Two names scratched into the windows at Fredensborg Palace belonged to a couple who never married. Dagmar had been engaged to the Russian heir. When she finally married the heir, he was a different man.
Alexandra was sixteen when she married the emperor's brother. Her first royal match had failed over religion. This time she would keep her faith and leave Russia.
She was thrown backwards by two violent jolts, and the dining room of the imperial train ceased to exist. Her husband survived. Her five children survived. More than twenty of the people travelling with them did not.