Dillards 49: Dull Dillards Dulling

[samurai_sarah]

14 minutes ago, Shadoewolf said:

I may look like a total dork here, but are the Romanov's the royal family that Danielle Steele used as background characters in Granny Dan? It's set in Russia, is about a ballerina who falls ill and falls in love with the royal doctor. The youngest royal Alexei has hemophilia, he has 2 (?) older sisters and they end up on house arrest at first and executed at the end? 

Totally forgot about that one. Alexei indeed had haemophilia, and he had 4 older sisters. After house arrest, the entire family was executed. But there were several people who claimed to be his older sister Anastasia, after the Russian revolution. IIRC correctly, her skeleton was missing from the main burial site, and only found later. Again, IIRC all of those claims were laid to rest after a skeleton was found close by, and DNA tests proved that none of the claimants could be Anastasia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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