WI Nicholas II of Russia's family survived

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You'd have to get Dmitri and Kyril to agree since Tsar Paul's succession law barred women

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Grey Wolf

IIRC it only barred women in the absence of a legitimate and living male dynast but I forget, so this is a perfectly solvable problem ;)
 
IIRC it only barred women in the absence of a legitimate and living male dynast but I forget, so this is a perfectly solvable problem ;)

Not at all since it skips women to find the male heir - which was either Kyril (*who claimed it) or Dmitri, depending on interpretations

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Grey Wolf
 
There was no real arguement about the succession as it stood in 1917-
The court records included all members of the imperial family who were regarded as dynasts (having successional claim).

The male line was long at this period before you had to start on the agnatic (female line descendants).

THe arguements came in exile and relate to the divisions within the family that have lasted to this day.

However the majority of the imperial family in the 20s and 30 did accept Kyril as head of the family although most of the White movement preferred Grand Duke Nicholas (who was way down the line of succession) or Grand Duke Dimitri (who followed immediately after Kyril and his brothers)
 
If the Romanovs escape Russia in 1917 and live out their lives abroad, I could see them living quietly in some other place than Britain...perhaps the Tsar's mother's country of Denmark or maybe in Hesse. Nicholas would probably die sometime in the 1930s and Alexandra might survive into the late 1950s. She would probably die in obscurity largely forgotten by the world. After the death of her husband, she might take Russian Orthodox Holy Orders like her sister and spend the rest of her days as an Orthodox nun.

Alexei would probably die young...1920s or 1930s...not too likely he would produce an heir, though you never know. The hemophiliac son of Queen Victoria, Prince Leopold managed to father children. If more of the Royal Family survives than died in OTL, there might not be the right-of-succession squabbles we have today. It is entirely possible Nicholas might change the Romanov house laws in his old age to allow one of his daughters to succeed to the throne. At least one of them might end up as Queen of a Balkan country. At least one of them would probably marry a deposed German princeling. It would be ironic if Tatiana, Olga or Anastasia were among the East Prussian refugees who fled the Russian army in 1945. Perhaps one line of the Romanov girls might end up on Canada or the United States. By modern times, most of Nicholas and Alexandra's descendants would have broken the Pauline House Laws by marrying unsuitable spouses and the pretender squabbles would still happen but with different people.

But then again, I could be wrong.;)

What about hemophelia? I believe it has been determined that all of the Tsar's daughters were carriers.
 
Milord, can you direct me to a source for that information? I do not dispute it, just never have heard that it was proven. Did the DNA testing on the Ekaterinburg corpses bring this out?

Their aunt Olga Alexandrovna suspected they all were, but DNA testing shows that only one of the Grand Duchesses was a carrier, whether it was Anastasia or Maria is debated, but a report from an operation carried out on Maria for Tonsillitus strongly suggests that it was her.
 
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