![]() ![]() The British government stood by its ally (to Milyukov’s huge relief) but previously unseen documents confirm that, contrary to general thinking, it was no more eager to have the Romanovs in Britain than King George, who within two weeks of the offer was panicking and wished that it had never been sent. It was days before a response came from David Lloyd George’s government, making a somewhat grudging offer of asylum – and it did so, very specifi-cally, for the duration of war only. ![]() He pressed the British government hard, via its ambassador to Petrograd, Sir George Buchanan, to offer asylum. It was in fact Pavel Milyukov, the foreign minister of the Provisional Government, who made the first move. And while George might instinctively have wished to help his royal relatives, his government made no voluntary offer. It was not in the king’s gift, as a constitutional monarch, to do so. One of the most common misconceptions in the Romanov story is that King George V himself offered them asylum. A common misconception is that King George V offered the Romanovs asylum. ![]()
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