Tsar Nicholas II was the cousin of King George V, who was the Queen’s grandfather. George V’s mother was Alexandra Princess of Wales, the sister of Nicholas’ mother, Dagmar of Denmark.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill led tens of thousands of people in a procession in the early hours of July 17 to mark 100 years since Bolshevik revolutionaries murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his ...

Thousands of Russian religious pilgrims have walked in an overnight procession in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg to mark the 100th anniversary of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.