THE guest speaker at the next Aireborough Civic Society talk is Peter Jennings. Peter will be giving an illustrated talk about the spa history of Harrogate at the event at Rawdon Community Library at ...

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A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

But within the families of kings and queens, royals who married their relatives were not unusual, even as recently as the late queen of England. Wait a minute: Were Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to | dHNfWVp3OFpJTHREUmc Trump’s tax and immigration bill clears hurdle after ...

He loved his wife, Alexandra, and she loved him ... The five children of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in a 1910 photo, eight years before war and revolution would sweep them all to a violent ...

Tsar Nicholas II, being the last reigning Emperor of Russia ... seems even more ill-disposed toward the Tsar's wife, Alexandra Feodorovna (born Princess Alix of Hesse), whose surviving letters to ...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, rejects the argument ... be dominated by his German-born wife, the Tsarina Alexandra, that led to the Tsar ...

The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas ... His wife, Alexandra, was a ...

When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad demise, and ... Notoriously, Nicholas was completely under the thumb of his German-born wife Alexandra, who was not just a credulous ...

This first episode reveals the obstacles Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra overcame during what was a rather unconventional start to their Royal relationship. But having survived the ...