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| | Hesse-Cassel Royal Family |
 | | The title of Elector ceased to be used following the death of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I. Grand Duchess Alexandra died shortly after the death of her new born son Wilhelm. | | | See 4.5 - Landgrave Friedrich succeeded his second cousin Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I (1802-1875) as representative of the House of Hesse-Cassel. | | | See 11.53 - Landgrave Friedrich succeeded his second cousin Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (1802-1875) as representative of the House of Hesse-Cassel. |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Hesse_Cassel_Royal_Family.htm
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| | Marie, Alexandra and Society |
| | Alexandra would enter behind, on the arm of the senior grand duke. | | | This alone limited the appearances at social functions that Alexandra attended. | | | This time he stabbed her head with the diamond-studded hairpin meant to keep her crown in place. |
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http://www.koshka-the-cat.com/society.htm
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| | 1890 Civilian Index |
| | She was courted by Nicholas II in the years before he met Alexandra of Hesse, whom he would later marry. | | | The woman who could have been the Tsarina of the Russian Empire. |
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http://www.russianwarrior.com/1890_civ_index.htm
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| | Princess of Denmark Dagmar Marie |
| | Nicholas was torn between his family's constant meddling in affairs of state, and his wife constant prodding to act more decisively. | | | Nicholas, mortified by his son's suffering and blinded by his devotion to Alexandra, refused to heed the advice of his mother. | | | Like many other Romanovs, Maria-Feodorovna desperately tried to convince her son that Alexandra's involvement in affairs of state was eroding the monarchy's support. |
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http://worldroots.com/cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I13439@
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| | Grand Duke Nicholas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His father was the sixth child and third son born to Nicholas I of Russia and his Empress consort Charlotte of Prussia (1798 - 1860). | | | From 1905 to the outbreak of World War I, he was commander-in-chief of the St. | | | Nicholas was born to Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1831 - 1891) and Alexandra Friederike Wilhelmine von Oldenburg (1838 - 1900). |
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http://www.peekskill.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Grand_Duke_Nicholas
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| | Palaces & Residences of the Russian Imperial Family |
| | Alexandra Feodorovna bore four daughters: Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, and a son, Alexis. | | | Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was of German descent on her father's side and of English descent on the side of her mother, Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria. | | | To take part in the celebration, Maria Feodorovna's parents (King Christian of Denmark and Queen Louise, the daughter of the Margrave William of Hesse), her eldest sister Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII of Britain, her nieces Princesses Maud and Victoria came to Livadia. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/livadia.html
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| | Nicholas Ii |
| | This act led to a constant stream of resignations from the ministers; their posts were filled by the sycophants of Alexandra, who was completely dominated by Rasputin until his murder in 1916. | | | Discontent at home grew, the army tired of war, the food situation deteriorated, the government tottered, and in Mar., 1917, Nicholas was forced to abdicate (see Russian Revolution). | | | Alexander III gave his son little training in affairs of state, and Nicholas proved to be a charming but ineffective and easily influenced ruler. |
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http://www.question.com/link/Nichls2-Rus.html
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| | Darmstadt biography .ms |
| | Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany. | | | Its current look was established in the 18th century. | | | The other large square is the Marktplatz ("market square", see image) with the town hall; it was restored in 1996 to regain the look that it had prior to World War II. |
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http://darmstadt.biography.ms
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| | Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine |
| | However, in November 1878, the Grand Duke and all but one of the children, Princess Elizabeth, fell issue with diphtheria; Princess Marie died of the disease. | | | Prince Ernst Ludwig (25 November 1868-9 October 1937), succeeded his father as Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, 13 March 1892, forced to abdicate 9 November 1918; m. | | | This style was in effect in Great Britain, not Hesse. |
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http://www.portaljuice.com/princess_alice__grand_duchess_of_hesse_and_by_rhine.html
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| | Mathildenhöhe |
| | It is still used as a sub-office of the Justice of the Peace to perform wedding ceremonies today. | | | The Russian Chapel was built for Czar Nicholas II, married to Princess Alexandra of Hesse. | | | This art form not only influenced the traditional graphic and forming arts (i.e., painting, sculpting) but also architecture, interior design, furniture and other utensils. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kamikaze/jugend.htm
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| | Alexandra of Hesse |
| | Alexandra and Nicholas were married on November 26, 1894 at the Winter Palace in St. | | | Alexandra of Hesse, Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt (25 April 1872 - 16 / 17 July 1918) was born in Darmstadt, Germany. | | | Alexandra had always had a nervous disposition, following the diagnosis of her son with haemophilia, all her nervous energies were channelled towards him. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Alexandra_of_Hesse.html
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| | Tsarina Alexandra |
| | This resulted in her becoming an unpopular person in Russia and this intensified during the First World War. | | | Alexandra Fyodorovna, her husband and children, were executed on 16th July 1918. | | | Nicholas and his family were moved to the remote Siberian city of Ekaterinburg where he was held captive by a group of Bolsheviks. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSalexandra.htm
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| | Tsaritsa |
| | Several Tsaritzas were the rulers of Russia including Catherine I, Catherine the Great and Elizabeth I. Others who gained the title by marrying a Tsar were Elizabeth Alexejevna, Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse-Rhein), and Marie Romanova. | | | The last Tsaritza was Alexandra of Hesse who was married to Nicholas II of Russia. |
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http://www.bidprobe.com/en/wikipedia/t/ts/tsaritsa.html
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| | Rasputin, Grigori Efimovich |
| | The Tsaritsa converted to the Russian Orthodox religion upon her marriage, but the result was that there evolved two courts within the palace; her court, and the inner-court of ladies devoted to her mother-in-law. | | | The marriage of Nicholas II and Princess Alexandra of Hesse occurred shortly before the death of his father Alexander III. | | | Alexandra knew she had given the disease to her son, one of her uncles had suffered from it. |
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http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/r/Rasputin.html
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| | 22ND GENERATION |
| | Olga III of RUSSIA was born in 1896 in Russia - dtr of Tsar Nicholas II. | | | Alexandra of HESSE-DARMSTADT Tsarina of Russia was born on 6 Jun 1872 in Hesse - dtr of Louis IV - aka Alix or Alicky. | | | Alexandra of HESSE-DARMSTADT Tsarina of Russia and Tsar Nicholas II of RUSSIA had the following children: |
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http://home.att.net/~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d7767.htm
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| | The Last Tsar, a basic understanding for the Non-Russian - PRAVDA.Ru |
| | He was handed a Russia that was filled with turmoil, strife, and starvation far beyond what he could ever hope to comprehend for he was not close to his subjects and his own country. | | | Nicolas had met the young Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt of Austria years before. | | | But to Nicolas, she was his rock for she believed in the absolute rule of the monarchy. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/13668_Nicolas.html
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| | Alexandra -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Before taking the throne he was the most active member of the royal family, since Queen Victoria remained in seclusion after his father's death in 1861. | | | Her misrule while the emperor was commanding the Russian forces during World War I precipitated the collapse of the imperial government in March 1917. | | | Originally known as Lower Dunstan and Manuherikia, the settlement was named Alexandra South in 1863 to commemorate the marriage of the Danish princess Alexandra to Edward, prince of... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005624?tocId=9005624
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| | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| | From the ages of 14 to 19, Nietzsche attended a first-rate boarding school, Schulpforta, located not far from Naumburg, where he prepared for university studies. | | | They moved to nearby Naumburg an der Saale, where Nietzsche (called "Fritz" by his family) lived for the next eight years with his mother, Franziska (1826-1897), his paternal grandmother, Erdmuthe, his father's two sisters, Auguste and Rosalie, and his younger sister, Therese Elisabeth Alexandra (1846-1935). | | | Having been living only yards away from Röcken's church in the house reserved for the pastor and his family, the remaining Nietzsche family left their home soon after Karl Ludwig's death. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche
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| | Tsaritsa |
| | Others who gained the title by marrying a Tsar were Yelizaveta Alexeevna, Alexandra Fyodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse-Rhein), Marie Romanova and Eleonore, Princess Reuss-Köstritz, who became Tsaritsa of Bulgaria following her marriage to Tsar Ferdinand. | | | The last Russian Tsaritsa was Princess Alix of Hesse who was married to Nicholas II of Russia. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/T/Tsaritsa.htm
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| | This will be an account of the family of the Dukes of Brabant and Landgraves of Hesse (and including also the noble house of Percy in England). | | | The early generations of this family are in dispute, and differsnt versions of them have been posted on this board. | | | The Duchy of Lower Lorraine, after the death of the last Carolingian duke, was held by various local nobles (see, e.g., my postings on Luxemburg). |
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http://www.worldroots.com/brigitte/theroff/brabant.txt
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| | Nicholas II |
| | Alexandra, the grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, was a strong believer in the autocratic power of Tsardom and urged him to resist demands for political reform. | | | Ni cholas succeeded to the throne following his father's death from liver disease on 20th October, 1894. | | | Later that month he married the German princess, Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtsar.htm
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| | Alexandra: The Last Tsarina |
| | Alexandra is an individual portrayed in many other books as being stern and often times unapproachable. | | | But her son's hemophilia drove her to seek out a man - a man of God, she believed - who would prove to be one of the greatest players in the destruction of both her nation and her family: the man known as Rasputin, or "the debauched one." | | | This book provides the background information to explain her upbringing, her relationship with her family (inlcuding many tragedies) and her relationship with the Dowager as well as her childeren. |
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http://284688.onlinesportdiscount.com/3436373937302d312d30333132333032333858.html
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| | AlbertVictor |
| | Eddy was chrushed; he wrote to his mother: "I don't think she knows how much I love her or she could not be so cruel." By 1890, Eddy had recovered of Alix's rejection; he had met Princess Helene of Orleans, the daughter of the pretender to the French throne, Louis, Comte de Paris. | | | Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, eldest child of Bertie, the Prince of Wales (future Edward VII) and his wife Alexandra of Denmark, was born on January 8, 1864 at Frogmore House in Windsor and he was a seven months baby; he was called just Eddy by his family. | | | In 1888, the painter introduced Eddy to Annie Elizabeth Crook, a girl who worked in a tobacco shop at Cleveland Street. |
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http://www.geocities.com/jesusib/AlbertVictor.html
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| | 4Reference Alexandra of Hesse |
| | I'm also not sure whether the family was executed, murdered, or assassinated -- the political leadership of the time was still pretty fluid, and frankly, I'm fairly convinced that the soldiers responsible BELIEVED they were acting on government orders... | | | - But Alexandra (Alix) was from Hesse before marrying Tsar Nicholas. | | | I'd have used Alexandra of Russia -- I THOUGHT that's what we had decided was the standard... |
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http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Alexandra_of_Hesse.html
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| | Nicholas II of Russia - OrthodoxWiki |
| | Together with his wife, Alexandra Fyodoronova, formerly Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstad, and their children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey, they are recognized as Passion-bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church. | | | In 2000, after some 8 years of study, the council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church voted unanimously to recognize Nicholas, Alexandra and their five children as saints. | | | In February 1917, during the February Revolution, Nicholas reluctantly abdicated the throne, hoping that doing so might save the nation some violence. |
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http://orthodoxwiki.org/Nicholas_II_of_Russia
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| | Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The first, in 1889, was Princess Alix of Hesse (future Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia), who did not return his affection. | | | The second, in 1890, was Princess Hélène of Orléans, whom he also loved, but the engagement had to be cancelled when Hélène (a great-granddaughter of the last King of the French) declined to give up her Roman Catholic faith. | | | Three women were lined up as possible brides for the Prince. |
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http://www.bexley.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Prince_Albert_Victor,_Duke_of_Clarence
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| | Archive of Art Exhbits 2002-2003, Winchester Public Library, Massachusetts |
| | The artist members of the jury this year were Carolyn Latanision acting as Chair, Beatriz Grayson, Mary Hart, Donna Marder, Alexandra Richardson, and Gunther Winkler. | | | He is a member of the Cambridge Art Association and the Winchester Artists' Network and is associated with the Galant Gallery in Salem, MA. | | | Shown here left to right are Alexandra Richardson, Carolyn Latanision. |
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http://www.winpublib.org/archiveofartexhibits.htm
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| | Brabant 10 |
| | ELISABETH Alexandra Maria Charlotte Luise, *Copenhagen 13.6.1861, +Dessau 1.1.1955; m.Philippsruhe 26.5.1884 Pr Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau (*Dessau 18.7.1855, +Cannes 2.2.1886) | | | FRIEDRICH KARL Ludwig Konstantin, Landgrave of Hesse, head of the Electoral House of Hesse from 15.3.1925, *Schloß Panker, Holstein 1.5.1868, +Kassel 28.5.1940; m.Berlin 25.1.1893 Pss Margarethe of Prussia (*Neues Palais, nr Potsdam 22.4.1872, +Schönberg bei Kronberg, Taunus 22.1.1954) | | | PHILIPP, Landgrave of Hesse, became head of all the House of Hesse 30.5.1968, *Schloß Rumpenheim 6.11.1896, +Rome 25.10.1980; m.Racconigi 23.9.1925 Mafalda Pss of Savoy (*Rome 19.11.1902, +d.in Buchenwald concentration camp 28.8.1944) |
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http://genealogy.euweb.cz/brabant/brabant10.html
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| | European Royal History: Our Bookstore |
| | A biography of King George VI written by the man who could have been his son-in-law. | | | Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Grand Duchess of Russia, Victoria Melita ca a scandal by divorcing one first cousin to marry another. | | | The compelling story of Caspar Hauser, suspected to be the lost Hereditary Prince of Baden. |
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http://www.eurohistory.com/bookstore.htm
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| | Articles - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia |
| | Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (Maria Nikolaevna Romanova) (In Russian Великая Княжна Мария Николаевна), also known as Marie or Mashka (June 26, 1899 - July 17, 1918) was the third daughter of Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hesse. | | | I am glad to see she is only a human child." Maria and her younger sister, Anastasia were known in the household as the "Little Pair", being the younger sisters. | | | As a punishment for her surprising behavior, Alexandra suggested she be sent to bed; however Nicholas objected, stating, "I was always afraid of the wings growing. |
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http://www.gaple.com/articles/Grand_Duchess_Maria_Nikolaevna_of_Russia?mySession=676e0010bfe76d50a28ef9aef2d97642
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| | VDS-4 |
| | Another of Victoria’s grandchildren through which hemophilia would bring down a royal throne was Princess Alexandra of Hesse, who married Nicholas II of Russia. | | | She has no parents and I am her only grandparent and I feel I have a claim on her (Hibbert, 329)!” | | | In a letter to Alexandra’s older sister, Princess Louis of Battenberg, the Queen of England wrote, “My blood runs cold when I think of her so young most likely placed on that very unsafe throne. |
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http://www.curiouschapbooks.com/Catalog_of_Curious_Chapbooks/Victoria_s_Dark_Secrets/VDS-4/body_vds-4.html
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| | Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) |
| | Nicholas was King George V's cousin and Alexandra was Queen Victoria's granddaughter, so the casting of British actors Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman was a stroke of genius (and they are hardly "unknown" actors, at least in Britain). | | | Trivia: The role of Alexandra was first offered to Audrey Hepburn. | | | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067483
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| | Jewels of the Romanovs Costumes and Portraits - Alexandra Feodorovna |
| | Alix met the Russian Tsarevich Nicholas when she was only nine years old, and the two seemed to form an attachment immediately. | | | Modern copy by Vitaly Zhuravlev (born 1933) of a painting by Nikolai Bodarievsky (1850-1921), Circa 1900 of the Empress in the Portrait Hall of the Alexander Palace | | | Born Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was a favorite grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. |
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http://www.alexanderpalace.org/jewels/dress2.html
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| | Hesse Family Photo - Nicholas & Alexandra Exhibit Items |
| | Stamped in red ink on the back in Russian: "office of Her Majesty Empress Alexandra Feodorovna" and in black ink the date 1885. | | | Nicholas and Alexandra - The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia | | | Portrait of the Family of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse, 1885 |
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http://www.nicholasandalexandra.com/pichessefamily.html
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| | Alexandra de Hesse |
| | O povo começou a falar que Alexandra era amante de Rasputin mas ela desmentia tudo dizendo que era fiel a Nicolau (e era mesmo). | | | Quando seu filho Alexei nasceu, Alexandra ficou muito desesperada pois ele sofria de hemofilia e sua situação era muito ruim. | | | Alexandra é filha de Alice de Hesse, 1894, e é neta da rainha Vitória, da Inglaterra, casou-se com o czar Nicolau II Romanov. |
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http://www.tocatch.info/pt/Alexandra_de_Hesse.htm
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| | Grandchildren of Queen Victoria |
| | Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh (Great Britain) and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha ("Sandra") Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | | | Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh (Great Britain) and Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse, Grand Duchess Kirill of Russia ("Ducky") | | | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, Grand Duchess Sergei of Russia ("Ella") |
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http://www.angelfire.com/in3/theodore/royfacts/UK/qvd1.html
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