Amazing how Alexandra became Ms. I Love The Autocracy.
I mean her grandmother, Queen Victoria, whom she had always been close with, was a Constitutional Monarch. If Nicky and Alix had adopted such a system in Russia, I strongly believe they might have not had the horrible ending that they had.
We'll never know, of course, but that is just how I feel.
Queen Victoria was never really all that meek a monarch, though, and she had to learn to bite her tongue.
By contrast, both Franz Joseph and Wilhelm II were actually constitutional monarchs too, or close to it, though both retained a right to suspend parliament and retreat to some form of personal rule if they wished (in FJ's case, this right was ultimately vested in his prime minister rather than himself). It was the war rather than system of government which cost both these monarchs their power, just like Nicholas and Alexandra. And it was the war which taught George V to take a back seat, I feel. In the crisis over the House of Lords and the Peoples' Budget just before the war, he was inclined to do the opposite.
I think Alexandra found a "meaning" in autocracy by identifying it closely with her husband and his church (as the church indeed encouraged her to do). By doing so, she could "forgive" herself for abandoning the Protestantism of her childhood by seeing that she had a much greater mission in marrying Nicholas and helping him on his way through life. It's easy to become intoxicated with the Orthodox Church, the scenery of Russia, and swallow national myths whole.