Besides, Marie Feodorovna and Alexandra Feodorovna were never too close, and their distant relationship itself was enough to alienate the relationship between the grandmother and the grandchildren from each other. Alix wanted also to maintain very close terms to her children, not wanting anybody to come between her and them. - Marie Fedorovna could nevertheless meet OTMA regulary during the sunday dinners where her daughter Olga Alexandrovna brought the girls. In her letters to Nicholas, she seems to be a solicitous grandmother, but she didn't meet OTMAA as often as Ksenia's children, who became closer to her.