Is the British Royal Family To Blame For The Romanovs’ Murders?

King George V refused to provide refuge to his Russian cousins, the Emperor and Empress. This decision was fatal and in 1918, the whole family was murdered.

When Queen Victoria learned of her beloved granddaughter Alix engagement to the Tsarveich Nicholas, she was aghast.

Her granddaughter would be the next Tsaritsa of Russia and marry into a royal family that possessed fabulous wealth, vast lands and numerous palaces — but that was of little consequence to the matriarch of the British Empire.

“My blood runs cold when I think of her so young most likely placed on that very unsafe throne,” she wrote to Alix’s sister Victoria, for “her dear life and above all her husband’s’ would be ‘constantly threatened.”

History would prove Queen Victoria right. Nicholas II chose a path to persevere autocracy and relied on religious mysticism to guide his fate. He closed his mind to political and social unrest.

Like her husband, Alexandra ferociously clung to her principles on autocracy. The catastrophic events that unfolded in 1917 was inevitable.

Despite her grandmother’s apprehension, Alix of Hesse would marry into the Russian royal family. The ‘sunny Alix’ Queen Victoria doted on had become a full-blown haughty Empress who was all too aware of her grand, superior status. Alexandra’s…