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When Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, George's first cousin, was overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, the British government offered political asylum to the Tsar and his family, but worsening conditions for the British people, and fears that revolution might come to the British Isles, led George to think that the presence of the Romanovs ...
Kaiser Wilhelm II: The last German Emperor and King of Prussia. The third major royal player in World War One, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, also had a very personal stake in things. He was another first cousin of George V, whose mother, Alexandra of Denmark, was the sister of the Tsar’s mother, Dagmar of Denmark.
Berlin, 1913. Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II who was shot dead by the Bolsheviks together with his family, could have escaped this grim fate and left Russia after the abdication in March 1917.
Mar 10, 2011 · For the rulers of the world's three greatest nations - King George V of Great Britain and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on the one hand, and the German Kaiser on the other - were not simply cousins ...
Nov 25, 2022 · George V and Nicholas II really were cousins and bore a strong resemblance to one another. Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, and George V, King of Great Britain and Ireland in 1913.
Apr 29, 2021 · King George V has long stood accused of withdrawing an offer of asylum to Tsar Nicholas II, and abandoning him to his dreadful fate 100 years ago. It’s an alluring theory, but does it stand up to scrutiny? Could the British really have saved the Romanovs? Helen Rappaport explores
George V + Nicholas II as children and adults Royal Cousins at War Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941), third and last Emperor of Germany from 1888 - 1918 and ninth king of Prussia.
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