In 1896, Prince Charles of Denmark took it upon himself to read the horoscope of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Tsar Nicholas II’s infant daughter. Based on the relative positions of Jupiter and Neptune at the moment of Olga’s birth, Prince Charles felt confident that the child would grow to be a woman of medium height, with a round face and chestnut hair. He predicted several “critical periods” in Olga’s childhood, noting that if she reached the age of eight, she would enjoy “twelve years of peace.” This period of happiness was to be cherished, Prince Charles concluded... “for it is certain that she will never live to be thirty.”