The saddest case of this must be that of Nicholas II, last of the Romanovs ... sort of healing power over the couple’s haemophiliac son Alexei. Charmless in public, she became a Marie Antoinette ...

Nicholas II was crowned that year as Tzar of Russia ... Hearing of this, Nicholas appointed him to his palace. Nicholas’s son, Alexis, had hemophilia. Rasputin somehow healed Alexis. However, Rasputin ...

Tsar Nicholas II, after the couple welcomed their first child, Olga. Victoria's son, the future King Edward VII, joined them. Though he was the youngest of his siblings, as the only son ...

Nicholas II was, as Mr. Hasegawa puts it ... first invited to court in 1905 to tend to the royal family’s only son, the hemophiliac heir Alexei. Alexandra would chastise her weak-willed ...

In his newly released book, “The Last Tsar: the Abdication of Nicholas II and the End of the Romanovs” (Basic Books ... Nicholas was forced to abdicate not only for himself but for his son, a decision ...