Czar Nicholas II was a cousin of Kaiser Bill and King George on his mother’s side, through the Danes, and a second cousin through the Windsors.Was always amazed by this photo of the cousins.
The one in white with the rag mop hanger is the Tsar.
Yes, dead ringers. Their mothers, the Danish princesses, were also extraordinarily similar. This book is very informative and a real page-turner, although of course we know how it turns out.
