I think you are mistaken the word "lover" to the one of "formal boy friend" or simply you believes that "lover" is a person who likes a woman and that's all...No; in English, "lover" would mean the man had sex with her (sorry for the too harsh word, but my own English is poor and I don't know how to explain myself). In this sense of the word, Alix had no other "lover" than his own husband, Nicholas II. She was very near to be engaged to the Duke of Clarence, but at least, she wasn't. He was engaged to Mary of Teck, future wife of George V, even if he would have liked to marry Helena of France. In Greg KIng's book "The Last Empress", he also claims Alix was very close to be engaged to some nobleman that Queen Victoria wanted for a husband for her, but she refused to marry him and the Queen accepted her opinion.
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