(Ed. Note: The following is an extract from the serial biography of Prince Michael Romanoff, nee Gerguson, an impostor.)

Hence there appeared on the Harvard campus in March, 1923, a sawed-off youth wearing a monocle, top hat, morning coat, and sponge-bag trousers. He was temporarily put up at the Harvard Union in a bed in which President Roosevelt once had slept. Later he stopped for a time at the Phoenix Club. Specialists in the Prince's Harvard career say that he brushed aside the matter of entrance requirements by describing to President Lowell, in a personal interview, how his papers had been destroyed when the Rods burned the Winter Palace. Mike was enrolled as a student of engineering in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. One of his intimates at Harvard was Henri do Castellane. Mike had introduced himself. "Old man," he said, "I find we are cousins." Mike gained many other interesting friends, some of whom are still his friends, but he was not entirely popular. Some of the students complained that his face had a Near-Eastern cast. Cases of champagne and buckets of caviar, which Mike opened when funds arrived from the Northwest, won over many from the anti-Romanoff faction. The news spread with magical rapidity through the ancient seat of learning that a new and important "green pea," or inexhaustible spender, had been discovered. The greatest of Mike's parties at the Copley-Plaza was attended by representatives of many feudal houses of Boston. The Prince put a sudden stop to his grandiose hospitality in order to punish the hotel for presenting a bill. "This is most presumptuous," said Mike. "My people are accustomed to receive annual statements only. I shall never patronize your hostelry again."

Mike quit the hotel. In November, 1923, he quit Harvard. He had been summoned to the University office, where many documents were laid before him. These indicated that he was not a Romanoff, that his current name was unknown at Eton or Oxford, and that he had bilked many students, professors, and tradespeople. "Gentlemen," replied Mike, "I must decline to discuss the matter."