George 6 and Nicholas 2. George the Fifth - exchange king? last years of life
"Angel Alexander"
The second child of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich and Maria Feodorovna was Alexander. Unfortunately, he died in infancy from meningitis. The death of the "angel Alexander" after a transient illness was hard experienced by the parents, judging by their diaries. For Maria Feodorovna, the death of her son was the first loss of relatives in her life. Meanwhile, fate had prepared for her to outlive all her sons.
Alexander Alexandrovich. The only (posthumous) photograph
Handsome George
For some time, the heir of Nicholas II was his younger brother George
As a child, George was healthier and stronger than his older brother Nikolai. He grew up a tall, handsome, cheerful child. Despite the fact that George was his mother's favorite, he, like other brothers, was brought up in Spartan conditions. The children slept on army beds, got up at 6 o'clock and took a cold bath. For breakfast, they were usually served porridge and black bread; for lunch, lamb cutlets and roast beef with peas and baked potatoes. The children had at their disposal a living room, a dining room, a playroom and a bedroom furnished with the simplest furniture. Only the icon, adorned with precious stones and pearls, was rich. The family lived mainly in the Gatchina Palace.
Family of Emperor Alexander III (1892). From right to left: George, Xenia, Olga, Alexander III, Nikolai, Maria Feodorovna, Mikhail
George was predicted to have a career in the Navy, but then Grand Duke fell ill with tuberculosis. Since the 1890s, George, who became Tsarevich in 1894 (Nikolai did not yet have an heir), lives in the Caucasus, in Georgia. Doctors even forbade him to go to St. Petersburg for his father's funeral (although he was present at his father's death in Livadia). George's only joy was his mother's visits. In 1895 they traveled together to visit relatives in Denmark. There he had another seizure. George was bedridden for a long time, until he finally felt better and returned to Abastumani.
Grand Duke Georgy Alexandrovich at his desk. Abastumani. 1890s
In the summer of 1899, George was riding a motorcycle from the Zekar Pass to Abastumani. Suddenly he started bleeding from his throat, he stopped and fell to the ground. On June 28, 1899, Georgy Alexandrovich died. The section revealed: extreme malnutrition, chronic tuberculous process in the period of cavernous decay, cor pulmonale (right ventricular hypertrophy), interstitial nephritis. The news of George's death was a heavy blow to the entire imperial family and especially for Maria Feodorovna.
Xenia Alexandrovna
Ksenia was her mother's favorite, and outwardly she looked like her. Her first and only love was the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (Sandro), who was friends with her brothers and often visited Gatchina. Ksenia Alexandrovna was "crazy" for a tall, slender brunette, believing that he was the best in the world. She kept her love a secret, telling about it only to her older brother, the future Emperor Nicholas II, a friend of Sandro. Alexander Mikhailovich Ksenia was a cousin-niece. They married on July 25, 1894, and she bore him a daughter and six sons in the first 13 years of their marriage.
Alexander Mikhailovich and Xenia Alexandrovna, 1894
When traveling with her husband abroad, Xenia visited with him all those places that could be considered “not quite decent” for the royal daughter, she even tried her luck at the gaming table in Monte Carlo. However, the married life of the Grand Duchess did not work out. My husband has new hobbies. Despite seven children, the marriage actually fell apart. But Xenia Alexandrovna did not agree to a divorce from the Grand Duke. Despite everything, she managed to keep her love for the father of her children until the end of her days, sincerely experienced his death in 1933.
It is curious that after the revolution in Russia, George V allowed a relative to settle in a cottage not far from Windsor Castle, while Xenia Alexandrovna's husband was forbidden to appear there due to treason. From others interesting facts- her daughter, Irina, married Felix Yusupov, the murderer of Rasputin, a scandalous and outrageous personality.
Possible Michael II
Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich was perhaps the most significant for all of Russia, except for Nicholas II, the son of Alexander III. Before the First World War, after marrying Natalya Sergeevna Brasova, Mikhail Alexandrovich lived in Europe. The marriage was unequal, moreover, by the time of its conclusion, Natalya Sergeevna was married. The lovers had to get married in Serbian Orthodox Church in Vienna. Because of this, all the estates of Mikhail Alexandrovich were taken under control by the emperor.
Mikhail Alexandrovich
Some monarchists called Mikhail Alexandrovich Mikhail II
With the outbreak of the First World War, Nikolai's brother asked to go to Russia to fight. As a result, he headed the Native Division in the Caucasus. Wartime was marked by many conspiracies being prepared against Nicholas II, but Mikhail did not participate in any, being faithful to his brother. However, it was the name of Mikhail Alexandrovich that was increasingly mentioned in various political combinations drawn up in the court and political circles of Petrograd, and Mikhail Alexandrovich himself did not take part in the preparation of these plans. A number of contemporaries pointed to the role of the wife of the Grand Duke, who became the center of the “Brasova salon”, which preached liberalism and nominated Mikhail Alexandrovich to the role of head of the royal house.
Alexander Alexandrovich with his wife (1867)
The February revolution found Mikhail Alexandrovich in Gatchina. Documents show that in the days February Revolution he tried to save the monarchy, but not out of a desire to take the throne himself. On the morning of February 27 (March 12), 1917, he was called to Petrograd by the chairman of the State Duma, M. V. Rodzianko. Arriving in the capital, Mikhail Alexandrovich met with the Provisional Committee of the Duma. They urged him to essentially legitimize the coup d'etat: become a dictator, dismiss the government and ask his brother to create a responsible ministry. By the end of the day, Mikhail Alexandrovich was persuaded to take power as a last resort. Subsequent events will reveal the indecision and inability of brother Nicholas II to engage in serious politics in an emergency.
Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich with his morganatic wife N. M. Brasova. Paris. 1913
It is appropriate to recall the characterization given to Mikhail Alexandrovich by General Mosolov: "He was distinguished by exceptional kindness and gullibility." According to the memoirs of Colonel Mordvinov, Mikhail Alexandrovich was “of a soft character, although quick-tempered. He is inclined to succumb to the influence of others ... But in actions that affect issues of moral duty, he always shows perseverance!
Last Grand Duchess
Olga Alexandrovna lived to be 78 years old and died on November 24, 1960. She survived older sister Xenia for seven months.
In 1901 she married the Duke of Oldenburg. The marriage was unsuccessful and ended in divorce. Subsequently, Olga Alexandrovna married Nikolai Kulikovsky. After the fall of the Romanov dynasty, she left for the Crimea with her mother, husband and children, where they lived in conditions close to house arrest.
Olga Alexandrovna as an honorary commander of the 12th Akhtyrsky Hussars
She is one of the few Romanovs who survived after October revolution. She lived in Denmark, then in Canada, survived all the other grandchildren (granddaughters) of Emperor Alexander II. Like her father, Olga Alexandrovna preferred a simple life. During her life she painted more than 2,000 paintings, the proceeds from the sale of which allowed her to support her family and do charity work.
Protopresbyter Georgy Shavelsky recalled her this way:
“Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, among all the persons of the imperial family, was distinguished by her extraordinary simplicity, accessibility, and democracy. In his estate of the Voronezh province. she completely undressed herself: she walked around village huts, nursed peasant children, etc. In St. Petersburg, she often walked, drove simple cabs, and she loved to talk with the latter very much.
Imperial couple in the circle of close associates (summer 1889)
General Alexei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin:
“My next date with led. Princess Olga Alexandrovna was on November 12, 1918 in the Crimea, where she lived with her second husband, captain of the hussar regiment Kulikovsky. Here she is even more relaxed. It would be difficult for someone who did not know her to believe that this was the Grand Duchess. They occupied a small, very poorly furnished house. The Grand Duchess herself nursed her baby, cooked and even washed clothes. I found her in the garden, where she carried her child in a stroller. She immediately invited me into the house and there she treated me to tea and her own products: jam and biscuits. The simplicity of the setting, bordering on squalor, made it even more sweet and attractive.
This is the picture my brain painted after studying a bunch of documentary material, the bibliography of which I will attach in the textbook when I finish.
Here is how it was.
Strokes to fit in the format of the post.
There lived two cousins, King George V of England and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Purebred Germans.
Atheists.
Members of Masonic lodges.
They looked like twin brothers.
They loved each other since childhood without memory.
Nikolai's mother, the so-called Maria Feodorovna, confused them.
(This is to the question that our contemporaries are trying to distinguish them from the pictures - their own mother could not distinguish!).
They were very fond of making fun of and many times in their youth and maturity they pretended to be each other and had a lot of fun when it all rolled.
And it always rolled.
When they reigned - one in England with colonies, and the other in Russia - it turned out that they dominate almost the whole world.
Especially when you consider that their beloved cousin Wilhelm 2 reigned over Germany and its colonies.
In 1914 (incorrect reckoning), George 6, while in Belgium, fell off his horse and broke his hip bone.
The injuries were so severe that he could no longer walk, and after a while it became clear that the king was not a tenant.
Then, in the minds of the cousins (Wilhelm and Nikolai), a simple, but unprecedented in scale, plan to deceive all mankind matured.
We don't tell anyone about George's death.
Out of the blue we start a war with each other.
We hand over Russia in concession for a hundred years to the Jews of the Rothschilds.
We imitate the death of "Nikolai", and the real Nikolai himself continues to rule as George 5 over the whole world from London.
All the treasures of Russia, the new Jewish tenants undertake to give away under the terms of the concession, and then create a powerful industrial base for the extraction and processing of underground minerals for the entire world of that time - this was already an urgent requirement of the unfolding scientific progress.
And it was already clear from Stolypin's experiments what bloody and black work it would be - not for royal white hands.
As decided, so they did.
Started out of the blue war.
Like in the Donbass only on a larger scale.
The front line stood in one place all three years.
The only exception is one Brusilovsky breakthrough, and then probably more for plausibility.
The war prepared public discontent and gave an explanation for all kinds of force majeure and the growth of Jewish revolutionary movement in Russia and Germany.
Then the king type got tired and abdicated.
None of the relatives picked up the throne and began to rule the Provisional Government of citizens prepared in advance.
The real Nikolai left for London immediately after his abdication, where his family was already waiting for him.
The combined family of twins from March to August went through a kind of quarantine and getting used to their roles in Tsarskoye Selo, and then on the Red Cross train (English intelligence) departed for the Urals and disappeared there.
In the meantime, a whole gang of Jewish rabble from Rothschild and Rockefeller arrived from America and Europe already to create a permanent government of the new Russia - Soviet government Soviet Russia.
Then it was officially reported that the king had been killed.
Apparently it was the best thing to do.
The twins were also evacuated.
It is clear why the killing of doubles was also unacceptable.
The body doubles could have been identified either then or decades later.
Therefore, there are no corpses.
It is documented how Alexei's double was taken out.
The fate of the rest of the doppelgangers is unknown.
But the fate of the real Nicholas, the real Alice and their daughters and son is well known.
Nicholas was King George V of England and died in London at the age of 79 from euthanasia, that is, he committed suicide.
Alexey, from my point of view, on which I do not really insist, this is George 6.
Indirect evidence of this is not only the external resemblance and the logical sequence of succession to the throne, but also the fact that there is NOT A SINGLE CHILD PHOTO OF GEORGE 6.
With thousands of photos of all the other princes of all European countries.
Alice Darmstadt lived beautifully with one of her daughters in the most luxurious castle in England, Louth Ho, near London.
Entire books have been written about the adventures of the eccentric Anastasia and the High Court of London has been 40 years old !!!
He considered the question “Is she Romanov or not” and the final verdict of the highest court of Great Britain - “we can’t say anything unambiguously”.
The elegance of the idea lies in the fact that no one was hiding from anyone.
There was no TV then.
The resemblance of Nicholas to George gave him the opportunity to rule perfectly in his stead.
In order not to lie endlessly and feel comfortable, Nikolai-Georg even changed the name of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty to which the late George 6 belonged to the “Winzor dynasty”.
Windsor is not a dynasty at all - it is the name of the castle where both George and Nikolai and Alice spent a lot of time in their childhood.
You say, did no one understand that this was Nikolai?
Well, first of all, close people understood.
As for the crowd, look at yourself - what difference does it make who among us understands what. The official point of view is important.
Anyone who disagrees is crazy.
Orderlies!
Now, if you understand what is happening in this way and not otherwise, then everything falls into place - and with Wilhelm's abdication, which is like two drops of water, and with Brest Peace, and with the export of gold from Russia, and with Soros exporting rarities by trucks and wagons, and with the British curators of the Soviet government, and with the gulags, collectivizations and industrializations of Russia-Europe-America, and with Hitler who got out of hand, and with a strange beginning 2- World War II, and even stranger behavior of Stalin, and the Cold War of Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and Andropov with his henchmen Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and the stabilization fund in America, and Putin and Trump, who dared to rebel against the world power of Holstein- Gottorpsky just at the end of the hundredth year of the centennial concession to the largest colony in the world - Russia.
The family ties between the Romanovs and the Windsors were not limited to the royal cousins Nicholas II and George V, who were surprisingly similar to each other. For several centuries, the Russian and British royal families managed to intermarry dozens of times.
Victoria (1819-1901)
The last representative of the Hanoverian dynasty on the throne of Great Britain. She has been on the throne for 63 years - more than any other British monarch. She gave birth to nine children who later married and married representatives of other royal dynasties, for which Victoria received the nickname "Grandmother of Europe".
Christian IX (1818-1906)
King of Denmark since 1863. By birth, he was not the direct heir to the Danish throne, but he became the successor to Frederick VII, who had no children. Christian himself had six children, of which two sons became kings (of Denmark and Greece), and two daughters became spouses of European monarchs (Britain and Russia).
Edward VII (1841-1910)
Eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Since Victoria lived to old age, Edward came to the throne at the age of 59. However, in 2008, Prince Charles (born 1948) broke this record. Prior to his accession to the throne, Edward VII was better known by his first baptismal name, Albert, or its diminutive form, Bertie.
Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925)
Eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and his wife Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Thanks to her father, the "father-in-law of Europe", she had family ties with many royal courts. Her elder brother Frederick became the king of Denmark, her younger brother Wilhelm became the king of Greece, and her younger sister Maria-Sophia-Frederica-Dagmara became the Russian empress, the wife of Alexander III, having received the name Maria Feodorovna during the transition to Orthodoxy.
Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928)
Born Maria Sophia Frederic Dagmar, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark. The name Maria Feodorovna received during the transition to Orthodoxy for marriage with the Emperor of Russia Alexander III. Mother of Nicholas II. Initially, Maria was the bride of Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov, the eldest son of Emperor Alexander II, who died in 1865. After his death, she married him younger brother, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich, with whom they together looked after the dying.
George V (1865-1936)
Second son of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. He became the heir to the British throne after the sudden death of his older brother Albert Victor, who died of influenza. It was George V who renamed the British royal house, which previously bore the name of the founder of the dynasty, the husband of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. During the First World War, George abandoned all personal and family German titles and took the surname Windsor.
George VI (1895-1952)
Second son of George V and Mary of Teck. He inherited the British throne from his older brother, the uncrowned Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1937 because he intended to marry an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson, to which the British government did not give consent. The reign of George VI was marked by the collapse of the British Empire and its transformation into the Commonwealth of Nations. He was the last emperor of India (until 1950) and the last king of Ireland (until 1949). Biography of George VI formed the basis of the plot of the film "The King's Speech".
Alice (1843-1878)
Daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, née Alice Maud Mary. In 1862 she was married to the Hessian prince Ludwig. The Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine, Alice, like her mother, was a carrier of hemophilia, a genetic disease that disrupts blood clotting. Alice's son Friedrich was a hemophiliac and died in childhood from internal bleeding after falling from a window. Alice's daughter, the future Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, was also a carrier of hemophilia, passing the disease on to her son, Tsarevich Alexei.
Alexander III (1845-1894)
The Emperor of All Russia, the Tsar of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland, who received the nickname "Peacemaker" because during the years of his reign Russia did not wage a single war. He ascended the throne after the death of his father, Alexander II, who was killed by terrorists-People's Volunteers. Alexander Alexandrovich was the youngest son of the emperor, but his older brother Nikolai died during his father's lifetime. The future Alexander III married the bride of his deceased brother, the Danish princess Dagmar.
Nicholas II (1868-1918)
Emperor of All Russia, Tsar of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland, the last Emperor Russian Empire. From the British monarchs he had the rank of Admiral of the British Navy and Field Marshal of the British Army. Nicholas II was married to the granddaughter of the British Queen Victoria, Alice of Hesse, who received the name Alexandra Feodorovna during the transition to Orthodoxy. In 1917, after the February Revolution in Russia, he abdicated, was sent into exile, and then shot with his family.
Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918)
Born Princess Alice Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice Daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine Ludwig and Duchess Alice, granddaughter of the British Queen Victoria. The name Alexandra Fedorovna received during the transition to Orthodoxy for marriage with Russian emperor Nicholas II. After the revolution of 1917, she was sent into exile with her husband, and then shot. In 2000, like other members of the executed royal family, she was canonized as a saint.
Tsarevich Alexei and the Grand Duchesses
Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna had five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei (in order of seniority). The heir to the throne, Tsarevich Alexei, was the youngest and most sickly child in the family. Hemophilia - a genetic disease that prevents normal blood clotting - he inherited from his maternal great-grandmother, British Queen Victoria. All five children of Nicholas II were shot together with their parents on the night of July 17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg.
In 1871, the second son, named George, was born in the family of the Russian Emperor Alexander 3. Unlike his older brother Nikolai, who was born three years earlier, this boy grew up as a strong and healthy child.
Nikolai on the right (sitting), George in shorts
Georgy, as the younger one, is shorter
Nikolai and George in childhood
In 1894, Alexander 3 died, Nicholas 2 ascended the throne, and George became Tsarevich, due to the absence of his own son at that time from the young emperor. George was perfect English language and prepared himself for the profession of a military sailor, as befits the youngest royal son, until he fell ill with tuberculosis, completely unexpectedly and to the great grief of the whole family.
His mother, born Danish princess Dagmar, did not find anything better than to send her son, half-German and half-Dane, to be treated at a Russian resort, where the best Russian doctors used the Tsarevich. There he lived for many years, occasionally getting out on foreign trips. Giorgi reportedly got worse when he left the Caucasus. Traveling abroad was, therefore, categorically contraindicated for him.
Not capable of military service, George spent his time in the Caucasus and almost did not appear at court. In the same place, far from the capital, he quietly died in 1899 from tuberculosis, forgotten by everyone except his relatives. This tragic event was reported in the government newspaper.
Somewhat earlier, in England, in 1892, the potential heir to the throne, Albert Victor, the grandson of Queen Victoria, suddenly died of influenza. To be sure, the untimely death of the 28-year-old prince shook the foundations of the British throne. The threat of the end of the dynasty loomed over the royal house. Luckily, there was someone to pick up the baton. Next in line to the throne after Edward (the elderly son of the reigning queen) is a young man named George, a military sailor by vocation. Incidentally, the cousin of Nicholas 2 (their mothers were sisters).
George the Fifth (sitting) and Nicholas II
Georg and Nikolai are twins,but not brothers
The kinship of mothers explains the amazing resemblance between representatives of different monarchical dynasties - Nicholas and George. The similarity, which is so often observed among siblings, amazed contemporaries.
In 1901, Queen Victoria dies, and in 1910, Edward 7, who succeeded her. George 5 becomes the new king.
The first decade of George's reign was marked by the strengthening of Anglo-Russian relations, initiated by his father Edward. Started in 1914 World War this alliance is further strengthened. England and Russia, for the first time in a hundred years, fought side by side against a common mortal enemy, militarist Germany and her allies. The great European war became almost a family affair of two monarchs-relatives, a Russian and an Englishman, very similar to each other. The victory was predetermined.
Late Georg and Nikolai. Both were clearly made according to the same patterns.
But in 1917 a revolution took place in Russia through the intrigues of German agents, Tsar Nicholas hastened to abdicate. His (cousin) brother George, worried about the course of events, sent an invitation to the royal family to settle in England, which former king rejected, intending to stay in Russia and live a private life.
After the beginning of the Red Terror and the death of many members of the royal family, including the king himself, George took more drastic measures. In 1919, the English battleship Marlboro was sent to the Black Sea to rescue the surviving Romanovs, first of all, the mother of Nicholas 2, Maria Feodorovna. The former, as we already know, was George's own aunt, who was so similar to her late son George.
The dispatch of the ship was a bold move, which the parliamentary opposition considered a gamble. The Black Sea had been heavily mined since 1914, and the government of England opposed the sending of a warship. However, the ship was sent away and the Romanovs were saved.
It is alleged that the initiative to send the ship came solely from the Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill, who almost immediately resigned. But are there other reasons behind this that we don't know about?
Perhaps the will of one person intervened here - the English King George 5, one of the few who turned Anglo-Russian politics in a different direction? What motivated them in this case, if not simple decency?
In subsequent posts I will try to consider the issue of similarities between Geogius and George in more detail. Stay tuned! ;)
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The English king refused to accept the family of the Russian tsar, his cousin, in fact pushing his native people under bullets
100 years ago, the family of the dethroned emperor NicholasII anxiously awaiting the decision of her fate. Immediately after abdicating the throne on March 2, 1917, Nikolai asked to be sent to Tsarskoye Selo, where his wife and children (who were ill at that time) were, and then to be given the opportunity to freely travel to Murmansk. From there he hoped to move to England. The Romanovs were close relatives of the British monarchs. And they never expected that their relatives would betray them.
Love till death
Since 1910 English king became GeorgeV. His mother, queen Alexandra, was the sister of the mother of Nicholas II Maria Feodorovna, that is, she was the aunt of the Russian Tsar. Not only that, the father of George V, King EdwardVII, was mother's brother Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix), the wife of Nicholas, that is, was for Russian empress native uncle.
Cousins Georg and Nikolai were outwardly unusually similar. They say that once even Nikolai's mother herself misidentified and confused her cousins. And when Georg arrived in November 1894 for the wedding of Nikolai and Alix and went for a walk through the streets of St. Petersburg, he was followed by a huge crowd of residents in full confidence that this was a young Russian tsar.
The cousins had close friendships. "My dear Niki," was how the "devoted friend of Georgie" addressed his Russian brother in a letter, assuring him of his unchanging love and emphasizing: "Remember that you can always count on me as your friend."
A glass of Russian blood
The similarity of cousins was not accidental. Both dynasties were, as they say, from the same German root. In "Russians" Romanovs the Romanovs themselves, by the end of their reign, there was nothing left: only 1/128 share, and everything else is German blood Holstein-Gottorpov.
Already in 1730, after the death of his son Alexey Petrovich PetrII, the dynasty was cut short in the male line, and in 1761, when the daughter died PetraIElizaveta Petrovna, the female line of the Romanovs also ended. Since then, the proportion of Russian blood in the veins of our rulers has decreased with each new monarch. No wonder in the historical literature the Russian dynasty began to be called the "Romanovs-Holstein-Gottorps".
The members of the Imperial House themselves also did not indicate the name Romanov, but only the titles - emperor, empress, crown prince, grand duke. Only in 1917 did the name of the founder of the dynasty sound again, when Nikolai became a "citizen of the Romanovs."
English monarchs, like Russian ones, also chose brides from German princesses, and their dynasty was called Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Turn from the gate
The closely intertwined family ties of the monarchs of the two countries gave Nikolai a real hope for the help of his cousin in a difficult time. Moreover, since 1908 he had the rank of admiral of the English fleet, and since 1915 - field marshal of the British troops.
In the First World War, which has been ongoing since 1914, both countries were allies in a single Entente bloc (England, France, Russia) and fought together against Germany.
Head of the Provisional Government Alexander Kerensky he was mortally afraid of the restoration of the monarchy and was glad to send the royal couple somewhere far away. On March 22, 1917, an invitation came from London from the British Cabinet for Nicholas and his family to move to England for the duration of the war.
Negotiations began on how best to organize it. However, a week later, "dear friend Georgie" started talking about the "danger of the flight", about the "expediency of the imperial family's stay" in England. In short, when the moment came to send for royal family ship, British Prime Minister Lloyd George conveyed through the ambassador that "the British government, unfortunately, will not accept" royal family as guests during the war" as the king "cannot extend hospitality to people whose sympathies for Germany are more than well known".
Nothing personal
By these "people" was meant, first of all, the wife of Nikolai Alexandra Fedorovna. She, the queen's granddaughter Victoria, grew up next to George, the grandson of the same Victoria, knew him well and did not speak very flatteringly about him (“stupid person”), believing that he was more engaged in hunting and horse racing, and not state affairs. It must be assumed that the king was aware of this.
The accusations against the “hated German woman”, “traitor and spy” Alix turned out to be very opportune in Russian newspapers. A negative opinion about her went for a walk in warring Europe. Against Nicholas and his wife, the left rose in the House of Commons of England, and the trade unions were also indignant.
The king was frightened by the outburst of public opinion. He had a serious reason to give his brother a turn from the gate. And to the question of his own diplomats, how can one refuse his own invitation, the king said that, they say, he did not call Nicholas to London, but the cabinet of ministers. Here, let it loosen up.
George himself took another step to fence himself off from Germany, and at the same time from “old Nika”, who was now useless in the war and could not, as before, pay for the advance of the allied troops with the blood of Russian soldiers.
With an English accent
