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It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

— Kathryn Harrison

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.

— Saul David

I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

— Kathryn Harrison

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

— Livy

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

— Theodor Mommsen

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

— Morrissey

People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.

— John Lydon

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

— Edward VIII

✗Opposing Perspectives

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

— Mencius

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

— Mary Antin

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

— Walter Bagehot