Nick & Alex: Part 4

[Sara W]

Please discuss Part Four here.

[Manuel]

It is interesting how much has been discovered about why Nicholas and his family were not allowed to come to Britain. When Massie's book was written it was widely assumed the British Government of the day decided Nicholas should not be allowed to stay in England.

Apparently the government had no problem allowing Nicholas to enter the UK and was about to give permission to the Provisional Government in Saint Petersburg to invite Nicholas. Objections were raised by King George V himself. George V was concerned about the anti royalist statements being made in British newspapers. We know the King was very self conscience about his perceived patriotism; to the point where he changed his very German last name into something more British-Windsor.

King George felt the presence of his Romanov cousin in England would undermine his own position in the hearts of working class men and woman who had already sacrificed so much for Britain.
Subsequently, the government reversed its earlier position and withdrew the possibility of the Romanovs coming to England.