Alexandra Romanov | Queen Victoria’s Granddaughter Who Wore Russia's Crown | History for Sleep

Born in a quiet Rhineland duchy in 1872, the girl her family called Sunny would one day wear the crown of Russia. This is the full life of Alexandra Romanov - from her childhood in Darmstadt as the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, to the glittering but isolated world of the Russian imperial court, to the final rooms of a house at the edge of Siberia. Along the way, you will meet Princess Alice, her thoughtful and reforming mother; Tsar Nicholas II, the devoted but ill-fated man she married; and the five children who became the most photographed, and then the most mourned, family of their age. This is a slow, careful walk through one complete life - told from the inside, year by year, the way it was actually lived.