Martyrdom, Sainthood. Reburial and Commemoration of IF

[bluetoria]

Does anyone please have any the full list of royalties & other dignitaries who attended the burial of the IF in 1998. Also - since I cannot find any - does anyone have any links to web sites or could anyone please post details of the way in which the service was carried out & any more pictures please?  

[Michelle]

I'm sorry I don't, but I just have to say that it's so sad to see their coffins there.

[ferngully]

i think its on this site, look in the main menu
selina              xxxxxxxxxx

[Teddy]

Only prince Michael, Duke of Kent attended the re-burial of the IF.

[bluetoria]

Thanks Selina, I did look but maybe I missed it!  

Teddy, is that right? Out of all the Houses (or remnants of Houses!) of Europe, Prince Michael was the only royalty present at so momentous an event!?

[lexi4]

I didn't realize that Prince Michael was the only one to attend. That's amazing. I wonder why? Any ideas?

[RealAnastasia]

I didn't see this one before. Very sad...I saw the burial of the IF in the TV, and I must said I cryed. You are right, Michelle. It's so sad...Of course, I taped all the ceremony.  

RealAnastasia.

[Teddy]

Yes bluetoria, 4 what I know is that prince Michael the only was to attend of all the Royal Houses.

Maybe there was a sort of protocol. Its custom that if you get an invitation of the host country you as King/Queen or one of the childeren go, to a burial/funeral, wedding, etc.

I think that Poetin didn't send any invitations to the Kingdoms of the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, etch etc.

[James_Davidov]

I think that Poetin didn't send any invitations to the Kingdoms of the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, etch etc.

wasn't it Yeltsin?

[Teddy]

Yes Yeltsin indeed. Ok my mistake.

[bluetoria]

Thanks, Teddy. Do you know of any reason why Yeltsin didn't extend the invitations? Did he see it a primarily an internal Russian matter? Or were his views more political.
On a purely human level, it would seem that it would have been a noble gesture to invite them if only because of their family links to the IF.  :-/

[matushka]

The fact that there is no solid evidence that these rest belong really to the Imperial family can be an other explanation. I still think that Boris Nikolaevich made something as a PR-campagny for himself with this burial. But I can be not right.

[Robert_Hall]

I think I have read that only members of the Romanov family were specifically invited. [Prince Michael being connected with them]. The church is not that large and would not accomodate a large, state-type assembly.

[ferngully]

well i don't think the orathdox church approved of it
selina               xxxxxxxxx

[Robert_Hall]

The Orthodox Church performed the burial rites.