Born 'Natalia Sheremetyev on June 26, 1880 in Moscow, Russia.
The daughter of a Moscow lawyer, she was a beautiful girl who first married at 16, to the music director of the Bolshoi, Mamontov. She soon divorced him and married an army officer by the name of Wulfert serving under Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov, (1878-1914) brother of Tsar Nicholas II.
Natalia was eighteen years old when she met Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov and it was said as love at to be love at first sight for both parties. They soon became lovers, and the Grand Duke wrote to his brother the Tsar, as required, requesting his permission for them to marry. Not only because Natalia was divorced but also because she was not of Royal blood, the Tsar refused. For some time Grand Duke Mikhail lived with Natalia and she gave birth to a son, Georgi on July 24, 1910. She and her Mikhail were then exiled to Austria in disgrace.
Eventually Mikhail ignored his brother’s decree and in a great love story, secretly married Natalia in Vienna on October 15, 1911 in a Serbian Orthodox Church. The significance of the venue was that this marriage could not be put aside by Tsar Nicholas or the Russian Orthodox church.
In March 1917 Grand Duke Mikhail refused to succeed his brother Nicholas after he abdicated as as Tsar. Natalia obeyed her husband’s order and escaped from Russia with a Danish passport, disguised as a Red Cross nurse and in July 1918 her husband was murdered in Perm, by the Cheka.
Natalia Romanov died in Paris on January 26, 1952 and is buried in Cimetière de Passy, Paris, France with their only son Georgi Romanov (Prince Brassov) who was killed in an automobile accident on July 22, 1931.