A vivid and well-researched novel about Grand Duke Michael who briefly reigned as the last Tsar of Russia. Fully illustrated to show the assets used and resumé of important political and armed forces leaders of that time. 

No other books have taken a slice of Russian history and reinterpreted it to reveal a hidden story; one of survival against the odds and adventures that extend from Russia to the UK, Denmark and Estonia.. In The Two Lives of Grand Duke Michael, numerous historical high-ranking figures are set within an audacious plot in a ‘what if’ drama against the backdrop of the First World War and which could have changed 20th Century history. 

The allies plan to invade Russia, destroy the Bolshevik Revolution and bring back Russia to war with Germany on the eastern front. Lured by the idea of becoming the Tsar of the reinstated Imperial Rule, Michael is swayed by Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill to bring him out of Bolshevik Russia to the UK. The purpose is to agree terms and incorporate Michael’s ‘Prometheus Accord’ for political renewal and freedom in Russia. The ensuing two-week journey provides high adventure and gripping entertainment as he journeys in exotic cars, battleships, sea planes and secret German submarines, and with the additional intent of secreting a multi-million pound hoard of Romanov treasures on the Yorkshire coast in the UK. It comes to a halting stop when, as history tells us, the Grand Duke Michael’s attempts to defeat the emergence of Bolshevism is thwarted, and he is assassinated whilst under house arrest in Siberia. 

Here the story is set for the author’s imagined second chapter for Grand Duke Michael. He carefully crafts, in detail, the revelation of his survival. How he is helped by Sidney Reilly of MI6, and his second life in the UK under a new identity and care of the British Secret Service whilst working at Bletchley Park in World War Two. 

He marries an MI6 Spy, Olga Bystrovia and a son and heir to the Russian Throne is born.  The trilogy is being written for a 2018 epic where his granddaughter claims the Russian Throne as Tsarina.

Story Highlights.

• The exile of Grand Duke Michael Romanov to the UK in 1912 with his commoner wife Natasha Brasova (nee Wulfert) resonate in identical terms to King Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson.
• Nicholas Johnson, now canonized as a saint together with Michael within the Russian Orthodox Church, was a British Citizen whose loyalty and friendship as his secretary was unequalled, choosing to die with him at the murder scene in 1918.
• Sidney Reilly was the `Ace of Spies` as per the 1980`s BBC TV 12-part series on his true life, is prominent in the book placing him as a central character and illuminates his life around 1918 and the years leading up to his murder in Russia in 1925.
• Ian Fleming based his novels of James Bond on Reilly.  This gives an adventurous insight of Reilly in Russia (aka James Bond) providing some insight into the roots of Bond.
• OLGA BYSTROVIA is created as a pure bread Indian national, highly intelligent, devastatingly beautiful, and charming MI6 super spy of 1918 up to her death in in the 60`s. (see inside flap photo and pamphlet).  This could create massive interest amongst Indian readerships.
• Ethel Voynich author of the famous 1898 novel The Gadfly encounters Sidney Reilly….. and truths are exchanged…???  Bringing these finally into the public domain.
• Admiral Jellico (Jutland 1916) has his last hurrah in a U-boat battle whilst commanding the Iron Duke and unlocks revelations of his condemnation as truths are discussed at MI6 level…?
• King George V encounters the wrath of Michael Romanov who demands to know the reason `WHY`.  The truths are revealed.
• Admiral Scheer and Admiral Tirpitz commanders of the German High Seas Fleet, are fooled by Reilly and Olga Bystrovia by allowing them to transport Michael and Nicholas Johnson, in an ultra-secret WW1 U-Boat up the Baltic Sea to Petrograd after their two-week round journey to the UK
• Sir Stewart Menzies (head of MI6 in WWII) advises Michael Romanovs campaign to murder Hitler in Operation Foxley.  Truths are revealed as to why this operation floundered.
• King George VI encounters Evelyn Laye in Claridge’s and engages in his secret adoration of her under the watchful eye of Queen Elizabeth.

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