Word: czarevitch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sons and a carrier daughter. Alice's elder carrier daughter Irene married Prince Henry of Prussia; one hemophilic son, Waldemar, lived to 56, but another died at four; Alice's younger carrier daughter Alexandra married Czar Nicholas II, was murdered with him and their hemophilic son, the Czarevitch Alexis. Beatrice's daughter Victoria Eugenie married Alfonso XIII of Spain, had two affected sons, Alfonso and Gonzalo, who bled to death after accidents...
...something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs held some surprise inside-other eggs, or perhaps a hen, or a miniature of the czarevitch. Even when Czar Nicholas II was at the front in 1916 fighting the Germans, he took time out to telegraph instructions for what turned out to be the last eggs the imperial family ever received...