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TIL Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was first cousins with six other European monarchs: King George V (UK), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), King Haakon VII and Queen Maud (Norway), King Christian X (Denmark), and King Constantine I (Greece).

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