WI: The Tsar had gone to Britain.

Although, in a complete reversal, if deposition is enough of a shock to the system to make the Romanovs do a complete 180, one must wonder what it would do for British allegiance in WW2. That says *if* they could rally the public against the Soviet Union. Britain's hatred of Germany would probably outweigh a local celebrity, but who knows? The masses have been persuaded to do stranger things...

They would probably live in London. Probably near the Windsors if not with the Windsors.
One of the Greek kings lived with them.
I doubt their "hatred" of Germany (which never existed in the first place) would be reversed because of the kings family (who would probably keep a low profile).
 
Would the Romanovs also attempt to set up a government-in-exile in England and have Nicky become the Russian version of Chiang Kai-shek?
 
It sets up some very interesting possibilities - one that comes to mind is that if Edward VIII or George VI marries one of the daughters and Alexei dies without issue, then the British monarch is also the claimant to the Russian throne.

Indeed, one other option might be for the Tsar and Tsarevich to stay in Russia, while the Tsarina and her daughters go to Britain for safety - as they're descendants of Victoria, perhaps the King wouldn't have objected?
 
It wouldn't be possible to claim the Russian throne through one of Nicholas II's daughters. The succession law was semi-Salic, and the effect of it was that females would inherit only when the male line was completely exhausted, and then it would be the female nearest in blood to the last male dynast. So if Tsesarevich Alexei had no children his heir would be his uncle Michael, if he had survived, and if not his father's cousin Kyril or his son Vladimir if Kyril was dead already, not any of his sisters. They would inherit only if Alexei was himself the last male dynast and had no children. Alexei could in any case have well lived to a reasonable age and had a son or sons. His first cousin Prince Waldemar of Prussia was also a haemophiliac and lived to be 56, and although he didn't happen to have children the condition didn't rule it out. Queen Victoria's fourth son Leopold, Duke of Albany, was another sufferer and fathered two children before he died aged 30.

While it is credible that the imperial family could have found refuge in Britain, the Kerensky government was willing to let them go and the British government to offer shelter, the plan failing in part due to the determined opposition of George V, I do not think that political activity by them would have been tolerated. Nicholas II had in any case abdicated, first for himself and then with rather questionable legality for his son, so there could only reasonably be a claim on behalf of the latter

I do not believe though that an imperial government-in-exile would have been allowed to form around him. As already pointed out, sooner or later it would become irrefutably clear that the Soviets had won and Britain would need to establish relations with them, hardly possible while hosting a rival government. I also think it very unlikely that any of the Grand Duchesses would have married anyone near to the British succession, that would have been a considerable no-no on numerous grounds.
 
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