KING GEORGE AND THE MURDER OF TSAR NICHOLAS II -- 9/11/18
Today's selection -- from The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport. When the Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and their five children were brutally murdered in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in 1918, King George V of England, who was Nicholas's cousin, was in a quandary on the most superficial matters of funeral protocol. Complicating matters, the Bolsheviks would not even acknowledge they were dead. Further complicating matters emotionally was how little King George had done to help his cousin:
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| George V (right) and his physically similar cousin Nicholas II of Russia in German uniforms before the war. |
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