Ms Hall said: "In 1839, the Tsar of Russia Nicholas I sent his eldest son Alexander II over to London to see the Queen - and they got very attached to each other. The sheer distrust between Queen Victoria and the Romanovs was believed for a long time to have stemmed from the Crimean War, which raged between 1853 to 1856. On the night of July 16-17, 1918, Nicholas II and his family were murdered by Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The ever-surprising nature of the relationship between the Romanovs and Victoria could be exemplified by one episode taking place when the young sovereign was still single, a year before her marriage with Prince Albert. In the spring of 1918, Russia was engaged in a civil war. In her book, Ms Hall described how Queen Victoria's relationship with the Romanovs was multi-faceted, a mix of affection for some members of the family, difficult diplomatic relationships and open hate for one Tsar.
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"And of course when that happened, she got very, very upset indeed." Alberts father and Victorias mother were brother and sister (as shown in the tree above), meaning Victoria and Albert were cousins. "But what she wasn't expecting was that members of her own family would go to marry members of the Romanov family. The True Story of the Romanov Familys Execution The Queen, Prince Philip, and all of their descendants are also related to the Romanovs through Queen Victoria, as she was Tsarina. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel) was born on 26 August 1819, just three months after Victoria.
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And really, this distrust ran all through her reign. 'Queen Victoria was an extremely powerful woman, but she was still a woman. Speaking about Victoria's view of the Romanovs, Ms Hall continued: "So there were two strands to Victoria's distrust. It is no secret that the Windsors are related to the Romanovs the last Imperial family of Russia. Queen Victoria and her family, including King Edward VII, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Frederick at a wedding in Coburg, Germany, 21 April 1894 - 1396x1800.