Tsar Nicholas II and King George V in German military uniforms, Berlin, 1913. 
This picture was taken during the wedding of the Kaiser’s daughter Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.
The wedding took place on 24 May 1913 in Berlin, and became the largest gathering of reigning monarchs in Germany since German unification in 1871, and one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began fourteen months later.
As always, thank you @northumbriana and @Ned_Donovan for helping me identify the uniforms and medals!
Tsar Nicholas II is in the uniform of the Westphalian Hussars and King George V in the uniform of the Rhenish Cuirassiers – their respective German regiments.
George and Nicholas were cousins, which explains why they looked so alike.
When the Tsar was overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, the British government offered political asylum to him and his family, but..
worsening conditions for the British people, and fears that revolution might come to the British Isles, led George to think that the presence of the Romanovs would be seen as inappropriate.
Despite the later claims of Lord Mountbatten of Burma that Prime Minister Lloyd George was opposed to the rescue of the Russian imperial family, the letters of Lord Stamfordham suggest that it was George V who opposed the idea against the advice of the government.
The Tsar and his immediate family remained in Russia, where they were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
George wrote in his diary: "It was a foul murder. I was devoted to Nicky, who was the kindest of men and thorough gentleman: loved his country and people."
George wrote in his diary: "It was a foul murder. I was devoted to Nicky, who was the kindest of men and thorough gentleman: loved his country and people."
The following year, Nicholas's mother Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) and other members of the extended Russian imperial family were rescued from Crimea by a British warship.
At the outbreak of the First World War the royal descendants of Queen Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom) and of Christian IX (King of Denmark) occupied the thrones of Denmark, Greece, Norway, Germany, Romania, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Prince Edward of Wales, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, and Prince Edward and the Prince of Wales (future King George V of England) with their sons at Barton Manor on the Isle of Wight, England. August 1909
