After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II the Russian monarchy collapsed and the family was placed under house arrest. Meanwhile their cousin across the sea, Britain’s King George V faced a ...

King George V appeared to regret not helping his cousin Tsar Nicholas II and his family escape Russia and their eventual death. When he learned of the death of the Romanovs and their five children ...

European royalty was pretty much in the end game by the time of King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Czar Nicholas II of Russia. The problem was, these three pretty ...

Tsar Nicholas II was the cousin of King George V, who was the Queen’s grandfather. George V’s mother was Alexandra Princess of Wales, the sister of Nicholas’ mother, Dagmar of Denmark.

Episode 6 of The Crown shows how King George V, the Queen’s grandfather and the great-grandfather of King Charles III, ultimately decided not to rescue his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, from the ...

Tsar Nicholas II. Exactly 50 years later, on June 9, 1958, Queen Elizabeth II opened a newly revamped Gatwick Airport. King George VI becomes first British monarch to visit the USA - June 7 ...

Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were first cousins. In 1918, Ipatiev House was turned into a fortified prison for ex-Tsar Nicholas II and his family. As the ill-fated ...

But it wasn’t the sword of fate that struck down Imperial Russia as much as its “blinkered faith in autocracy” and the inept leadership of Tsar Nicholas II, the last ruler of the Romanov dynasty. In ...