The House of Romanov is the ruling house of the Russian Empire and its guberniyas. It attained this position when one of its members, Mikhail Fyodorovich, seized the throne of the autocratic Tsardom of Russia, and holds it to this day. For a short time it was the ruling house of Alyeska and Mexique, and currently, the second in line to the throne of Russia, Anastasia, is married to Harald, the Crown Prince of Scandinavia.