The emperor, mild of manner, was tough as old boots. He was indifferent to luxury. When in civilian dress, he wore the same suit he had used since his bachelor days. His trousers were on the scruffy side and his boots were dilapidated.
For food, he favored simple Russian dishes like beetroot soup, cabbage soup, or porridge…. The Isle of Wight visit may have called for grander meals than Nicholas liked and more family demands than Alexandra could easily cope with. But they were clearly glad they came. George and Nicholas saw each other one more time.
Neither of them much liked Wilhelm, and their countries were formally allied against Germany. But Wilhem was the grandson of Queen Victoria. Family was family. Five years almost to the day that the Standart anchored off England, certain family connections crumbled forever. World War I broke out.
It was a war that inflicted untold horrors on both countries. King George V was deeply distressed when he heard that the Russian Revolution led Nicholas to abdicate in and the family to be placed under house arrest.
Proposals were floated for the Russian royals to go into exile and settle in England. However, the invitation was later withdrawn. The Romanovs were forced to go to Siberia, and there they died. It was long assumed that the British government had overruled George V, who was a constitutional monarch.
But papers released in the s showed that it was George himself—fearing that the British monarchy was losing support—who felt he could not take the risk of welcoming to England a man whom the public decried as a blood-stained tyrant. His friendship gave way to the needs of the Windsors.
It is highly unlikely he thought a firing squad awaited his cousin. Nonetheless, it is a sensitive subject in the royal family to this day. In , a century after the murder of the Romanovs , a commemorative monument was unveiled on the Isle of Wight in East Cowes, close to Osborne House. Its organizer, David Hill, said to the BBC, "History hasn't always portrayed him well, but we thought it was important history is remembered and that the Tsar was recognised here in Cowes where he spent happy times.
The monument stands tall, not too far from where the four Romanov sisters gathered shells and bought postcards, and where two men so alike they were mistaken for twins linked arms and posed for the camera. The Scene. Of course, conflict did break out.
The unprecedented slaughter of the Great War — mechanised, brutal and shorn of chivalry — was a savage rebuke to the idea that close familial links between royal families would somehow prevent nations from descending into bloodshed.
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