[ SECRET POST #2897 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2897 ⌋

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Comments

[ceebeegee]

He *was* closely related to the BRF though, he was first cousins with George V through their mothers. In fact Nicky and George resembled each other very closely, VERY closely, they look like twins.



Nicky is on the left, I believe.

[(Anonymous)]

Both of them also closely resembled the Keiser, didn't they? I seem to recall a photograph where I couldn't tell the difference.

It has always struck me, history takes place on a world stage, country against country, but for this particular time period, it was family against family. George's cousin is Czar of Russia, another cousin is Keiser of Germany. I always wondered what they must have thought of that, privately.

[ceebeegee]

Willy looks like them (the beards, I imagine) but George and Nicky were true "twin cousins." And oh yes, WWI was on some level a huge family clusterfuck. Victoria was known as "the Grandmother of Europe"--Willy was the obnoxious bratty cousin everyone detested, George was the "butter doesn't melt in my mouth" perfect oldest son determined not to lose his place, cousins marrying cousins (Alix was related to everyone), the whole thing was messed up.

Although all this consanguinity at least enabled us to identify the bodies of the Imperial family when they were discovered in 1991, since they were able to test the DNA through the Duke of Edinburgh (his mother was closely related to Alix).