers/news/old_news/foss.html

[Forum Admin]

Oy Vey! 

[Vecchiolarry]

Dear Forum Administrator,

Oy Vey! is right....
With all these people coming forward, claiming to be Alexis, Anastasia and their descendants now, I wish you to put my name down too as the next Czar!!

I'm not Romanov or even Russian but if I figure I've got just as good a chance as any of these nut cases.      

And, when I ascend the Jordon Staircase to my Coronation,  you can hold the sceptre in the procession!!!!!   

Larry

[Robert_Hall]

Any coronation would be in Moscow. The Jordan Staircase is in St. Peterserburg.  Line me up for the throne as well, I do not mind the journey!

[charley]

I put "possible" claimant because the person said they needed a DNA test first. A claimant is just a 
person who claims a benefit, right, or title, it doesn't mean the person is really who they say they are. I was only adding to the list of claimants, which I believe is the catagory. I am not giving my opinion about claimants or survivors, but why is there still such a huge interest in this. People say they don't believe, but it seems like they still have hope that some difinitive proof will come out to the contrary.

[dmitri]

Always remember what Shakespeare wrote, "Uneasy lies the head that wears the Crown."

[Vecchiolarry]

Dear Robert,

Yes, my rival claimant to the throne!! I know the Coronations were in Moscow and the Jordan Staircase is in St. Petersburg but this is a fantasy and no possibility exists.

I promise that if you attend my coronation, I'll be there for your too and we can duke it out!!! 

Larry

[dmitri]

Let's hope neither of you end up blown up on the Moika embankment, on the floor at Ekaterinburg, strangled like Peter III or Paul I or disappearing supposedly mysteriously like Alexander I. It would seem to be more a poisoned chalice than an honour to be Tsar or Tsarina of Russia. 

[Vecchiolarry]

Yes Dmitri,

It's not a job with any long-term guarantees, is it!!!!!
Perhaps I should give up my claim to the throne and just concentrate on living with my head on my neck and not possibly carrying it around in my hands......      

Thanks for the advice!

Larry

[Douglas]

Hi Robert:

I see that this Larry prretender to the throne is not aware that I'm the Tsar and have been for years.

But one more is always welcome here at Tsarskoe Selo.

Long  term guarantees?   Oh yes, once a Tsar always a Tsar.   Sorry to disappoint.  It's a calling that is for life.  No one in the moderne era can ever renounce the throne, once they claim it.   You're stuck with it.  Tsar Larry.....the new Tsar.

Cheers boys,

Tsar Douglas...........standing at the top-center in the coronation photos.

PS:  Count Robert lives over in the Yussupov  palace on the Neva......his basement has an interesting history.

Those Yussupovs were such upstarts  with all kinds of  flash.....but we love them all dearly.   

[Robert_Hall]

I sold the Neva joint. Too many tourists. And yes, Douglas, I forgot that you are Tsar. I withdraw my claim as well.

[dmitri]

Douglas you're a scream!!! Very amusing Robert as well.

[charley]

You boys are just to funny.

[Robert_Hall]

Yeah. I wanted to move onto the yacht, but it sank. Tsar Douglas offered me another, but it didn't even float!

[dmitri]

Was that before or after the former Imperial yacht Standart was sunk Robert?