For those unfamiliar with the story, HRH Prince Chakrabongse was a son of HM King Chulalongkorn and HM Queen Saowabha Phongsi. Educated abroad, Prince Chakrabongse was first sent to England and then in 1898 to Russia wherr he had personally been invited by Czar Nichlas II It was in St Petersburg in the spring of 1905 that he met and fell in love with red-headed Russian girl named Catherina Ivanova Desnitskaya, affectionately called Katya