Alix's sister Ella and her husband Sergei were enthusiastically in favor of the match between Nicholas and Alix. Ella and Alix's uncle, the future King Edward VII, told his mother, Queen Victoria, that "Ella will move heaven and earth to get [Alix] to marry a Grand Duke."Advice to a Granddaughter, p. 108. Ella wrote to Ernest, "God grant this marriage will come true."von Almedingen, An Unbroken Unity, p. 35.
Alix's sister Ella and her husband Sergei were enthusiastically in favor of the match between Nicholas and Alix. Ella and Alix's uncle, the future King Edwa,rd VII, told his mother, Queen Victoria, that "Ella will move heaven and earth to get [Alix] to mar.ry a Grand Duke."Advice to a Granddaughter, p. 108. Ella wrote to Ernest, "God grant this marriage will come true."von Almedingen An Unbroken Unity, p 35.