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Old 06-08-2004, 11:10 PM   #18
bluesdave
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Re: Telltale Heart Deals Blow to Pretender to a Throne

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Originally posted by ckigar
but.. since the DNA from this heart doesn't line up with his... it mustn't be the real thing...
You didn't read the article very carefully, did you? It says that Mr. de Bourbon's lineage is in dispute, not the heart. The last paragraph says that a DNA comparison of a strand of Marie Antoinette's hair matched the heart:

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Four years ago, DNA from a sliver of the withered heart, now gnarled and dry as a piece of wood, was found to match that from a locket of Marie Antoinette's hair, satisfying many scholars that it belonged to Louis XVII.
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