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'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.

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