The House of Windsor is the reigning royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. In 1917, the name of the royal house was changed from the anglicised German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor because of anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during World War I.

Are there any Romanovs alive today? There are no immediate family members of the former Russian Royal Family alive today. However, there are still living descendants of the Romanov family. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II is the grandnephew of Tsarina Alexandra.

The Romanovs were originally one of two dozen Russian noble families before rising to become tsars. The family originated in Germany. All of the Romanov leaders took German consorts as their wife, including Czar Nicholas II, whose wife Alexandra was German.

18 Aboard the Standart, sailors take turns bouncing their shipmates down the deck on mats. 20 Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatyana, and Maria aboard the Standart in 1914. The sisters were 22, 21, and 19 years old when they were killed.

Maria Romanov

Today there is nothing left of this house, for it was demolished in September 1977. On this very spot, now stands the Church on the Blood, a spot of pilgrimage honoring those who were killed brutally on that dark day in July many years ago.

Then, unexpectedly, their captors turned on them, attacking them first with bullets, then with the butts of guns, bayonets and even their own heels and fists. All seven of the Romanovs—and the last gasp of the Russian monarchy—were dead.

How did most Russian citizens make a living in the early 1900s? Most Russians were factory workers who earned low wages in manufacturing. Most Russians were white-collar employees who worked in offices and shops. Most Russians were wealthy landowners who were part of the privileged class.

Why did the royal family get moved to Ekaterinburg? Fear that the White Army would set Nicholas free.

17 years (1901–1918)

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, also known as Anya, is a fictional character from the 1997 Fox Animation Studios film of the same name, and a fictional version of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. She is voiced by Meg Ryan, while Liz Callaway provides her singing voice.

Anya and Dimitri get married and they lived happily ever after.

In the books, Anastasia is in her final year of college when she meets Christian Grey and she is 21 years old. In the book, we know that Grey’s character is a 27-year-old billionaire, meaning that she and Christian have a six-year age difference.

101 different shades

Emilia Clarke

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan’s relationship Even though we all desperately wanted for Jamie and Dakota to be a couple, but they always remained friends. There have been so many rumours regarding their relationship; initially about disliking each other to dating each other.

Common terms of endearment, such as baby are defined by Merriam Webster’s dictionary as “something that is one’s responsibility, achievement, or interest”. Quite frequently Christian uses the salutation “Laters, baby” right before he leaves Ana.

In spite of the star power that both Dornan and Johnson brought to the big screen in Fifty Shades of Grey, they were reportedly paid very little for their work in the movie. In fact, multiple reports claim that Dornan and Johnson were only paid $250,000 each for their roles in the first Fifty Shades of Grey movie.

14 But They Are Actually Very Good Friends Yes, because other than a lot of “photo assumption”, there was really no evidence that the two disliked each other. In fact, Fifty Shades of Grey director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, set the record straight very soon after the rumor mill started: “Everyone likes to gossip.