The Washington Post, October 18th, 1994
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Russia today for a visit that draws a symbolic close to seven decades of royal frostiness toward Russia over the assassination of Czar Nicholas II, the queen's distant cousin, whose execution with his family by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918 ended the monarchy here. The royal visit, which British officials consider one of the queen's most important foreign trips, was overshadowed before it began by a furor in England over a new biography of Prince Charles, the queen's son and heir. Aides traveling with the queen spent much of today playing down the co...
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