exhumation Archives - History of Royal Women

Maria Theresa of Austria’s exhumation order

September 10, 2017 Moniek Bloks 0

Maria Theresa was very much her father’s daughter and one of the things she inherited from him was her fascination concerning the exhumation of her distant ancestors. The remains of Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of the Romans, Leopold the Glorious, Duke of Austria and his wife, Catherine of Savoy, Henry the Friendly and his wife, [read more]

Alexandra and Nicolas II’s remains exhumed for DNA testing

September 23, 2015 Moniek Bloks 0

Yesterday the bodies of Nicolas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, the last emperor and empress of Russia, were exhumed to do DNA-testing on the bodies. The DNA taken will be used to confirm the identities of the last two missing children, Maria and Alexei. The two have been previously identified but subsequent DNA testing is necessary [read more]