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The yacht Royal Romance is a 92 meter Feadship built as hull #1005, designed by De Voogt Naval Architects.
Her interior design is done by Seymour Diamond. She is powered by two MTU diesel engines. One of her features is a 12 meter pool, which flows into a waterfall.
Royal Romance accommodates 14 guests and 22 crew members. She was delivered to her owner in July 2015.
Royal Romance has an estimated value of more than US$ 200 million. The luxury yacht Royal Romance is not available for charter, but enquire for your ultimate charter experience on other yachts.
Ukrainian based oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk may be the owner of the yacht Royal Romance.
SuperYachtFan thinks Royal Romance is a replacement of the 2008 CRN yacht Romance, as both yachts have the same R in their logos. After some intensive search on the Internet, SuperYachtFan found this blog, which mentions Viktor Medvedchuk as the owner of the yacht Romance. If that information is correct, than Viktor Medvedchuk is also the owner of the yacht Royal Romance. Romance was sold and is now named Royal Rubin. We think she is named after an International Grand Prix stallion and is owned by a UK owner.
Viktor Medvedchuk is an Ukrainian based oligarch and close friend of Russian President Putin. Medvedchuk is known as one of the ‘Kiev Seven’ and founder of a Kiev based law firm. The Kiev Seven are a group of very succesfull businessmen. The Kyiv Seven includes Viktor Medvedchuk, Valentyn Zhursky, Grygoriy and Ihor Surkis, Bohdan Hubsky, Yuriy Karpenko and Yuriy Liakh who died in 2004.
K7’s business background began in 1992 through offshore companies, such as Berly Management, New Port Management and Ometa 21st Century National Investment Fund, a multi-
In 1994, K7’s commercial entities set up Slavutych Industrial and Financial Concern, a closed joint stock company. The multi-
K7’s business grew and diversified. Slavutych Nafta, Slavutych Agro and Ukrainian Gas Complex CJSC began to develop individual profitable business lines, later joined by Dynamo Kyiv Football Club, headed by Grygoriy Surkis (source: Ukrainianweek.com).
Russian President Putin is the god father of Viktor Medvedchuk's daughter. Viktor Medvedchuk also ran the three largest television stations in Ukraine: UT-
According to some sources the net worth of Medvedchuk is between US$ 460 million and US$ 800 million. Medvedchuk owns a Dassault Falcon 900EX private jet with registration P4-
Useful Viktor Medvedchuk links
wikipedia.org/Viktor_Medvedchuk
files.korrespondent.net/persons/medvedchuk
www.nytimes.com/friend-
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