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- Died
- Birth nameAlix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice von Hesse-Darmstadt
- Nicknames
- Sunny
- Alicky
- Aunt Baby
- Alix of Hess-Darmstadt was born on June 8, 1872 in Darmstadt, Germany. Her parents were the Grand Duke and Duchess of Darmstadt; her mother was also the daughter of Queen Victoria. When Alix was still very young, her sister Mary and then her mother died of diphtheria. Also, her brother Frederick (1870-1873) died from a fall from a window in his mother's room, complicated by hemophilia. She spent much of her time in England, staying with her grandmother and various aunts, uncles and cousins. When she was older she continued in the role of Landsmutter (Mother of the land) for her father.
At the wedding of her sister Elizabeth (Ella) to their cousin Seril of Russia, Alix met for the first time (and fell in love with) the Tsarivitch Nicholas. Even thought she was in love with him she did not want to marry him because she did not want to give up her Protestantism to be Russian Orthodox. About 4 or 5 years after they first met Alix's brother Ernest got married to their first cousin nicknamed Ducky. Since both were cousins of Nicholas as well he went to the wedding to see Alex. During the time that he was there he continually asked her to be his wife, and thanks to their love as well as their cousin Kaiser William II Alex finally consented to marry Nicholas.
Alix spent the first part of her engagement with her grandmother Queen Victoria in England telling her everything that had transpired leading to the engagement. The rest of the engagement did not go so smoothly though. Several months after the engagement Nicholas's father became ill at one of his palaces in Russia. Alix hearing this got there as soon as she could, but shortly after she got there Nicholas became Tsar Nicholas II. After this tragedy Alix did not want to wait to become a member of the family. Shortly after the death of her future father-in-law Alix became a member of the Russian Orthodox Faith taking the name Alexandra Fyodorovna. She and Nicholas wanted to marry where they were, but family told them that they should get married after the funeral of his father in Moscow. Thus the people of Russia got their first glimpse of their future Empress through death.
They were married on November 26, 1894, shortly after the death of his father, and before 1901 had four daughters named Olga (1895-1918) Tatiana (1897-1918), Maria (1899-1918) and Anastasia (1901-1918). In 1904 Alix gave birth to a son Alexis (known as Alexei) and sadly he had hemophilia, which was passed on to her a sister and brother from their mother Princess Alice and grandmother Queen Victoria.
In 1917 Nicholas was forced to abdicate the throne of Russia. The people who would have accepted it if he had abdicated in favor of his son, did not understand why he abdicated in favor of his brother. He only did this because he knew that his son's chances of survival were not good.
He and his family were then imprisoned in Siberia, and later moved to Ekaterinburg, where on the night of July 17, 1918 the Russian royal family was massacred. In the 1990s the burial sites were investigated, although the bodies of the Tsarivitch Alexei and one of his sisters (it is unclear which one) were missing. Using DNA from HRH Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh (Alix was his great-aunt) proved that four of the bodies belonged to the Tsarina and three of her daughters.- IMDb Mini Biography By: CRR
- SpouseTsar Nicholas II(November 26, 1894 - July 17, 1918) (her death, 5 children)
- Children
- ParentsAlexandrine von Hutten-Czapska
- RelativesPrince Albert(Grandparent)Duke of Kent and Strathearn Prince Edward(Great Grandparent)Duchess of Kent and Strathearn(Great Grandparent)Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Alfred(Aunt or Uncle)Helena of Schleswig-Holstein(Aunt or Uncle)Duchess of Argyll Princess Louise(Aunt or Uncle)Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught(Aunt or Uncle)Prince Leopold of Duke of Albany(Aunt or Uncle)Princess Henry of Battenberg(Aunt or Uncle)Queen Marie of Romania(Cousin)Princess Margaret of Connaught(Cousin)Princess Patricia of Connaught(Cousin)Princess Alice(Cousin)Queen Victoria(Grandparent)Victoria Mountbatten(Sibling)Elizabeth Feodorovna(Sibling)Princess Irene of Prussia(Sibling)Ernest Louis(Sibling)King George V(Cousin)Prince Albert Victor(Cousin)Princess Louise(Cousin)Dronning Maud(Cousin)Queen Victoria Eugenia(Cousin)Princess Alice of Battenberg(Niece or Nephew)King Edward VII(Aunt or Uncle)Princess Royal Victoria(Aunt or Uncle)Kaiser Wilhelm II(Cousin)Princess Charlotte of Prussia(Cousin)Prince Henry of Prussia(Cousin)Prince Waldemar of Prussia(Niece or Nephew)Prince Sigismund of Prussia(Niece or Nephew)Queen Louise(Niece or Nephew)Louis Mountbatten(Niece or Nephew)Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine(Niece or Nephew)Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse Georg Donatus(Niece or Nephew)Prince Of Hesse And By Rhine Louis(Niece or Nephew)Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine(Sibling)
- Had six siblings: Victoria Mountbatten (1863-1950), Elizabeth Feodorovna, (1864-1918), Princess Irene of Prussia (1866-1953), Ernest Louis (1868-1937), Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870 - 1873) and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (-1878).
- Was the daughter of Louis IV (1837 - 1892) and Grand Duchess Alice (1843 - 1878).
- Was mother of five children: Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895), Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897), Grand Duchess Maria (b. 1899), Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901) and Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov (b. 1904).
- First cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860 - 1919), Prince Henry of Prussia (1862-1929), Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866 - 1929), Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1868-1879), Sophia of Prussia (1870 - 1932), Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872 - 1954), Prince Albert Victor (1864-1892), King George V (1865-1936), Princess Louise (1867-1931), Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868 - 1935), Dronning Maud (1869-1938), Prince Alexander John of Wales (1871-1871), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874 - 1899), Queen Marie of Romania (1875-1938), Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia (1876-1936), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878 - 1942), Unnamed cousin (1879 - 1979), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884 - 1966), Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867 - 1900), Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869 - 1931).
- Second cousin of Crown Prince Hohenzollern (1882-1951), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1879 - 1945), Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889-1945), Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896-1978), Prince Henry of Prussia (1900-1904), George II of Greece (1890-1947), Alexander of Greece (1893 - 1920), Helen of Greece and Denmark (1896 - 1982), Paul of Greece (1901 - 1964), Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904 - 1974), Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (1913 - 2007), Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel (1893- 1916), Prince Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel (1894 - 1914), Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896 - 1980), Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (b. 1896 - 1989), Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901 - 1943).
- People forget that the greatest conqueror is he who conquers himself.
- ... A country where the man of God helps the emperor, never die. This is true.
- I don't mind whether a person is rich or poor. Once my friend, always my friend.
- Yes, I am more Russian than many others, and I will not sit still.
- I want to beat up almost all the ministers ...
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