The deaths of the Russian royal family are depicted in the fifth season of "The Crown"
The Romanovs were put to death in 1918.
The British royal family's involvement is a topic that the show gets correct and incorrect about.
The new season of "The Crown" begins with a different royal family than has been seen before.
King George V's cozy breakfast with his wife, Mary of Teck, and son, Edward VIII, was interrupted by an urgent matter.
The king's aide handed him a letter from the prime minister's office telling him that the government wanted to rescue Nicholas II and his family. The tsar is the cousin of the king.
The next scene shows the repercussions of King George's decision as the tsar, his wife, and five children are brutally murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries.
What really happened to the Romanov dynasty is compared with what happened in the episode.
Peter the Great's descendants ruled over Russia for the final time.
There were 17 Romanov rulers on the Russian throne before Nicholas II was crowned.
He was not trained or inclined to rule when he came to power at the age of 26.
The couple had four daughters together over the course of 15 years. Their only son, Alexei, was born in 1904, after they turned to faith in hopes of getting a male heir.
Nicholas faced challenges in his public life. The suppression of the 1905 Russian Revolution and the role he played in it became known as Nicholas the Bloody.
The Romanov dynasty's 304-year rule of Russia ended after he abdicated.
The Romanovs were held captive in Russia for 78 days before they were executed.
After the February Revolution, they were held captive in the Alexander Palace for a long time.
They had just a few servants with them, including a chambermaid, cook, valet, and doctor.
George V and Nicholas II were very similar to each other.
The rulers were actually cousins as their mothers were sisters.
PrincessAlexandra was the wife of Edward VII, George V's father. Nicholas was the last Russian monarch and his mother was Maria Fedorovna.
The rulers used the names "Georgie" and "Nicky" for each other and even vacationed together.
The resemblance of the two men was remarked upon when the families gathered for events such as vacations and royal weddings. The families were photographed together on the Isle of Wight in 1909.
When Nicholas and his family were murdered, George wrote in his diary that he was devoted to him.
George V denied his cousin and his family asylum in the United Kingdom. The decision was made over a long period of time.
The British monarch initially intended to rescue Nicholas II but was undermined by his secretary.
The Romanovs were brought to the UK to fuel the republican movement.
If he was seen as too welcoming to the family, the king might have faced the threat of his own forced abdication.
Also, there was the issue of the nationality of the person. It would have been unpopular to grant her asylum during World War I. The offer to save the family was withdrawn.
In the early hours of July 17, 1918, the family and their servants were woken and told to dress. They thought they were going to be saved.
The family thought they had been saved by "cousin George" or someone else when they woke up from their sleep.
They were led into a small basement room and told to wait while they took pictures to prove their safety.
Nicholas asked for another chair for Alexei because he was sick, according to Town and Country.
They were told that the Ural Executive Committee had decided to execute them because their relatives were attacking Soviet Russia.
According to "The Fate of the Romanovs" by Greg King andPenny Wilson, Nicholas and his family were so confused that they asked the chief executioner to repeat something.
The heavily armed men entered the room and started shooting at the family. Many of the guards were injured by bullet fragments. The younger members of the family were hit with a sharp object.
The show suggests that they were discovered and identified earlier than they actually were.
The Romanovs were buried in two graves, one containing Nicholas, the other containing three of their daughters and one of their sisters.
After Boris Yeltsin's visit to London in 1994, the remains of the Romanovs are shown to have been discovered.
The final resting place of the family was found in 1991 by an amateur archeologist.
The timelines of the reburial have also changed. After Nicholas' remains were verified, it took place in 1998, according to the show.
There is no evidence that Queen Elizabeth II asked Yeltsin to give the Romanovs an official burial, and she did not plan her visit to Moscow to see the family buried.
"The Crown" claims that Prince Philip was involved in identifying the bodies.
The Duke of Edinburgh gave a sample of his genetic material for the scientific inquiry to identify Nicholas.
The body of Nicholas's brother provided the missing link in proving that the bodies belonged to the Romanovs. The Washington Post reported that Grand Duke George was exhumed to provide a genetic match for Nicholas.
Although Philip and the Queen were distantly related to the Romanovs, Philip's connection came through his maternal line which proved useful in determining the identities of the dead.
Philip's great-aunt was named the tsarina because she shared the same genetic makeup as him. His blood sample proved that the remains were those of the Romanovs.
There is no proof that Mary made the decision to save the Romanovs.
There is a new theory about why the British royals didn't help out the Russians. She thinks that it could have been due to jealousy.
She tells the Queen that there was a rivalry between the two women prior to their marriage.
She said thatAlexandra was from a better family.
The proposal of Prince Albert, King Edward VII's oldest son, was rejected byAlexandra before Mary became engaged to him, according toPenny. Mary was married to George after Albert died.
There is no evidence that Mary had anything to do with the decision not to give the family asylum.
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