The British royals have a series of familial links with Russia stretching as far back as Queen Victoria, but which were damaged in 1918 by the murder of Czar Nicholas II and his family. Queen Alexandra, Elizabeth II's great-grandmother, was born a Danish princess and married Queen Victoria's eldest son, the future Edward VII.
Alexandra's sister became the wife of Czar Alexander III and their son Nicholas became the last Czar, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Nicholas II of Russia was a close friend of Queen Alexandra's son, his British first cousin George V (Elizabeth II's grandfather). The pair looked strikingly similar with people often mistaking one for the other.
At the last minute, this invitation had to be rescinded for fear that the revolution would spread to Britain. The Czar and his family were murdered on July 17, 1918.
Many members of the extended Russian royal family were granted exile in Britain following the revolution, one of which was Czar Nicholas II's sister Xenia.
At the height of the Russian Revolution, a plan was hatched that would have seen Nicholas II and his family flee to England to be given refuge by George V and Queen Mary.

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