"When God decides that the time has come for me to get better, then it will happen, but not before, and they would do well to behave properly so that the time may truly come," by 1909 Empress Alexandra Feodorovna felt…
On the one hand, the position is correct and profound; on the other, after such pronouncements one cannot help thinking: "what if Nicholas really would have been better off with Mathilde?"
Ps I rather like the formula in general, and I sometimes blackmail my own parents in the same way, but I cannot imagine my mother or father commenting on our relationship like that. All in all, it is as well that I am not heir to the throne
