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Question by : how can the romanov’s be Queen Victoria’s grand children?
she was an english monarch and they were russian princesses, separated by many miles across europe, england is nowhere near being close to russia.
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Answer by George
the Tsarina was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria so work it out for yourself.
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C.G. says
Alix of Hesse and by Rhine later Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova ,is the daughter of one of Victoria's DAUGHTERS, The Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary: Princess Louis and Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine by marriage; 25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878) .Any child of Alice's would be a grandchild of Victoria's,now wouldn't s/he?
Michael says
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (wife of Tzar Nicholas II, last Tzar) was the daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Princess Alice of the UK was the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert of the United Kingdom.
The Dark Side says
It has long been the practice for royals to marry into other royal families, either for reasons of political alliances, or because it used to be that other royals are likely to be the only people they could meet and get to know socially. Britain is a long way from Russia but even so, the royals DID get around. They always have done. How else did Queen Mary I of England end up marrying King Philip of Spain, even 400+ years ago?
Queen Victoria had nine children and they married into European royal families all over the place (largely because Victoria herself insisted that they find royal spouses), which is why all the current European royal families are related and every current reigning European king or queen is in line to the British throne if you trace the line of succession far enough. The furthest away is Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who is 800 and somethingth in line to the British throne (it changes all the time as people die and children are born).
Queen Victoria's third child, Princess Alice, married Prince Louis of Hesse. Their daughter, Victoria Alexandra Helena Louise Beatrice, usually known as Alix, once again moved in royal circles and met and fell in love with Tsarevich Nicholas of Russia. He soon became Tsar Nicholas II and they married very soon afterwards. So any Romanovs descended from Tsar Nicholas II and Alix are also descended from Queen Victoria.
Have a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tsar_Nicholas_I… . It's quite startling – could you tell which is which if I hadn't said that the Tsar is on the left and King George V is on the right? They were cousins as their mothers were sisters – Nicholas's mother was Empress Maria Feodorovna, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark, and George's mother was Queen Alexandra of Denmark, wife of King Edward VII and Dagmar's sister. It's the Danish ancestry that makes them look so alike (quite apart from the beards!)
Add to that, BOTH of them were cousins of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany as Wilhelm's mother was Victoria, the Princess Royal, Queen Victoria's eldest child and wife of the German Emperor Frederick II.
Mabel B says
Because the Tsarina, The Empress Alexandria was Queen Victoria''s grand daughter. The Grand Duke Alexei and the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia were Queen Victoria's Great Grandchildren.
The Tsarina's Mother, Princess Alice was Queen Victoria's daughter, who married Louis IV, who was a German Duke.
The Tsarina was German.
Syntinen Laulu says
For centuries royalty have made a practice of marrying other royalty. English royalty were already marrying Russian royalty a thousand years ago – see the link. In fact, until the 20th century kings were *far* more likely to marry a princess from a far-distant country than a girl from their own.
Lili says
Queen Victoria had nine children and therefore many grandchildren. Her descendants married into most of the royal houses of Europe and also Russia.
The Empress Alexandra, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, was Victoria's granddaughter through Victoria's daughter Alice, who had married Prince Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. Born Princess Alix of Hesse, Alexandra married Nicholas in 1894 and became the mother of his four daughters and one son.
Alexandra spent much time in Britain before her marriage and was close to her grandmother Victoria, since her mother Alice had died in her childhood. She preferred to speak English at home and never learned to speak Russian as well as English and German. She also inherited the gene for hemophilia from her mother, who had inherited it from Queen Victoria. We'll never know whether she passed the gene on to her four daughters, but as most people know, her son was born with hemophilia.
Louise C says
The Tsarina Alexandra, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. So the children who were shot were Queen Victoria's great-grandchildren. Victoria did not want Alexandra to marry Nicholas, she thought Russia was a dangerous place. She was right.
Evelyn S says
The Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, Consort of Tsar Nicholas II, was the daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, a German principality, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had an exceedingly large family, and the Queen married off her children to almost all of the crowned heads of Europe.