Britain takes in the Romanovs

MatthewB

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Had Britain rescued the Tzar and his family would there have been the domestic repercussions that British government feared?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/roya...r-Nicholas-Romanov-family-Anastasia-communist
“Mr Aronson said: “George V realised that, to most of his subjects, the tsar was a bloodstained tyrant… that this was no time for a constitutional monarch, apprehensive of his own position, to be extending the hand of friendship to an autocrat – however closely related.” So the Russian imperial family was left to its fate.”

But, the Russians were Britain’s ally in the Great War after all, and should have, IMO, been given sanctuary. And what happens to the Romanovs through the 1920s and beyond?
 
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Honestly, I think the reaction that George V's advisors presented to taking in the Romanov's was slightly overblown. You probably would have some grumbling among the more leftward facets of British society, but I doubt there would have been a revolution. Granted, I think the Romanovs would have been sheltered in some castle in Scotland and heavily "advised" to keep a low profile.
 
Kaiser William was offered to come to Britain when Germany invaded the Netherlands

Interesting if the WWI monarchs of Britain, Russia, and Germany were in Britain at once
 

MatthewB

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Honestly, I think the reaction that George V's advisors presented to taking in the Romanov's was slightly overblown. You probably would have some grumbling among the more leftward facets of British society, but I doubt there would have been a revolution. Granted, I think the Romanovs would have been sheltered in some castle in Scotland and heavily "advised" to keep a low profile.
Security will be important, as Lenin and then Stalin would try to kill them.

Crown Prince Alexi won’t survive, so either Nicolas tries for more kids, or the girls take over.
 
I could see some moving to America and marrying into rich families that want the respectability that comes with royal connections.
 
Most likely, there would have been very limited domestic repercussions for merely granting the Romanovs asylum in Britain, as the average working-class Briton would have little reason to care about events in Russia, but it's likely that the exiled Czar would have become an annoyance to the Cabinet by insisting on more support for his restoration. After a few years, the Romanovs would have faded into another set of dispossessed aristocrats swanning about the Riviera and hawking their jewels at Sotheby's, and they would be largely forgotten until Anastasia's memoirs were optioned for a Netflix series.
 
Most likely, there would have been very limited domestic repercussions for merely granting the Romanovs asylum in Britain, as the average working-class Briton would have little reason to care about events in Russia, but it's likely that the exiled Czar would have become an annoyance to the Cabinet by insisting on more support for his restoration. After a few years, the Romanovs would have faded into another set of dispossessed aristocrats swanning about the Riviera and hawking their jewels at Sotheby's, and they would be largely forgotten until Anastasia's memoirs were optioned for a Netflix series.

Yeah, the average working-class Brit probably couldn't care less about the Romanovs one way or the other. He is more concerned about the price of a pint of ale at his local pub than about the Tsar. I would say the same thing is true if they move to the US. In that case, they probably marry one of the daughters to some upcoming millionaire or other.
 
I could see some moving to America and marrying into rich families that want the respectability that comes with royal connections.

True. a lot of English nobility did this OTL. It was so common it was the plot of a Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor".
 
Security will be important, as Lenin and then Stalin would try to kill them.

Crown Prince Alexi won’t survive, so either Nicolas tries for more kids, or the girls take over.

I am not sure about Stalin wanting to kill them. A live heir can always be the go to guy...later girl that the accused at a show trial was conspiring with against the Workers Paradise.
 
I am not sure about Stalin wanting to kill them. A live heir can always be the go to guy...later girl that the accused at a show trial was conspiring with against the Workers Paradise.

By the time Stalin took over, they would pose no actual security threat. The only reason for Stalin to go after them would be his own paranoia, and as you said, they're more politically useful alive than dead.
 
While your average British person might not care, those who have an inkling of knowledge of the situation would, and would prefer that Britain not take the Romanovs in. With no sanctuary, in that sense what you'd get would be a early-20th century version of what happened with the Shah of Iran in 1979.
 
By the time Stalin took over, they would pose no actual security threat. The only reason for Stalin to go after them would be his own paranoia, and as you said, they're more politically useful alive than dead.

Exactly. You can pin charges of "They're working with the Monarchist's to bring about a Romanov restoration!" to your political enemies for the next eighty years.
 
I could see some moving to America and marrying into rich families that want the respectability that comes with royal connections.

Most assuredly. I could see one of them, for example, marrying a du Pont and settling in one of the estates in the Brandywine Valley north and west of Wilmington, DE (Granogue; Winterthur; Nemours).
 
While your average British person might not care, those who have an inkling of knowledge of the situation would, and would prefer that Britain not take the Romanovs in. With no sanctuary, in that sense what you'd get would be a early-20th century version of what happened with the Shah of Iran in 1979.

I doubt it would matter. Not enough people would care enough to do much more than mutter about it for a few weeks and then go back to arguing who the best cricket team is.
 
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Honestly, I think the reaction that George V's advisors presented to taking in the Romanov's was slightly overblown. You probably would have some grumbling among the more leftward facets of British society, but I doubt there would have been a revolution. Granted, I think the Romanovs would have been sheltered in some castle in Scotland and heavily "advised" to keep a low profile.
Hell, the British Empire was humongous! They could have sent them to Canada, New Zealand, or Australia, or Jamaica, or British Honduras (Belize), Kenya, South Africa, send him to the Falklands, he knows "cold". For the sake of family, (George V's mother Queen Alexandra was very close to her sister The Empress Dowager of Russia), if they were worried about the British public having them as neighbors, then send them to one of the colonies that probably wouldn't have cared a lick!
 
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