Tsarina Alexandra

Granddaughter of Prince Albert (1819-1861) and Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Was the daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837 - 1892) and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843 - 1878).

Niece of Victoria, Princess Royal (1840 - 1901), King Edward VII (1841-1910), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844 - 1900), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846 - 1923), Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848 - 1939), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850 - 1942), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853 - 1884), Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944).

Daughter-in-law of Czar Aleksandr III (1845-1894) and Czarina Maria Fyodorovna (formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark) (1847-1928).

First cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860 - 1919), Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1862-1929), Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866 - 1929), Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1868-1879), Sophia of Prussia (1870 - 1932) and Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872 - 1954), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874 - 1899), Queen Marie of Romania (1875-1938), Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876 - 1936), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1878 - 1942), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884 - 1966).

Had six siblings: Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864-1918), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866-1953), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868-1937), Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870-1873) and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874- 1878).

Sister-in-law of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869-70), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-99), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875-1960), Grand Duke Michael and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882-1960), Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854 - 1921), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857 - 1905), Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1862-1929) and Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1871 - 1937).

Also, her brother Frederick (1870-1873) died from a fall from a window in his mother's room, complicated by hemophilia. She spent much of her time in England, staying with her grandmother and various aunts, uncles and cousins. When she was older she continued in the role of Landsmutter (Mother of the land) for her father. At the wedding of her sister Elizabeth (Ella) to their cousin Seril of Russia, Alix met for the first time (and fell in love with) the Tsarivitch Nicholas. Even thought she was in love with him she did not want to marry him because she did not want to give up her Protestantism to be Russian Orthodox. About 4 or 5 years after they first met Alix's brother Ernest got married to their first cousin nicknamed Ducky. Since both were cousins of Nicholas as well he went to the wedding to see Alex. During the time that he was there he continually asked her to be his wife, and thanks to their love as well as their cousin Kaiser William II Alex finally consented to marry Nicholas. Alix spent the first part of her engagement with her grandmother Queen Victoria in England telling her everything that had transpired leading to the engagement. The rest of the engagement did not go so smoothly though. Several months after the engagement Nicholas's father became ill at one of his palaces in Russia. Alix hearing this got there as soon as she could, but shortly after she got there Nicholas became Tsar Nicholas II. After this tragedy Alix did not want to wait to become a member of the family. Shortly after the death of her future father-in-law Alix became a member of the Russian Orthodox Faith taking the name Alexandra Fyodorovna. She and Nicholas wanted to marry were they were, but family told them that they should get married after the funeral of his father in Moscow. Thus the people of Russia got their first glimpse of their future Empress through death.

Alix of Hess-Darmstadt was born on June 8, 1872 in Darmstadt, Germany. Her parents were the Grand Duke and Duchess of Darmstadt; her mother was also the daughter of Queen Victoria. When Alix was still very young, her sister Mary and then her mother died of diphtheria.

Ex-Sister-in-law of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876 - 1936).

Second cousin of Crown Prince Hohenzollern (1882-1951), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1879 - 1945), Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889-1945), Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896-1978), Prince Henry of Prussia (1900-1904), George II of Greece (1890-1947), Alexander of Greece (1893 - 1920), Helen of Greece and Denmark (1896 - 1982), Paul of Greece (1901 - 1964), Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904 - 1974), Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (1913 - 2007), Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel (1893- 1916), Prince Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel (1894 - 1914), Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896 - 1980), Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (b. 1896 - 1989), Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901 - 1943).

They were married on November 26, 1894, shortly after the death of his father, and before 1901 had four daughters named Olga (1895-1918) Tatiana (1897-1918), Maria (1899-1918) and Anastasia (1901-1918).

Was mother of five children: Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895), Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897), Grand Duchess Marie (b. 1899), Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901) and Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov (b. 1904).

In 1904 Alix gave birth to a son Alexis (known as Alexei) and sadly he had hemophilia, which was passed on to her a sister and brother from their mother Princess Alice and grandmother Queen Victoria.

Third cousin of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906-1940), Princess Barbara of Prussia (1920 - 1994), Prince Alfred Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Conrad of Prussia (b. 1924), Sofía de Grecia b. (1938), King Constantine II (b. 1940), Princess Irene of Greece (b. 1942), Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (b. 1943), Richard Paul George Andrew Brandram (b. 1948), Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1926 - 2013), Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel (1927 - 1999), Prince Otto Adolf of Hesse-Kassel (1937 - 1998), Princess Elisabeth Margarethe of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1940), Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (1933 - 2011), Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse (b. 1934), Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse (b. 1937), Prince Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse (b. 1939), Princess Clarissa Alice of Hesse (b. 1944).

In 1917 Nicholas was forced to abdicate the throne of Russia. The people who would have accepted it if he had abdicated in favor of his son, did not understand why he abdicated in favor of his brother. He only did this because he knew that his son's chances of survival were not good.

He and his family were then imprisoned in Siberia, and later moved to Ekaterinburg, where on the night of July 17, 1918 the Russian royal family was massacred.

4th cousin of Princess Felicitas of Prussia (1934- 2009), Princess Christa Friederike Alexandrine Viktoria of Prussia (b. 1936), Duchess Donata of Mecklenburg (b. 1956), Duchess Edwina of Mecklenburg-Schwerin b. 1960), Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (b. 1945), Margareta of Romania (b. 1949), Princess Elena of Romania (b. 1950), Irina Walker (b. 1953), Princess Sophie of Romania (b. 1957), Princess Marie of Romania (b. 1964), Elena de Borbón (b. 1963), Cristina de Borbón (b. 1965), Crown Prince King Felipe of Spain (b. 1968), Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (b. 1965), Crown Prince Pavlos (b. 1967), Prince Nikolaos (b. 1969), Theodora Greece (b. 1983), Prince Philippos (b. 1986), Princess Bianca of Savoy-Aosta (b. 1966), Prince Aimone, Duke of Apulia (b. 1967), Princess Mafalda of Savoy-Aosta (b. 1969), Ginevra Maria Gabriella van Ellinkhuizen (b. 2006), Sophie Eila Brandram (b. 1981), Nicholas George Brandram (b. 1982), Alexia Katherine Brandram (b. 1985), Mafalda von Hessen (b. 1965), Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1966), Princess Elena Elisabeth Madeleine of Hesse (b. 1967), Prince Philip Robin of Hesse (b. 1970), Count Friedrich Karl Philipp Wilhelm Hans Moritz Maria von Oppersdorff (b. 1962) and Count Alexander Wolfgang Johannes Georg Viktor Emanuel Maria von Oppersdorff (b. 1965), Princess Maria Tatiana ("Tania") of Yugoslavia (b. 1957), Prince Christopher of Yugoslavia (1960 - 1994), Helen Sophia van Eyck (b. 1963), Mark Nicholas van Eyck (b. 1966), Johanna von Hesse (b. 1980).

6th cousin of Felicitas Catharini Malina Johanna von Reiche (b. 1986), Victoria Cecilie Alexandra Josephine von Reiche (b. 1989), Donata Friederike Diana Sophie von Reiche (b. 1992), Julius Marxen (b. 1998), Victor Marxen (b. 2002), Prince Stefan (b. 2018), Iris Anna Cîrjan (b. 2016), Kohen (b. 2012), Courtney Bianca (b. 2007), Diana (b. 2011).

5th cousin of Friederike Thyra Marion Wilhelmine Dorothea von der Osten (b. 1959), Dinnies Wilhelm Karl Alexander von der Osten (b. 1962-1989), Hubertus Christoph Joachim Friedrich von der Osten, b. 1964), Cecilie Felicitas Katherina Sophie von der Osten (b. 1967), Diana Renata Friederike von Nostitz-Wallwitz (b. 1974), Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia (b. 1980), Prince Philip of Yugoslavia (b. 1982), Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (b. 1982), Nicholas Medforth-Mills (b. 1985), Elisabeta Karina de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (b. 1989), Michael Torsten (b. 1984), Angelica Margareta Bianca (b. 1986), Elisabeta-Maria de Roumanie Biarneix (b. 1999), Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y Borbón (b. 1998), Victoria Federica de Marichalar y Borbón (b. 2000), Juan Urdangarín y de Borbón (b. 1999), Pablo Urdangarín y de Borbón (b. 2000), Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón (b. 2002), Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón (b. 2005), Leonor, Princess of Asturias (b. 2005), Infanta Sofía of Spain (b. 2007), Arrietta Morales y de Grecia (b. 2002), Ana María Morales y de Grecia (b. 2003), Carlos Morales y de Grecia (b. 2005), Amelia Morales y de Grecia (b. 2007), Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark (b. 1996), Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark (b. 1998), Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark (b. 2000), Prince Odysseas-Kimon (b. 2004), Prince Aristidis-Stavros (b. 2008), Viola Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga (b. Rome, 31 May 1991), Vera Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga (b. 1993), Mafalda Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga (b. 1997), Maddalena Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga (b. 2000), Leonardo Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga (b. 2001), Prince Umberto of Savoy-Aosta (b. 2009), Prince Amedeo Michele of Savoy-Aosta, (b. 2011), Princess Isabella Vita Marina of Savoy-Aosta (b. 2012), Anna Lombardo di San Chirico (b. 2002), Carlo Lombardo di San Chirico (b. 2003), Elena Lombardo di San Chirico (b. 2004), Maximillian Walter Voelcker (b. 2018), Alexander Paul Voelcker (b. 2019), Theodora Katherine Anne Hicks (b. 2019), Tatiana Galdo (b. 1992), Polissena Galdo (born 1993), Count Cosmo Brachetti Peretti (b. 2000) and Count Briano Brachetti Peretti (b. 2002), Princess Paulina (b. 2007), Hereditary Prince Moritz (b. 2007) and Prince August (b. 2012), illegitimate ? (b. 1976), Madeleine Immacolata Tatiana Theresa Caiazzo (b. 1999), Princess Elena Margherita Lotti Christiane Elisabeth (b. 2006), Prince Tito (b. 2008), Princess Mafalda (b. 2014), Sonia Tatiana Thune-Larsen (b. 1992), Olga Kristin Thune-Larsen (b. 1995), Sascha Alexandra Sophia Harman (b. 1986), Pascale Olivia Harman (b. 1989), Anna Clarissa Dietrich (b. 2013), Nikolaus Karl Dietrich (b. 2014), Heinz Anton Dietrich (b. 2016), Marie Elisabeth Dietrich (b. 2016).

Compared to Joan Crawford in Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018) (with qualification; they were very different in some ways): both had sad childhoods, both sought solace in religion, both dominated their "weak-willed husbands," both had problems with a mother-in-law, both liked simple foods, both liked to get away to the coast, etc. The writer/director of that film, Jordan Mohr, has an interest in Russian history of the revolutionary era.