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Prince Philip’s DNA samples helped unravel a hundred-year-old criminal mystery. Blood samples of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband in 2018 finally identified the family of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Philip was Tsarina Alexandra’s cousin – the British Queen Victoria was their common ancestor.
- On the night of July 16-17, 1918, the Bolsheviks murdered the family of Tsar Nicholas II, who had abdicated a year earlier
- For many years, there have been many rumors surrounding this murder. Including such that not all the children of the Tsar and Tsarina died then
- The final confirmation of the fact that the tsarist couple and their five children died in Yekaterinburg came in 2018.
- For this it was necessary, inter alia, a blood sample of Prince Philip, who died in 2021, husband of the British Queen Elizabeth II
- More current information can be found on the Onet homepage.
Murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
The murder of the tsarist family, carried out by the Bolsheviks on the night of July 16-17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg, is one of the most infamous murders in history. Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Aleksandra and their five children were murdered. Thus ended three centuries of the reign of the Romanov dynasty in Our Country.
The bodies of the murdered were then taken to another place, dismembered, poured with acid and thrown into the shafts of the former mine.
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The remains of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and three of their five children were not discovered until 1991. In fact, Alexander Avdonin, a local geologist, had found them over a decade earlier, but kept them a secret until the collapse of the Soviet Union. The two remaining children were not found until 2007, elsewhere.
Ultimately, the remains were only identified in 2018. The researchers, led by Dr. Peter Gill, an expert in genetics at the Forensic Science Service, analyzed samples from the nine bone groups found at the site and were able to extract the DNA.
Prince Philip’s DNA helps solve a century-old mystery
To confirm the identity, it was necessary, inter alia, blood sample of Prince Philip, who died in 2021, who was a relative of Tsarina Alexandra. The DNA match confirmed that all five children died with their parents. It also put an end to rumors that, among others, Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II.
‘To determine if the remains belonged to the Romanovs, we had to compare them with samples from verified relatives,’ said Dr Gill in 2018, now a professor of forensic genetics at the University of Oslo.
– We were lucky to receive blood samples from HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who is a direct descendant of Tsarina Alexandra. Samples were also obtained from Prince Fife and Princess Xenia Cheremeteff Sfiri, who are related to the tsar. The victims ‘remains matched their surviving royal relatives, thus it was confirmed that we had found the Romanov bones,’ added Gill.
- Scientists have examined the extent to which DNA determines our health
Our work on identifying the Tsar’s remains helped establish the UK’s national DNA database and accelerated the development of new forensic testing methods using DNA samples. They are now used by police around the world in forensic investigations and have been used to resolve thousands of criminal cases, Gill said.
Details of the investigation – described as one of the first cases of forensic DNA analysis being used to solve a historical case – were shown on the exhibition at the Science Museum in London on the occasion of the centenary of the case in 2018.
- The female reproductive age has increased by two years. This could have health implications
The exhibition “The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution” showed how the expertise of British forensic experts in genetic profiling helped to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the XNUMXth century.
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