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Having Fun! / Re: Coloured Pictures XXXVII
« on: August 17, 2017, 10:02:21 PM »
Both lovely!
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About March-April of 1914
FOUND IT!
When the Tsarina’s sister Victoria–the Marchioness of Milford Haven–heard that the Tsar had left for Ekaterinburg, she wrote a letter to Arthur Balfour, then Foreign Secretary, asking if it would be possible for at least three of the Tsar’s children to be brought to England and placed in her custody. ‘I quite realize that the boy is a political asset which no party in Russia would allow to be taken out of its hands, but the girls (except perhaps the eldest) can be of no value or importance,’ she said. ‘I and my husband would willingly keep them here in quiet obscurity.’ She received a reply that the difficulties in the way of such a proposal were ‘almost insuperable.’
From Princess Marina, Her Life and Times, by Stella King.
I have no idea what they are doing, what that pole is for, how Maria hasn't learned how to fly yet laying on that swing(?) but one thing is for sure; the Imp has been defeated by the Amicable Angel. Anastasia has perished, crushed by her older sister Maria.
OTMA meant Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Alexei all along! I have cracked the Romanov case! Historians gather forth!
Quotethe Russians might get fed up with Putin one day and it looks like many of them are. Who knows they might have a revolution.
Ironic if this were to happen this year, the 100th Anniversary of the last revolution.
Hope things turn out better this time.