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Archaeologists are DNA testing some bones they've found to see if they might be the remains of Richard III. Are there any other members of the Royal Family....

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seeker · 12/09/2012 13:19

where DNA testing might produce interesting results?

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 12/09/2012 22:49

??? @ Linerunner? Hmm

LineRunner · 12/09/2012 22:40

This is about Harry, right?

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 12/09/2012 22:38

Im fairly sure it has been suggested that the bones thought to be the princes be DNA tested, so there must be a match.
Can men and women pass on matenal DNA, or is it just mother to daughter?
There is a constant familial link through to present day. If its either sex, then surely the DNA could be tested?

SorrelForbes · 12/09/2012 22:27

LaQueen - I read We Speak No Treason at the age of 14 and developed a huge crush on Richard which continues to this day Grin. I really must buy a new copy...

ALittleScatterOfRain · 12/09/2012 22:26

Just backing up a little (well, jumping forward in history) to the Queen Regnant bit, am I right in thinking that Anne Boleyn was actually crowned as a Queen Regnant rather than a Queen Consort?

kim147 · 12/09/2012 22:24

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LaQueen · 12/09/2012 22:24

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MattSmithIsMine · 12/09/2012 22:18

Are we strictly talking about dead people?

nipersvest · 12/09/2012 22:17

i went to bosworth last week with dd's class on a school trip. was a very interesting day out, the guides were good at explaining it all and got the kids to act out the battle.

EdithWeston · 12/09/2012 22:17

The DNA results are going to take ages - presumably as it is hard, though no longer impossible, to process remains so old to produce a useable sample. Once they have got that, it should be fairly straightforward but does indeed rest on an assumption that there is an unbroken matriarchal line in the family (I'm pretty sure it's the female line that they have to look for down the Xs). Any adopted children could invalidate the whole testing hypothesis.

TunipTheVegemal · 12/09/2012 22:15
LaQueen · 12/09/2012 22:13

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Themumsnot · 12/09/2012 22:13

You can't fight me, I'm a girl.

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 12/09/2012 22:11

Right you... OUTSIDE!

LaQueen · 12/09/2012 22:11

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Themumsnot · 12/09/2012 22:09

I'll buy your second explanation LeQ, but not the first one Grin

Themumsnot · 12/09/2012 22:09

Not buying it. They had disappeared. People were saying that they were dead. For two whole years. The simplest explanation is usually the true one.

LaQueen · 12/09/2012 22:07

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 12/09/2012 22:05

They could have been anywhere. Out of sight, out of mind.

LaQueen · 12/09/2012 22:04

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Themumsnot · 12/09/2012 22:03

So all of you who think 'Enery did it, how do you explain where the Princes were for the more than two years that elapsed between the last sighting of them and the Battle of Bosworth? Rumours that they had been done away with were rife, as Richard well knew, but yet he didn't produce them and nobody at all had seen them. That, to me, is the strongest evidence in favour of his guilt.

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 12/09/2012 22:00

No, there hadnt been a Queen Regnant, but there had been many women used as rallying points. Many powerful women, who caused lots of trouble, and the daughters of Edward IV had their mother behind them.
She had made many enemies, and wouldnt have left sanctuary unless her family was safe.

LaQueen · 12/09/2012 21:58

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 12/09/2012 21:55

Can see the MN version of the Battle of Bosworth brewing!......

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