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The Russian Royal Family Stayed At The Beach Hotel, Ventnor

Wednesday, 3rd October, 2007 at 11:31 am, Isle of Wight

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The Russian Royal Family Stayed at The Beach Hotel, VentnorRob, standing on the roof of his cab (to get mobile reception no doubt!), called into Jon Cuthill’s Radio Solent programme, to let everyone know that his parents used to own the Beach Hotel (where the garden of the Mill Bay is now) and they told him that when clearing out some of the hotel’s paperwork, they found documentation of the time the Russian Royal family stayed there.

That’s another one to add to the list of famous people who stayed in Ventnor.

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4 Responses to “The Russian Royal Family Stayed At The Beach Hotel, Ventnor”

  1. Click if you like this comment Wednesday On VB : Ventnor Blog     says:
    4, October 2007 at 8:04 am

    [...] The Russian Royal Family Stayed At The Beach Hotel, Ventnor [...]

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  2. Click if you like this comment Graham Anderson     says:
    5, October 2007 at 6:00 pm

    And I bet they wish that they had stayed here !!

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  3. Click if you like this comment Bob Williamson     says:
    27, December 2007 at 11:33 am

    Another member of russian royal family Alexander HERZEN stayed in Ventnor in 1855 and made some skethes of Ventnor (which were recently found in the basement of a Museum in Amsterdam). I have photocopies of these sketches and am researching the HERZEN / Ventnor connection (apparently he was a revolutionary writer who was banned from Russia by the Tsar Nicholas 2nd and Lenin describes HERZEN as being the father of quote: “russian socialism”. I would be very interested to hear from Bob (or anyone else) as to the dates when the russian royal family stayed at the Beach Hotel….(the only other possible connection as to why he stayed in Ventnor was that he knew another russian refugee ‘Turgenev’ who wrote ‘Fathers and sons’…one of HERZEN’s plays ‘The Coast of Utopia’ was shown in the Royal National Theatre in 2002. (one of the scenes from that play was on ‘Ventnor seafront’.

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  4. Click if you like this comment Di Whitelock     says:
    18, April 2008 at 12:37 pm

    Family legend has it that my maternal great grandmother Elizabeth Lathey worked as a ladies maid to a lesser known Russian Princess who lived in Ventnor sometime after 1881 and before her marriage in 1886. I wonder if there is a connection here and would welcome more information please.

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