ornamentedbeing:I am so happy that this is real. I love modern technology. DNA was extracted from a
ornamentedbeing:I am so happy that this is real. I love modern technology. DNA was extracted from a lock of Marie Antoinette’s hair that was snipped from her head as a child. Her DNA matched a sample taken from a heart believed to be from her son, King Louis XVII. 2) Heart shaped pendant locket with the hair of Marie Antoinette set under glass or rock-crystal with an inscribed card and mounted in a gold filigree frame. A small gold padlock is suspended from the base with a key on a chain attached to the suspension loop.I know which museum I’m going to when I get back to London. 3) The heart of Louis XVII, the 10-year-old heir to France’s throne who died in the Paris fortified Temple prison on June 8, 1795. The heart, that was cut from Louis XVII’s body following a tradition of keeping royal hearts separate from their bodies.4) The Lost Dauphin -- source link
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