“ Nicholas II, once Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias (and now Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer), was the first cousin of King George V, who was also a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm II (and great-great-grandfather to Prince William), and cousin to Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna (née Princess Alix of Hesse), who was also the cousin of Nicholas. (The three sovereign cousins looked more like twins and, perhaps ironically, perhaps predictably, were not all on the same side in the First World War.)
— (Statements like this want to see a family tree of European royalty, which seems to be stunningly inbred.) Julia Ioffe, “The Royal Wedding, Moscow Style,” The New Yorker
