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by Frances Welch


  and Nicholas appoints as a Field Marshal 1

  attends memorial for 1

  friendship with 1, 2, 3

  resemblance to 1, 2, 3, 4

  telegram to 1

  photographs 1, 2

  reunion with surviving cousins 1

  withdrawal of asylum offer to

  imperial family 1, 2, 3

  see also Prince of Wales, Georgie

  Gibbes, Sydney 1, 2 criticises Epps 1

  discretion 1

  establishes a Russian Orthodox

  Church 1

  glowing review of Alix 1

  keepsakes 1

  letter to British official 1

  letter to Madgie 1

  one-play acts 1

  Gladstone, Herbert 1

  Gleb (son of Botkin) 1

  Glen Gelder 1

  Glen Muick 1

  Glenesk, Lord 1

  Gloster Hotel 1

  Gorky, Maxim 1

  Grabbe, Count 1

  Grand Duchesses 1, 2, 3, 4 Anastasia see Anastasia, Grand Duchess

  English accents criticised by

  Edward 1, 2 blame for 1

  Englishness of 1

  lunch on the HMS Lion 1

  Maria see Maria, Grand Duchess

  Olga see Olga, Grand Duchess

  Tatiana see Tatiana, Grand Duchess

  tutors for Epps see Epps, John

  Gibbes see Gibbes, Sydney

  visiting the Isle of Wight 1

  The Graphic 1, 2

  Grattan, Harry 1

  Grayson, Victor 1

  Great Exhibition 1

  Great North of Scotland Railway 1

  Gregorian calendar 1, 2

  Grey, Sir Edward 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 view of protesters 1

  Gris Nez (Grey Nose) lighthouse 1

  Hardie, Keir 1, 2 view of protesters 1

  Hardinge, Sir Charles, 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 discussions with Nicholas 1

  enthusiasm over Reval 1

  offers comfort to Alix 1

  views and accounts awarding of titles 1, 2

  British-Russian entente 1

  Kiel canal 1

  Nicholas’s relaxed manner 1

  Queen Alexandra’s accident at sea 1

  well-being of Nicholas 1

  Harrowgate Advertiser 1

  Heath, Charles parrot impersonation of 1

  tutoring Nicholas 1

  Henry, Sir Edward 1, 2, 3, 4

  Herold 1

  Hinze, Captain 1

  Hirsch, Baron 1

  HMS Achilles 1

  HMS Indomitable 1

  HMS Inflexible 1

  HMS Invincible 1

  HMS Lion 1

  HMS Lord Nelson 1, 2

  HMS Marlborough 1

  HMS Minotaur 1

  HMS Temeraire 1

  horse racing/dealing 1

  Hotel Mirabeau 1

  The Huddersfield Chronicle 1

  Imperial family communal games 1

  exhumation of bodies 1

  exile in Ekaterinburg 1

  in Tobolsk 1

  falling popularity of 1

  gifts chain from Queen Victoria 1

  Fabergé cutlery 1

  Fabergé mosaic egg 1

  nephrite vase set 1

  Scots Grey Uniform 1

  Wilkinson sword 1

  holidays in the Isle of Wight 1 Osborne Bay 1

  hoping for British safe haven 1

  house arrest 1

  isolation of 1

  memorial 1

  murder of 1

  public appearances, lack of 1

  visit to Germany 1 popularity of Alix 1

  unpopularity of Nicholas 1

  see also Alix ‘Alicky’, Tsarina;

  Balmoral visit (imperial family);

  Grand Duchesses;

  Isle of Wight visit (imperial family);

  Nicholas II ‘Nicky’, Tsar;

  Paris visit (imperial family);

  Reval meeting, imperial family

  Imperial Hotel 1

  Inman, Mrs (nanny) 1

  International Anarchist Movement 1

  Irene (sister of Alix) 1

  Irish-American activists 1

  Iskra (Spark) 1

  Isle of Wight County Press 1, 2 assembly of fashionable people 1

  exuberance at imperial family’s visit 1

  Grand Duchesses’ shopping trip 1, 2, 3

  musical contingent 1

  Nicholas coming ashore 1

  Russian motorboat accident 1

  security arrangements 1

  weather 1, 2, 3

  Isle of Wight Times 1

  Isle of Wight visit (imperial family) accident involving Russian

  motorboat 1

  dinner Edward’s speech 1

  on the Standart 1

  on the Victoria and Albert 1

  discreet and remote location 1

  formal complaints 1

  illumination of British naval

  fleet 1

  imperial family 1 children appearing to the

  crowds 1

  coming ashore 1

  cruise on the Britannia 1

  day at the beach 1

  departure 1

  itinerary 1, 2

  meeting with Empress

  Eugenie 1

  seasickness 1

  shopping trip 1

  Te Deum 1

  upset for Alix 1

  visit to Osborne House 1

  journalists invited on the

  Standart 1

  lunch on the Standart 1

  on the Victoria and Albert 1

  meetings on yachts 1

  Nicholas (Tsar) dinner speech 1

  farewell message 1

  meeting the Royal Scots

  Greys 1

  presents gifts and medals 1, 2

  receives deputations 1

  policing 1

  protests demonstration in Trafalgar

  Square 1

  House of Commons 1

  newspaper coverage 1

  radicals 1, 2

  ‘Resolution of Protest’ 1

  review of British Naval Fleet 1

  royal family 1 welcoming the imperial family 1

  royal yacht squadron races 1 absence of Russian yachts 1

  Russian choristers 1

  Russian courtiers concerns about appearance 1

  High Street visit 1 staring at 1

  security arrangements 1, 2 diplomats 1

  heads of security meeting 1

  hoodwinking the public 1

  lists of guests 1

  overbearing 1

  pleasure launches 1

  spectators 1, 2

  visitors 1

  weather 1, 2, 3

  see also Standart (imperial yacht); Victoria and Albert (royal yacht)

  Izvolsky, Alexander 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ability of 1

  appearance 1

  cheered by speeches 1

  death 1

  discussions with Edward 1

  dress codes 1

  interview with Reuter’s

  journalist 1

  invitation from Lady Savile 1, 2 letters in reply 1, 2, 3

  low spirits 1, 2, 3

  views and accounts disagreement over Straits 1

  Nicholas’s meeting with

  Edward 1

  Jackson, Margaret ‘Madgie’ 1, 2, 3

  Jameson, Brigadier Melville 1

  Japan 1, 2, 3, 4

  Jenkins, Signalman Alfred H.E. 1

  Jews 1

  Julian calendar 1, 2, 3

  Justice 1

  Kaiser Wilhelm II 1, 2, 3, 4 daughter’s wedding 1

  displeasure at Reval meeting 1

  feared British-Russian plot 1

  Kent House 1

  Keppel, Alice 1

  Kerensky, Alexander 1, 2, 3

  Khodynka Fields 1

  Kiel canal 1

  Kingston 1

  Knollys, Charlotte 1

  Knollys, Sir Francis
1, 2, 3, 4

  Konstantinovich, Grand Duke Konstantin 1

  Kremlin Museums 1

  Kropotkin, Prince Pyotr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 October Revolution 1

  arrives in England 1

  death 1

  negative view of British politics 1

  trial in Paris 1

  Kyba, Pierre 1

  Lascelles, Frank 1

  Leeds, Billy 1

  Leeds, Duke of 1

  The Leeds Mercury 1

  Leeds, Nonie May 1, 2

  Leith Harbour 1, 2

  Leith railway station 1, 2

  Lenin, Krupskaya 1, 2 English food 1

  seeing the sights 1

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 1, 2 attack on 1

  British Museum 1, 2

  living in London 1

  living in Switzerland 1

  meeting with Trotsky 1 picnic 2

  RSDLP congress (1907) 1 speech 2

  view of the English proletariat 1

  see also Bolsheviks; October Revolution

  Leopold (son of Queen Victoria) 1

  Lipton, Sir Thomas 1

  Liverpool Chamber of Commerce 1

  Lloyd George, Prime Minister David 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  withdrawal of asylum offer to imperial family 1

  Lobanov-Rostovsky, Prince Alexei 1, 2

  London lax security 1

  Russian revolutionaries 1

  London Chamber of Commerce 1

  Louis of Battenberg, Prince 1

  Lucy, Henry 1 describes British Naval Fleet

  display 1

  scathing of subterfuge 1, 2

  Lunacharsky, Anatoly 1

  Lytton, Lady Edith 1, 2, 3, 4 complimentary about Alix 1

  dinner seating plan 1

  on Nicholas’s youth 1

  smitten by Olga 1

  MacDonald, Ramsay 1

  Macedonia 1

  Macleod, Frances 1

  Maggs (book dealer) 1

  Main Street (West Cowes) 1

  Mallet, Marie 1, 2, 3 description of Alix 1

  Mar Lodge 1, 2, 3

  Margaret, Princess 1

  Margareta (floating palace) 1, 2

  Maria, Grand Duchess 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 appearing at Trinity Wharf 1

  smitten with Rasputin 1

  Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 1

  Marie, Dowager Empress 1, 2, 3, 4 and Alix arguments with 1

  rivalry with 1

  arrival at Reval 1

  birthday 1

  and British fashion 1

  disapproval of Rasputin 1

  dislike of Nana 1

  donkey riding on

  Mediterranean cruise 1

  escapes from Russia 1

  holiday with Alexandra 1

  low profile 1

  passion for Britain 1

  Marlborough House 1

  Marvin Junior, A.E. 1

  Marx, Karl 1

  Marx Memorial Library 1

  Mary, Princess 1

  Massie, Robert K. 1, 2, 3

  Maurice, Prince of Battenberg 1

  May (wife of George) 1, 2, 3 diary compliments the band 1

  departure of the imperial family 1

  dinner 1

  imperial family coming ashore 1

  summarises imperial family’s visit 1

  weather 1

  relationship with Alix 1

  see also Princess of Wales, May

  McIntosh’s house 1

  McKenna, Reginald 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Melville, William 1

  The Merchants 1, 2

  Metropolitan Police 1

  Mikhailovich, Grand Duke Michael 1, 2

  Milyukov, Pavel 1

  Minotaur (ship) 1

  Mitchie, John 1

  Morris, Jan 1

  Mossolov, Alexander 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 describes atmosphere on the Victoria and Albert 1

  motion picture 1

  Mountbatten, Earl 1

  Munshi, the 1, 2, 3

  Murray, Alexander 1

  Nana see Francklin, Elizabeth ‘Nana’

  Napoleon III 1

  New Kings Hall 1

  The New York Times 1, 2, 3, 4

  Newport, Mayor of 1

  Nicholas and Alexandra (Massie) 1

  Nicholas II ‘Nicky’, Tsar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 abdication 1

  and Alix courtship 1

  engagement 1

  marriage 1, 2

  sympathy for 1

  time at Walton 1

  anti-Semitism 1, 2

  appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Greys 1

  change of arrival date 1

  citizen clothing 1

  complains about weather 1, 2, 3

  compliments British Naval Fleet 1

  condolences to George 1

  coronation 1

  declines state procession 1

  dental problems 1, 2, 3 dental work 1

  details of Royal Navy visit 1

  diary Abergeldie Castle 1

  Alix’s birthday 1

  Alix’s headache 1

  dining with Edward 1

  dinner at Reval 1

  dinner on the Victoria and Albert 1

  dislike of Mrs Inman 1, 2

  engagement to Alix 1

  hunting 1

  journey to the Isle of Wight 1

  lunch and dinner with

  Queen Victoria 1

  Miss Coster 1

  Rasputin 1, 2

  reunion with Alix 1

  rough sailing conditions 1

  Scots Greys uniform 1

  toothache 1, 2

  train journeys 1, 2, 3, 4

  visit to Osborne House 1

  weather 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  diplomatic duties 1

  easily led 1

  and Edward feelings about 1

  letter to 1

  relationship with 1

  enjoying Russian culture 1

  fatalism of 1

  fear 1

  food preferences 1

  friendship with George 1, 2

  gifts for staff 1

  greeting royal family on

  Victoria and Albert 1

  ‘highly successful nephew’ 1, 2, 3

  human rights record 1

  hunting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  invitation to British royals 1

  lack of height 1, 2

  lacking personality 1

  letter to General Gardiner 1

  London meeting cancelled 1

  losing power 1

  motion picture 1

  over-generosity of 1

  packing to leave 1

  photographs 1, 2

  political discussion with Lord Salisbury 1, 2

  portrait gift 1

  pressure of work 1

  pressure to support British

  causes 1

  and Queen Victoria appearance of 1

  French-Russian relations 1

  political discussions 1, 2, 3, 4

  rapport with 1

  reunion with 1

  resemblance to George 1, 2, 3, 4

  Russian-British relations 1

  sighting of royal yacht 1

  smoking 1

  uniform English Admiral 1

  Scots Greys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  unpopularity in Germany 1

  view on Boer War 1

  visit to Paris 1

  visiting Alexandra 1

  waning trust in Britain 1

  wearing a kilt 1

  well-being 1

  youth of 1

  see also Balmoral visit (imperial family);

  imperial family;

  Isle of Wight visit (imperial family);

  Paris visit (imperial family);

  Reval meeting, Nicholas (Tsar)

  Nicky see Nicholas II ‘Nicky’, Tsar

  Nicolson, Harold 1

  Nicolson, Sir Arthur 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 death 1

  dislike of food on Standart 1

  Englishness of imperial children 1

  Russian culture
1

  stature of 1

  views and accounts of Edward’s manner 1, 2

  family character of Reval

  meeting 1

  Nicholas’s uniform 1

  of the serenades 1

  unflattering references to

  Alix 1

  Victoria and Albert 1

  Nilov, Admiral Constantine 1, 2

  North Junction Street 1

  North Queen’s ferry 1

  Nova Scotia baronetcy badge 1

  O’Beirne, Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4 success of Reval meeting 1

  O’Connor, Nicholas 1, 2

  October Revolution (1917) 1, 2, 3

  O’Grady, Mr J. 1

  okhrana 1, 2

  Old Red Lion pub 1

  Olga, Grand Duchess 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 appearance 1

  appearing at Trinity Wharf 1

  bathing 1

  beauty 1

  bonding with David 1, 2

  concern for mother’s health 1

  crush on Nikolai 1

  Japanese people comment 1

  marriage to Grand Duke Peter

  of Oldenburg 1

  newspaper coverage of 1

  and Orchie 1 dislike of 1

  fondness of 1

  photographs 1, 2

  rapturous reception for 1

  and Rasputin confides in 232

  smitten with 1

  shopping trip 1 mobbings 1

  photograph 1

  Queen Victoria’s church 1

  riding in the wagonette 1

  upset at departure 1

  waving at the crowds 1

 

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