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One of these days - probably when I'm not working and I've got some time on my hands, I want to sit a write full timeline where the Romanovs are brought out of revolutionary Russia to England in the spring of 1917 and their impact on European and world history.

Until then, I'm interested in any ideas/thoughts.

Getting the Romanovs away was planned and seriously considered and could have been done in the spring of 1917. The Provisional Government would have been happy to see them out of the way, the Bolsheviks were in no position to do anything about it and there was a window of opportunity of about 10-12 days when George V and the British Government were supportive of the idea.

My thought was that the Romanovs would be smuggled out at night on a neutral (Swedish or Dutch) vessel and brought under secrecy to Aberdeen and thence to Balmoral. Clearly, once news of their "escape" was made public, there would be a backlash and given the anti-German feeling of the time, a deal of suspicion regarding the Tsarina who was German by birth.

I'm interested in the role the children could have played. I could imagine for example Prince George marrying one of the Russian princesses instead of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon or even Prince Edward avoiding the clutches of Wallis Simpson.

Perhaps Alexei, with his hemophilia B under control, could have emerged as a political figure in the 1930s acting as a focus for anti-Communist elements and perhaps even supporting the German invasion of 1941 as a "war of liberation".

There are any number of possibilities, aren't there ?
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