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From: William Addams Reitwiesner <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] A message from a skeptic
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:18:29 -0500


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>===== begin text of Richard Pence's message posted to soc.genealogy.methods:

>The author said that Prince Philip was a "descendant" of the last
>Czar of Russia (I don't think so, am I wrong?)

Richard, you're sort of right -- Philip *is* a descendant of the last Czar
of Russia, but that last Czar was Peter the Great, who changed his title
from Czar to Emperor ("Imperator" in Russian) on 20 October/2 November
1721. The author of that article used the wrong title for Nicholas II.

The last Russian Emperor from whom Prince Philip descends is Nicholas I,
who died in 1855.


William Addams Reitwiesner


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