King George V appeared to regret not helping his cousin Tsar Nicholas II and his family escape Russia and their eventual death. When he learned of the death of the Romanovs and their five children ...

George V favoured his second son Albert 'Bertie' and Albert's daughter Elizabeth 'Lilibet', later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, respectively. He told a courtier: 'I pray to God that my ...

Did King George V really abandon the Romanovs to ... not blue-and-yellow like the parrot on the TV show. George V and Nicholas II really were cousins — first cousins, in fact.

Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were first cousins. In 1918, Ipatiev House was turned into a fortified prison for ex-Tsar Nicholas II and his family. As the ill-fated ...

Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather, King George V, had shepherded Britain through World War I during his reign from 1910 to 1936. But as the king grew older, ...

King Charles's great ... eldest surviving child of George V and Mary. The wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Lady Alice was a direct descendant of Charles II through his illegitimate ...

The new images, captured by British photographer Hugo Burnand, show the royal couple in the Blue Drawing Room in Buckingham Palace Nicholas ... her husband, King George V, in 1911.

The King sits on one of two 1902 throne chairs which were made for the future King George V and Queen Mary for use ... Lord Oliver Cholmondeley and Nicholas Barclay are on the far left of the ...

“Royal weddings and funerals have taken place here, most recently The Committal Service for Queen Elizabeth II in September ... his great-grandfather King George V, who delivered the first ...

He is sitting on one of a pair of throne chairs that were made for the future King George V and Queen Mary for use ... Queen Elizabeth II, died at the age of 96. She was the longest-reigning ...