[blam]

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[eccentric]

blood taken from descendants of the tsar, including Britain's Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

? descended from who? "THE Czar"? or a previous Czar?

So where is the family? hiding in Argentina?

[FairOpinion]

"July 14, 2004 — An American scientific team has disputed what was thought to be the definitive identification of the remains of the Russian royal family, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, London's Daily Telegraph said Monday."

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[happygrl]

The original work on identifying the Czar and his family was based, as I remember, on the matching of skull to photographs, overlaying them and finding that they matched.

I don't remember whether there was actually any DNA tests performed before they were declared to be that of the Czar and his family.

Do you know ?

[SunkenCiv]

The newspaper quoted Knight as saying, "we have uncovered irregularities and inconsistencies (and very strange goings-on) in the case," and that the results claimed by Gill were "essentially impossible." ...Knight conceded that he had carried out his research on behalf of the Russian Expert Commission Abroad, a group of scholars that disputes the conclusion that the bones found in Yekaterinburg in 1991 belonged to the royal family.

Fascinating, but not surprising. Slipshod work and fraud is endemic to genetic "studies".

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[struwwelpeter]

I guess Yekaterinburg must have lots of well-dressed corpses - with the imperial family's heirloom jewelry sewn into their underwear - scattered about town. DNA just couldn't be wrong.

Or conversely - could some assumptions of the British royals' lineage be in error?