Tsarevich Alexander & Princess Dagmar 1866 (Royal Weddings Book 22) (English Edition)

The parents of Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas II, very nearly never married. In fact, Emperor Alexander III of Russia (1845-1894) and his wife, Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928), appeared destined to live separate lives from each other, for the Empress, the former Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was engaged to marry Alexander III’s older brother, the heir to the Russian throne. His untimely death in 1865, however, changed Dagmar’s fate. She was soon to find herself affianced to the new Tsarevich and heir, Alexander. Here is the dramatic story of how Dagmar of Denmark and Alexander of Russia came to wed in 1866.