So I've consisted doing a novel about this, doing some research and I think I have the point of divergence for at least some of the Romanovs to live.
If the Romanov girls did not have measles during their house arrest after the February Revolution of 1917, there is a chance that they and possibly their mother and the Tsarevich could have gotten out to a friendly port and to England before George V rescinded his offer of asylum.
How do you think that could have gone in England? The girls were perhaps the Romanovs best hope for some sympathy from the British people, I can see them perhaps taken to the English court perhaps by their grandmother (though it will take time to get her out too) with their mother Alix perhaps at home wherever they were living and perhaps not entirely unhappy with being retired from public life.
Nicholas would perhaps eventually manage to leave Russia, its easier to perhaps get one man out alive than an entire family and their entourage with perhaps a little struggle from his cousin in getting him into England?
What are your thoughts on the history aspects of this? I am a long time lurker and I've searched for what's been posted on this but I don't think the girls not having measles has been explored. Seems such a sad thing to have happened to them by chance that can be changed for alternate history.
I do sort of want to have the Romanov girls as bright young things in England in the 20s, trying to find husbands in the English aristocracy. Then later perhaps Nicholas as a country gentleman at some house they put them in.