The Romanoffs and the Birth of a Boy

Four daughters grew up loving and loved by their parents. They also shared an odd upbringing defined by spartan luxury. The girls slept on camp beds with no pillows. There was little decoration or ornamentation in their rooms, and they started each day with a freezing cold bath. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the royal houses of europe were rife with hemophelia thanks to their shared link to queen victoria who was known as the grandmother of europe.