Alexandra had been offering assistance rather freely for some time — “don’t laugh at silly old wifey, but she has ‘trousers’ on,” as she put it in one of her letters — but now she cast aside all discretion. Not content merely to bombard her husband with advice and to influence appointments she began intervening directly in the governance of the country. In one of her letters to Nicholas she even boasted naively that she was the first Empress to receive ministers regularly since Catherine the Great — who usurped her husband’s throne and took his murderer into her bed. Alexandra’s mauve boudoir
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Failure in marriage led to failure as king
