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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...
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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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