Alexandra Fyodorovna
Ok, I'm watching Episode 11, why is she having crotch?(sp?)
You jump, I jump
Could you be a little more descriptive? I don't know what you mean.
shareI was watching that particular episode, and she's walking with a walking stick in one scene.
You jump, I jump
Oh, a crutch. It's been a while since I viewed the episode--episodes have reappeared on YouTube but I haven't gotten to her walking with a cane yet.
From Wikipedia:
"Alexandra's health was never robust and her frequent pregnancies exacerbated the situation. Without exception, however, her biographers, including Robert Massie, Carrolly Erickson, Greg King and Peter Kurth, ascribe the semi-invalidism of her later years to nervous exhaustion from obsessive worry over the fragile tsarevich. She spent most of her time in bed or reclining on a chaise in her boudoir or on a veranda. This immobility enabled her to avoid the social occasions that she found distasteful. Alexandra regularly took a herbal medicine known as Adonis Vernalis in order to regulate her pulse. She was constantly tired, slept badly and complained of swollen feet. She ate little, but never lost weight. She may have suffered from a very rare condition of high levels of the thyroid hormone, which can lead to atrial fibrillation"