'Links with the British royal family would eventually prove crucial': How DNA solved the 70-year mystery of what happened to the executed members of the last Russian imperial family
In this excerpt from "The Secrets of our DNA," geneticist Turi King examines how DNA was used to reveal the ultimate fate of the last members of the House of Romanov.
In 1917, the Russian Revolution led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and his family being exiled to a remote Siberian town. Plans to bring them to the UK were withdrawn due to concerns over ramifications. Following the Bolsheviks overthrowing the provisional government, the family was moved to Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg and executed in July 1918.
Their bodies were hidden and remained lost for almost a century until modern technology, with assistance from the British royal family, unraveled the mystery of their disappearance.
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