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St John's Churchyard in the small village of Ivington, just outside Leominster, is not the most obvious resting place for European royalty, but it contains a grave to Princess Sophia Mickeladze.听

The Russian Princess is believed to have been related to the former Romanovs, and she fled her homeland in 1917 as a refugee.听

Although she arrived in Herefordshire to live at Bankfield House in Ivington, her husband Prince Iverico was imprisoned in Russia and they were never reunited.听

Her husband died in 1931, and the Princess eventually gained permission to bring his body to Britain - she died in 1943, and they are buried together just to the left of the porch.听

The grave is marked with a Russian Orthodox stone cross and a simple inscription, but the Hereford Times reported in February 2005 that children from Ivington Primary School had studied the story for a history project, and were trying to persuade the parish council to erect a more fitting memorial for a royal couple.