I disagree. Grand Duke Cyril had the support of the army, he was popular with the people too. When the reds got to Finland, they actually left Cyril and Ducky alone because they respected them. Kerensky was a big supporter of theirs, purely because they'd both tried to make the Tsar and Tsarina see sense. Ducky even went so far as to demand that the Tsarina got out of politics to Alix's face. Cyril said he wanted to work with the provisional government (hence the meeting he's always criticised for) and I think had they been allowed to shine a little earlier, Cyril would have been the ideal Tsar to carry the dynasty on. Yes they lived in luxury, name me a Romanov that didn't (even Ella had special comforts in her convent) but to me, Cyril and Ducky seem like they actually cared about Russia and not just the monarchy.