A bride for Alexei

[AristoCat]

I think Alexei would have still been under the domineering influence of his mother and Alix would have seen any future wife as a threat to her control over the way the household was run, along with any power over the Russian government. She would have put up a fight just to have any of her girls married off, much less her only son.

[Vasillisos Markos]

But Alix would have had to see Alexei marry someday, because how else would he perpetuate the Romanov dynasty? I suspect that had he lived to maturity, he would have married despite his mother's wishes if she was opposed to his choice.

[AristoCat]

Hehe, imagine the catfights between Alexei's choice and his mother if there was a dislike between the two? :)