In Search of a Lost Princess

Popular belief has it that Anastasia Romanov escaped the assassination when the rest of the Imperial Family was murdered during the Russian Revolution.

The grandchildren of a South African woman claimed that their deceased grandmother was the Grand Duchess of Russia. She was presumed to be Anastasia. They claimed she escaped and lived out her life in fear and hiding as a commoner in South Africa.

After exhuming the woman's remains from a secret grave, we took the remains to four universities including Oxford to prove their claim. Astonishingly the results concluded that is was not Anastasia who escaped the revolutionaries' bullets but her sister Maria.

Category:

• Entertainment
• Documentary
• Learning & Education

Directed by:

• Mike Searle

Produced by:

• Mike Searle

Written by:

• Mike Searle

Tags:

• Anastasia Romanov
• Russia
• Tzar
• Tsar
• South Africa
• Oxford University
• forensics
• forensic investigation
• mystery
• Manchester University
• Louis Duval
• science
• Sheffield University
• Monash University
• Australia
• Prof Brian Sykes
• DNA
• Durban

[Fred420ist]

A 13 minute political commercial?

[StaceyLately]

no fing way she was the grand dutchess. I can tell just by looking at the picture. Just another case of a looney toon woman/family in search of their 15 minutes. Let them rest in peace.

[rcarmes1941]

@ITouchHot The Russian court spoke French and English not Russian and she was Marie!!!!!!!!! Read your history

[journey80s]

August 23, 2007, a Russian archaeologist announced the discovery of two skeletons at a bonfire site near Yekaterinburg. DNA testing by multiple international laboratories confirmed that the remains belong to the Tsarevich Alexei and to one of his sisters, proving conclusively that all family members, including Anastasia, died in 1918. Sad, but this is what I read :(

[Bedsorian]

u no what i think happend to the 2 missing bodys? i think the 2 bodys were still alive and probally one of the men that was shooting felt sorry and took them away in another cart with must have been anastasha and alexi or maria

[Bedsorian]

@nataliecat they probally sat up becuase they were so sceard and could not hold in there hear peobally?

[Bedsorian]

if i was one of them i would pretend to be dead i guess that is the onloy way to survie longer then if i was lucky i would roll of the cart

[nataliecat190]

why would they sit up and scream?! why wouldn't they just pretend to be dead?? stupid girls... =[

[ITouchHot]

@rcarmes1941 cuz shes Russian and that is how they say that name over there... Masha or MAria

[rcarmes1941]

Why do people call her "Maria"???????? Her name was Marie, the French spelling and pronunciation, why can't they get it correct????????? MARIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!