I am yours, you are mine, of that be sure. You are locked in my heart, the little key is lost and now you must stay there forever.” – Alix to Nicholas
They first met at a family wedding in 1884 when Princess Alix of Hesse (later Empress Alexandra) was 12 and Nicholas was 16. Since they both sprang from the rarified world of European royalty they were closely related through multiple lines and saw each other quite regularly through the years.
Alix made enough of an impression on Nicholas that he scrawled in his diary he dreamed of marrying her one day.
Princess Alix of Hesse was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. By 1889, the Tsarevich Nicholas, heir to the Russian throne, was very taken with the lovely 17-year-old Alix when she came to St. Petersburg to visit her sister Ella. Shy and somewhat serious, Alix was interested in Nicholas as well. However, there were plenty of obstacles in the young couple’s path to matrimony.
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