From Russia with love
he ruling family of Russia at the beginning of the 1900s were the Romanovs, related to the British Royal Family as were the crowned heads of other European countries. Queen Victoria had been known as the grandmother of Europe, and soon after 1901, King Edward VII welcomed his nephew, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family to England. In 1909 they were at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, and other members of the Romanov family had a
