The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs. He never asked or wanted to be tsar of Russia ... German-born wife Alexandra, Queen Victoria’s favourite granddaughter ...

The Romanov family ruled ... her grandmother Queen Victoria the defective gene that made her son Alexei a hemophiliac. Three hundred years of Romanov rule came to an end with Nicholas IIÍs ...

By 1908, seven years after arriving in Russia as a 25-year-old, he was tutor to the five children of Tsar Nicholas II. He would stay with the family ... via two of Queen Victoria's daughters.

Tsar Nicholas ll and his family were killed by Bolsheviks in ... Wippingham, which was Queen Victoria's church when she lived at Osborne House. Karl Love The unveiling of the Romanov Mounument ...