1. When George was still in the status of a prince, he became an ardent philatelist. For his collection, for a long time he could not acquire one of the rarest stamps in the world - "Blue Mauritius". In 1904, the Prince of Wales succeeded. At the auction in Brussels, Georg arrived incognito and took with him a clean (unused) copy of "Blue Mauritius" for £1,400, which is equivalent to today's $200,000, although today this stamp is valued at $15,000,000.
2. George and his wife Victoria Mary of Teck were crowned at Westminster on May 22, 1911. At the same time, the newly-made wife of the king began to be called Queen Mary, despite the fact that her first name was Victoria. This name was not given to her. In memory of George's late grandmother, Queen Victoria, it was decided that henceforth no queen of England would bear that name.
3. Once, enraged by something, George V slammed his fist on the dining table during dinner. After that, he cursed loudly and issued a decree that the forks should be placed on the table with the prongs down. This is how this well-known rule of table etiquette appeared.
4. Cousins - George V and Nicholas II - were very similar. About the case associated with this feature in his book "Nicholas and Alexandra" wrote the American Robert Macy in the late 1960s. So, in July 1893, at the wedding of the Duke of York, the future George V, and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, Russia and the House of Romanov were represented by the Heir Tsarevich and Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich, the future Nicholas II. The future Russian Emperor spoke English so well that, given the outward resemblance to his brother, many guests mistook him for the Duke of York and congratulated him on his legal marriage. Meanwhile, the groom himself, who was mistaken for Nikolai, was approached at the same time with questions about the purpose of his visit to London and future plans.
5. It is known that after the overthrow and death of Nicholas II, George V acquired the treasures of the Russian Imperial House practically for nothing, and simply appropriated some of them.
6. The most beautifully made dollhouse in the world was presented to his wife Queen Mary by George V. The house was first shown to the public in 1924, when the British Imperial Exhibition was held in London. Now it is stored in Windsor. The house was created under the guidance of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is made on a scale of one to twelve. It has more than 40 rooms, electric lighting, two elevators, cold and hot water, a miniature vacuum cleaner and a coal-burning stove. Outside, the house is a mansion in the classical tradition. There are gardens with metallic flowers. The house also has a library with specially created paintings. In the dining room there is a table 50 centimeters long. The largest room is the hall, in which there is a throne and a huge piano.
7. On December 25, 1934, King George V of Great Britain made his first New Year's address to the citizens of his country. Interestingly, the text of the royal address was written by famous writer Rudyard Kipling.
Born June 3, 1865 at Marlborough House (London), the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra), was christened George Frideric Ernst Albert. His mother is the sister of Maria Feodorovna - the wife of the Russian Tsar Alexander III and the mother of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. George V was very outwardly similar to his cousin Nicholas II. German Emperor Wilhelm II was also a cousin of George V.
Not assuming that he could take the throne, he received a naval education and served in the navy. In 1892, the untimely death of the Duke's elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, made him second in the line of succession to the throne. Queen Victoria awarded her grandson in May 1892 the title of Duke of York. In July 1893 he married Princess Victoria Maria of Teck of Baden-Württemberg, who had previously been engaged to his elder brother. After the death of his grandmother in January 1901, as heir to the throne, George received the duchies of Cornwall in England and Rothesay in Scotland, and on November 9, 1901 he became Prince of Wales after the coronation of his father Edward VII. After Edward's death on May 6, 1910, George was proclaimed the new king and crowned on June 22, 1911 at Westminster Abbey.
In England, the new king faced two difficult political situations. The House of Lords rejected the budget proposed by the Commons; the latter, in response, put forward a Bill of Parliament, significantly limiting the power of the House of Lords. At the request of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, the King was forced to promote the passage of a Bill of Parliament. The second arose because of the proposal to introduce home rule (self-government) in Ireland. Before the threat of an uprising, the king convened representatives of all parties in 1914, but a decision on this issue was never taken; Anglo-Irish treaty was signed only in 1921.
During World War I, George V renounced all personal and family German titles and changed the name of the royal house from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
In 1923-1929, due to the economic crisis in Great Britain, there were frequent changes of cabinets. The absence in 1924 of a clear majority among the three rival parties forced the king to replace the Conservative Prime Minister Baldwin with Labor Macdonald.
During the miners' strike and the general strike of 1926, the king used every opportunity to reconcile the parties. During the economic crisis in 1931, he accelerated the protracted negotiations of party leaders and proposed the candidacy of Macdonald as head of the coalition government.
Under him, the Statute of Westminster was adopted in 1931, which established the legal status of the dominions and their relationship with Great Britain: he created the British Commonwealth, and George also became the king of all dominions.
Tsar Nicholas II, George V and King Albert I of Belgium.1914. Pay attention to the external similarity of Nicholas II and George
Awards
Military ranks
British Field Marshal and Admiral of the Fleet (6 May 1910), Prussian Field Marshal General (16 May 1911), Honorary Danish Admiral (25 May 1910), Russian Admiral (1910), German Admiral (27 January 1901), Swedish Admiral , Spanish Captain General, Honorary Siamese General, Marshal of Japan (October 28, 1918).
Children
Children of George V and Mary of Teck:
Edward VIII (23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), Duke of Windsor, renounced his rights to the throne in connection with a morganatic marriage to Wallis Simpson;
George VI (December 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952), King of Great Britain (1936-1952), married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923;
Mary (25 April 1897 – 28 May 1965), Princess Crown Princess, married Henry Lesceles, 6th Earl of Hearwood;
Henry (31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974), Duke of Gloucester, was married to Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott;
Georg (20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942), Duke of Kent, was married to Marina, Princess of Greece and Denmark;
Nicholas II had a striking resemblance to his cousin, the British King George V.
Nicholas II "Cousin Nicky" and George V "Cousin Georgie"
Nicholas II and George V
King George, 1893
Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, visits England for the wedding of King George V and Queen Mary. 1893
The fact is that their mothers are sisters:
- Princess Dagmar - after marriage, Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III and mother of Nicholas II
- Princess Alexandra of Denmark - wife of King Edward VII and mother of George V.
They were daughters of Christian IX of Denmark.
Ilya Savich Galkin
Emperor Nicholas II in a white uniform with epaulettes.
1896
Luke Fildes
George V when Prince of Wales, painting by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes
1892
Empress Maria Feodorovna with her sister Alexandra of Wales.
From 1842 Christian was married to Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817-1898), niece of King Christian VIII. The couple had six children:
Frederik (1843-1912), King Frederik VIII of Denmark from 1906 to 1912;
Alexandra (1844-1925), married to King Edward VII of Great Britain;
George (1845-1913), King George I of Greece from 1863 to 1913;
Dagmara (1847-1928), married to the Russian Emperor Alexander III;
Tyra (1853-1933), married to Prince Ernst August II of Hanover;
Valdemar (1858-1939), was married to Marie d'Orléans (1865-1909).
King Christian was in close family ties with the royal houses of Europe. He was the father of two kings - his successor Frederick VIII and King George I of Greece, Queen Alexandra of Britain, wife of Edward VII, and Russian empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III.
Christian was thus the grandfather of Nicholas II, who called him in his diary Apapaʹ ("Grandfather", a French childish word). Among other grandchildren of Christian - Constantine I of Greece, George V of Great Britain, Haakon VII of Norway.
Christian and Louise were called "father-in-law" and "mother-in-law of Europe".
Now most of the monarchs of Europe are direct descendants of Christian IX.
Nicholas II, King George V of Great Britain, King Albert I of Belgium (left to right). 1914.
The last Russian autocrat Emperor Nicholas II and the British monarch George V, being cousins (in their private correspondence they addressed each other only as "Cousin Nicky" and "Cousin Georgie"), were extremely similar in appearance.
Solomon Joseph Solomon
King George V.
National Portrait Gallery 1914
American Robert Macy in the famous bestseller of the late 1960s. "Nikolai and Alexandra" gives a very curious episode, once again testifying to the external similarity of the two brothers.
In July 1893, at the wedding of the future George V (at that time he was the Duke of York) and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, Russia and the House of Romanov were represented by the Heir Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich, i.e. the future Nicholas II. The latter’s English was so good and his outward resemblance to the groom so striking that many guests, mistaking him for the Duke of York, congratulated him on his legal marriage, and some official asked him, as the groom, not to be late for the wedding ceremony scheduled for tomorrow. And George himself, who was mistakenly taken for Nicholas, at the same time was approached with questions about the purpose of his visit to London and future plans.
Henrich Matveevich Manizer
Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II.
1896.
But their resemblance was only superficial. On the one hand, the straightforward, trusting Nikolai, who always came to the aid of his cousin in personal and public affairs. On the other hand, Georg, who betrayed him.
E. K. Lipgart. Portrait of Nicholas II. 1914
As a result of World War I, the February Revolution took place in Russia, and George's cousin, Nicholas II, was forced to sign an abdication. In return, he was promised the opportunity to freely travel to England with the whole family.
When Nicholas II abdicated and was arrested with his family by the Provisional Government, he could save the royal family by giving them permission to enter England. If you wanted to. But he didn't want to. Apparently, realizing that he was dooming his brother to death with the help of the English ambassador to Russia, George Buchanan, who later admitted that pressure was put on him.
Alexander Kerensky honestly tried to fulfill his promise. He twice appealed to the English ambassador Buchanan with a request to give the royal family asylum in England and send an English battleship to meet him. To which Buchanan replied that he would not distract such a trifling request from the sovereign, because his country, in such difficult conditions, was not up to some kind of Russian tsar.
Already retired, Buchanan admitted that he was under pressure. Georg simply got cold feet, or did not want to have Russian empire as a competitor, and ensured that it would never be resurrected.
Lance Calkin
King George V
National Portrait Gallery circa 1914
It is curious that the British government destroyed all documents and telegrams containing a categorical refusal to allow the royal family to enter England. And if it were not for the memories of the British embassy staff, the British would still make a surprised look.
Ilya Efimovich Repin Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. 1895
George V
Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II.
Photo of A. A. Pasetti of Tsar Nicholas II, at the age of 30, in St. Petersburg, 1898.
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov
Portrait of Nicholas II. 1900
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
And Makovsky. 1903
Portrait of Nicholas II
Portrait of Nicholas II. 1894
George Becker. Portrait of Nicholas II. around 1900
King George V
1911
King George, 1893
Samuel Luke Fields (1843-1927) - George V (1865-1936) - 9th King of the British Empire
in the coronation of clothes. 1911
Series of messages "
And doomed the royal family to martyrdom
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Nicholas II with his wife, children and relatives was shot on the night of July 17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg.
The mystery of history: why, after abdicating the throne in March 1917, the last Russian tsar remained in Russia, and did not go abroad with his family. After all, there was a chance for salvation.
“As for the evacuation of the royal family, we decided to send them through Murmansk to London,” the head of the Provisional Government A.F. Kerensky later claimed. - In March 1917, they received the consent of the British government, but in July, when everything was ready for the train to Murmansk and Foreign Minister Tereshchenko sent a telegram to London asking him to send a ship to meet the royal family, the British ambassador received a clear answer from Prime Minister Lloyd George : The British government, unfortunately, cannot accept the royal family as guests during the war.
Therefore, instead of the planned Murmansk, the Provisional Government was forced to send the Family to Tobolsk. Since the revolutionary movement intensified in St. Petersburg, anarchy.
Evacuation deep into Russia did not save Nicholas II. The Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government. And they destroyed the Family in the basement of the Ipatiev House.
COUSINS
Kerensky did not dissemble, he did not whitewash himself retroactively, - says the historian of the special services, writer Gennady SOKOLOV. - Declassified documents fully confirm his words.
England would indeed be the best refuge for the royal family in a Europe engulfed in world war. Russia was an ally of the British in the fight against Germany. In addition to the allied duty, Petersburg and London were connected by close family ties of rulers. Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna were cousins of King George V.
- That's even how?!
I explain. The mother of George V, Queen Alexandra is the sister of the august mother of Tsar Nicholas II, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. Native aunt of the last Russian Tsar.
The father of George V, King Edward VII, is the brother of the mother of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Uncle of the wife of the last Russian Tsar.
Cousins (cousins) Nicholas II and George V even outwardly were very similar! They were close friends, calling each other "old Nicky", "dear Georgie".
“Yes, my dearest Nicky, I hope that we will always continue our friendship with you; you know, I am unchanged, and I have always loved you so much ... In my thoughts I am constantly with you. God bless you, my dear old Nicky, and remember that you can always count on me as your friend. Forever your devoted friend, Georgie."
So wrote George V to Nicholas II.
Having lost the throne in the spring of the 17th, the Romanov couple hoped for a temporary refuge in England with "dear Georgie." It was dangerous for them to stay in Russia. Calls were openly heard here to kill the wife of the former sovereign as a "German spy." And at the same time, "Nikolai the Bloody."
On March 22, 1917, the British Cabinet decided to grant "the Emperor and Empress asylum in England while the war is going on." Ambassador George Buchanan reported this to the Provisional Government in Petrograd.
However, a week later, on March 30, "Georgie's devoted friend" made an attempt to disavow the government's invitation to his Russian cousin. “Because of the danger of the flight and for reasons of expediency of the stay of the imperial family in this country ...” About which the personal secretary of the king, Lord Steimformham, informed the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On April 2, England's foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, tried to explain to the king that it was not good to back down: "Your Majesty's ministers ... do not think that, if the situation does not change, it is possible to withdraw their invitation that was sent, and they believe that the king agrees to adhere to the previous decision, which was sent by the Council of Ministers of His Majesty.
"And what about 'dear Georgie'?"
On the morning of 6 April, George Steimformham's secretary replied to Balfour: "The King wished me to ask you whether, after consulting the Prime Minister, Sir George Buchanan should Russian government to accept some other plan for the future residence of Their Imperial Majesties."
On the evening of the same day, George V himself wrote to the Foreign Minister:
"Instruct Ambassador Buchanan to tell Milyukov (Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government - Ed.) that we must withdraw our consent to the proposal of the Russian government."
In the postscript to this letter, George emphasized that not the king, but the government invited the royal family.
The king's political intrigue worked.
In May 1917, the British Foreign Office, through its Ambassador Buchanan, conveyed to the new Russian Foreign Minister M. I. Tereshchenko that "The British Government cannot advise His Majesty to extend hospitality to people whose sympathies for Germany are more than well known."
George got his way. Left my cousin to fend for himself. In fact, under the bullets of the Bolsheviks.
SAVE ENEMIES
He threw it with the wrong hands. It's like the government decided that. Maybe, English king was so weak that he really could not help his Russian relative, so he got out? They have a constitutional monarchy there.
The facts say otherwise. George V several times gave protection to the rulers, much more distant from him than the Russian tsar - cousin. So, he agreed to a secret Allied plan to save the Romanian royal family when she was threatened with capture during the offensive of the German armies in the winter of 1917.
In 1922, another cousin of George V, Prince Andrew of Greece, son of the deposed King Constantine of Greece, faced death at the hands of revolutionaries. The English cruiser Calypso was hastily sent for him. At the same time they saved the Greek Prince Philip. The husband of the current queen of England, the Duke of Edinburgh, was then in his second year ...
In the end, George V sent the battleship Marlborough to the Black Sea in 1919 to take his aunt, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (mother of Nicholas II) out of the Crimea. She, along with the Grand Dukes and their families, was taken to the English naval base in Malta. She then moved to her native Denmark, where she died in peace in 1928. George V's personal protection extended even to rulers who were his enemies during the war. In 1919, after the overthrow of the monarchy in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Karl and his family could have died at the hands of deserters. By order of George V, an experienced British intelligence officer-bodyguard was sent to Charles. He helped the former crowned persons to leave Austria.
So "Georgie" could easily save and " dear Nicky". Moreover, Nicholas II was an ally in the First World War, and even a field marshal of the royal British army. The baton was handed to him at Headquarters in February 1916 by General Paget and Lord Pembroke. And if so, then George V, all the more, had to make every effort to save not only his august relative, but also the man who had in English army the highest military rank. Should have, but didn't. Although the Provisional Government, let me remind you, did not prevent the departure of the royal family, on the contrary, it was ready to take it to Murmansk and put it on an English ship.
However, "Forever Faithful Friend Georgie" chose to betray his Russian cousin.
- Why, Gennady Evgenievich?
Historians say, they say, "the king thought a lot about the proposal of the government to invite Emperor Nicholas and his family to come to England." After much hesitation, he still did not dare to take his beloved cousin and his family out of Russia. He was afraid, they say, of public opinion, protests from the workers and trade unions, who then sympathized with the Bolsheviks. The stay of the king in England could compromise the position of the king and queen. And for the sake of preserving the crown, he, reluctantly, sacrificed a relative.
But it turns out that George V from the very beginning was against the idea of granting asylum to Nicholas II. About this, in particular, his secretary wrote to the English ambassador in Paris, Lord Berthier: "It was the firm conviction of the king, who never wanted this."
There was another option to arrange for the Romanovs in France. On April 22, Lord Berthier, already knowing the attitude of the king to the royal family, responded to the request of the Deputy Foreign Minister of England Charles Harding: “My dear Charlie, I don’t think that the ex-emperor in France would have been welcomed with joy. The Empress is German not only by birth, but also by her upbringing. She did everything she could to conclude a peace treaty with Germany. She is called a criminal and a lunatic. And the former emperor, since he obeyed her instructions due to his weakness, is also considered a criminal.
- It turns out that the British closed the topic of the emigration of Nicholas II to France, without even discussing it with Paris?
It turns out so. Although the horror story about the Empress - a "German spy" was distributed by the British intelligence residency in Petrograd back in 1916. Preparing the operation "Dark Force" to eliminate Grigory Rasputin, close to the Empress herself. The British were afraid that Rasputin would mediate a separate peace between Russia and Germany. Without Russian support, Britain would clearly have lost the war.
George V really found himself then in a difficult political situation. The Russian emperor was unpopular in Britain, especially in left-wing circles. Propaganda turned him into "Nicholas the Bloody", a despot and tyrant who repressed political opponents. Public opinion could be against his political asylum in foggy Albion.
But still, the main reason for the betrayal of the "faithful Georgie" was different.
DYNASTY CHANGES NAME
- What happened that day?
Exactly one hundred years ago, King George V officially changed the name of the ruling dynasty from the German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Named after the castle, the residence of the British monarchs.
A very patriotic move! But clearly too late. It was necessary to break away from the German royal roots back in 1914, when the war with Germany began.
Apparently he was waiting. As is the USA. In April 17th, America entered the First World War on the side of the Entente (the military alliance of England, Russia, France). The outcome of the war became clear. It was then that the king changed the name of the dynasty. Declaring male descendants of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as members of the House of Windsor.
The princes and princesses of the new House of Windsor, who had previously been required to marry exclusively with the scions of German dynasties, were advised to turn their attention to British brides and grooms. The day the decree was issued, July 17, the king called in his diary "historic". The German monarchy became the "British royal family".
By changing his royal surname, George V distanced himself from his august relatives. First of all - from Nicholas II. That's why he didn't let him go to England.
And exactly one year later, on the first birthday of the House of Windsor, the royal family was shot in Yekaterinburg.
- A mystical coincidence!
I'll say more! Tortured in the basement of the Ipatiev House, the heir to the Russian throne, Tsarevich Alexei, was the great-grandson of the legendary English Queen Victoria. Through her line, the boy received the dangerous disease hemophilia, for the treatment of which Grigory Rasputin was brought close to the court.
- Even the great-grandson of the founder of the dynasty was donated by the Windsors! I'm not talking about his sisters.
End justifies the means. Let me remind you that in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, 5 world empires grappled with each other: Austro-Hungarian, British, German, Ottoman, Russian. And when the war ended, only one remained - the British. With a new dynasty - Windsor. Founded by George V. For the sake of such a triumph, you can sacrifice relatives. However, let's not blame everything on the king. Behind the Windsor dynasty were large financial capital and intelligence agencies. Their priority task, both then and now, is the weakening of Russia, which has long been Britain's main geopolitical rival and competitor in the world.
For this, they arranged the liquidation of the Russian monarchy and empire. Even if George V wanted to save his Russian cousin, he would not be allowed to do so.
In any case, the royal family was doomed.
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In 1871, the second son, named George, was born in the family of the Russian Emperor Alexander 3. Unlike his older brother Nikolai, who was born three years earlier, this boy grew up as a strong and healthy child.
Nikolai on the right (sitting), George in shorts
Georgy, as the younger one, is shorter
Nikolai and George in childhood
In 1894, Alexander 3 died, Nicholas 2 ascended the throne, and George became Tsarevich, due to the absence of his own son at that time from the young emperor. George was perfect English language and prepared himself for the profession of a military sailor, as befits the youngest royal son, until he fell ill with tuberculosis, completely unexpectedly and to great grief all family.
His mother, born Danish princess Dagmar, did not find anything better than to send her son, half-German and half-Dane, to be treated at a Russian resort, where the best Russian doctors used the Tsarevich. There he lived for many years, occasionally getting out on foreign trips. Giorgi reportedly got worse when he left the Caucasus. Traveling abroad was, therefore, categorically contraindicated for him.
Not capable of military service, George spent his time in the Caucasus and almost did not appear at court. In the same place, far from the capital, he quietly died in 1899 from tuberculosis, forgotten by everyone except his relatives. This tragic event was reported in the government newspaper.
Somewhat earlier, in England, in 1892, the potential heir to the throne, Albert Victor, the grandson of Queen Victoria, suddenly died of influenza. To be sure, the untimely death of the 28-year-old prince shook the foundations of the British throne. The threat of the end of the dynasty loomed over the royal house. Luckily, there was someone to pick up the baton. Next in line to the throne after Edward (the elderly son of the reigning queen) is a young man named George, a military sailor by vocation. Incidentally, the cousin of Nicholas 2 (their mothers were sisters).
George the Fifth (sitting) and Nicholas II
Georg and Nikolai are twins,but not brothers
The kinship of mothers explains the amazing resemblance between representatives of different monarchical dynasties - Nicholas and George. The similarity, which is so often observed among siblings, amazed contemporaries.
In 1901, Queen Victoria dies, and in 1910, Edward 7, who succeeded her. George 5 becomes the new king.
The first decade of George's reign was marked by the strengthening of Anglo-Russian relations, initiated by his father Edward. Started in 1914 World War this alliance is further strengthened. England and Russia, for the first time in a hundred years, fought side by side against a common mortal enemy, militarist Germany and her allies. The great European war became almost a family affair of two monarchs-relatives, a Russian and an Englishman, very similar to each other. The victory was predetermined.
Late Georg and Nikolai. Both were clearly made according to the same patterns.
But in 1917 in Russia, by intrigues German agents There was a revolution, Tsar Nicholas hastened to abdicate the throne. His (cousin) brother George, worried about the course of events, sent an invitation for the royal family to settle in England, which the former tsar declined, intending to remain in Russia and live a private life.
After the beginning of the Red Terror and the death of many members of the royal family, including the king himself, George took more drastic measures. In 1919, the English battleship Marlboro was sent to the Black Sea to rescue the surviving Romanovs, first of all, the mother of Nicholas 2, Maria Feodorovna. The former, as we already know, was George's own aunt, who was so similar to her late son George.
The dispatch of the ship was a bold move, which the parliamentary opposition considered a gamble. The Black Sea had been heavily mined since 1914, and the government of England opposed the sending of a warship. However, the ship was sent away and the Romanovs were saved.
It is alleged that the initiative to send the ship came solely from the Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill, who almost immediately resigned. But are there other reasons behind this that we don't know about?
Perhaps the will of one person interfered here - the English King George 5, one of the few who turned Anglo-Russian politics in a different direction? What motivated them in this case, if not simple decency?
In subsequent posts I will try to consider the issue of similarities between Geogius and George in more detail. Stay tuned! ;)
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