Tsarina Alice of Sous Novia

**Tsarina Alice Nikolaevna Romanova of Imperial Russia and the Sous Novian Empire** (**Alice Nikolaevna Romanova**; Алиса Никола́евна Рома́нова, tr. *Alisa Nikoláyevna Románova*; June 18 [O.S. June 5] 1901 – July 17, 1939) was the first child/daughter of the legendary **Three Romanova Sisters**; her story and the description of her exploits was so legendary that even the Romanova Imperial Family honored her memory. Her Russian title of **Tsarina** refers to her status as the first child, and is used to indicate her place in the line of succession—she also used the Russian version of her name, Alexandra Feodorovna, making her name exactly like that of her paternal grandmother, Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse). One of the few red-headed Romanova`s—her unique facial features make her the first Tsarina to inherit the red-headedness of her ancestors; her appearance was so unique that when a noblewoman (Alix of Avalon) was mistaken for her, she was believed to be the long-lost Tsarina Alice. In truth, Princess Alix of Avalon was actually Tsarina Alice/Alexandra Feodorovna`s full-blooded first-cousin, as her parents (Duke Clarington and Duchess Clarington) are both relatives of Nicholas II and his immediate family—she was the only noblewoman mistaken for Tsarina Alice making their resemblance even more unsettling and unique in nature. Alice was the younger sister of Archduchess Ariana, and was the elder sister of Tsarina Coraline, and Tsarina Katherine. She was killed along with Katherine and Coraline by a group of Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1939.

Persistent rumors of her possible escape circulated after her death, fueled by the fact that the location of her burial was unknown during the decades of Communist rule. One of her close relatives, Princess Alix of Avalon, was claimed by members of the House of Vergi to be Tsarina Alice of Sous Novia, when in truth the two were actually first-cousins, their parents being close relatives to each other; Princess Alix and Prince Zuko (the brother-sister pair) denied claims that Princess Alix was the long-lost Tsarina Alice with both of them being assassinated during the decades of Communist rule over Russia. Her Most Serene Highness, Princess Maria Angelica Anastasia Vergi, was also claimed by commoners to be the long-lost Tsarina Alice; however DNA testing in 1994 on available pieces of Maria`s tissue and hair showed a distant relation instead of a close relation to the Romanova family.

## Biography

### Early Years

When Alice was born, her parents and extended family heralded her birth considering her to be the only non-hemophilic girl (Ariana was a carrier of the disease while Katherine was a hemophiliac), while Coraline (had both inherited the disease and was a carrier of it); her birth was so celebrated that even members of the Romanova Imperial Family came to visit her family when she was born. Her older sister (Archduchess Ariana) were shocked and became wary of everybody and anything when the Bolsheviks stated their intention to murder the young Alice; while being blessed by a priest and baptized the security around the chapel was heavy, that the Bolsheviks called off the attack. Princess Helena of Russia (her mother) and Empress Anastasia of Russia (her father) declared that the young Alice and her two older sisters must be put underneath a 24/7-hour guard due to the possibility of the Bolsheviks attempting to assassinate them; Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia even mentioned in her book how the young Tsarina was put underneath constant watch. Her father (Anastasia) was often called away on business and Princess Helena was often ill due to the absence of her "husband"; the Russian Imperial Family also disapproved of the couple`s marriage considering it unhealthy for Princess Helena and often urged the young often-sickly and ill Princess to divorce her husband. Her maternal aunt, Sophie described a young Alice as extremely quiet and composed while in the presence of polite company, rowdy and carefree while playing with her none-hemophilic friends, and extremely attentive and assertive around her older sisters; she cared for them, and monitored their hemophiliac states when they were ill or coughing up large amounts of blood. The biological granddaughter of Margaretta Eagar, Duchess Caroline Eagar, described her tenure as a governess to the young Tsarina Alice as an exciting adventure and a wonderful experience; her death in 1939 would heavily impact the Duchess who regarded the death of Tsarina Alice as the "greatest personal tragedy of my entire life..hard enough to make my heart clench. Tis is a tragedy. The death of Tsarina Alice..oh! Dear God bless her soul." Sydney Gibbes`s wife and two daughters served as companions to the young Tsarina Alice, being executed by firing squad alongside the Three Romanova Sisters; the deaths of his wife and two daughters impacted Sydney Gibbes and he was heavily shaken by the way they died. One event in her earlier childhood foreshadowed her future death at the hands of the very same people that her parents had tried to protect her from; her nightmare in which she dreamed that she was being shot by bullets from guns and then bayoneted to death as she had survived the initial round of fire.

#### Phobia

For as long as the young Tsarina Alice had been alive, she had been plagued by an unusual phobia of water presumed to mean that she was somebody`s reincarnation; in truth this was just another clue of how her body was going to be mishandled after her death. Her body was acidified like those of Katherine and Coraline; months before her death, her phobia evolved to include panic attacks, headaches, increasing anxiety when looking at or even touching water. To stay hydrated, special treats were baked to keep the young Tsarina from shrieking or having a panic attack at the sight of the liquid. Her phobia was also described as an extension as the fear she felt whenever her younger sisters got injuries as water reminded her of the dark-red blood that appeared out of her sisters` wounds when their wounds cut deep into their skin; she became traumatized at the sight of blood, even freezing up out of shock and required a hard slap to the face to wake herself up.

### World War I and Russian Revolution

The young Empress Anastasia having already left the country with her wife (Princess Helena of Russia) agreed to let her eldest daughter/child, Tsarina Alice, visit the Russian Empire alongside her chosen companions and an entourage of guards; while at his Sandringham Estate, King George V, received word of a Russian relative of his visiting the Russian Imperial Family from the Sous Novian Empire. The pictures of the young Tsarina Alice and the cold expressions of the young Tsarina and her entourage circulated the Royal and Imperial Courts of Europe; her two cousins (Princess Maria Angelica and Princess Alix) also depicted in the pictures alongside the young Tsarina Alice and her entourage displayed far more emotion, Princess Maria Angelica trying to conceal a noticeable laugh behind an opened fan and Princess Alix smiling warmly at the camera. Felix Dassel who would later come to know the Tsarina described her as "cold, unfeeling even, she frowned and it was like all of the warmth in the room had been sucked out by her frown." Eventually Russia became extremely dangerous and the young Tsarina with her cousins (1st and 6th) returned to the Sous Novian Empire alongside her entourage of guards; the Bolsheviks who had come to despise the House of Romanova and the Russian Empire called for the deaths of Tsarina Alice, her cousins (Princess Maria Angelica and Princess Alix), and the rest of her immediate/extended family. All of these requests were refused and the Sous Novian Empire threatened them with destruction and execution by hanging for all of the Bolsheviks should they call for the death of any of their Tsarina`s again—at the time the Bolsheviks having no idea that Tsarina Alice was the heir apparent of the Sous Novian Empire, asked for her to be handed over; enraged and furious, Tsarina Alice was revealed as the heir apparent to the Sous Novian Imperial Throne and negotiations were swiftly ended. The Bolsheviks having thought that Tsarina Ariana was the heir apparent (as she was given the title of Archduchess) were thoroughly shocked and pushed the Empire to hand over their heir; only for the Sous Novian Empire to thoroughly thrash them and put them through the ringer for their request; over a hundred Bolsheviks died in the Sous Novian-Russo War with the other Empires/Kingdoms refraining from asking about the heir apparent of the Sous Novian Empire.

#### Death

In 16 July, 1937, nineteen years after the deaths of her immediate family, Tsarina Alice, Tsarina Katherine, and Tsarina Coraline visited Communist Russia, and were interred in Yekaterinburg until their deaths on 17 July, 1939 (two days after they had arrived in Russia). They were shot and bayoneted to death by Communist revolutionaries; tragically Tsarina Alice and the two younger siblings that had accompanied her to Russia (Tsarina Katherine and Tsarina Coraline) died in Yekaterinburg. She and her younger siblings would be the last and only Romanova's` to return to Russia while it was underneath Communist rule; they were canonized as saints in 2007.

### Return to the Sous Novian Empire

As the Tsarina and her two siblings (her only remaining sibling being Archduchess Ariana) were Sous Novian citizens, the bones were supposed to be ferried back to the Sous Novian Empire; Russian (now a Communist nation) refused to comply to the requests and the Empire recovered the bones of the Tsarina and her two siblings as well as the acidified remains of the Tsar and their children. These remains were then ferried home to Sous Novia.