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Starting in 1603, England and Scotland were ruled in a personal union under the Scottish House of Stuart. The two countries were legally merged in 1707, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain. Since then, 12 monarchs have ruled Great Britain.

While all 12 monarchs since 1707 have been related, there have been three main ruling houses. The first, the House of Stuart, ended with Queen Anne in 1714, who outlived all five of her children. Her second cousin King George I succeeded to the throne as a member of the House of Hanover.

A woman who, like Queen Charlotte, married into the royal family. In Queen Charlotte, Princess Augusta is the mother of King George and the wife of the late Prince Frederick, who died before ever ascending the throne.

The head of the Bridgerton family in the Regency era. The first child of Viscount Edmund and Viscountess Violet Bridgerton and devoted husband of Viscountess Kate Bridgerton, ne Sharma. A man who loves his wife so ferverntly, he does not believe marriage is hard work. The couple now awaits the arrival of their first child.

The second child of Viscount Edmund and Viscountess Violet Bridgerton. A soulful artist with an appetite for merrymaking, Benedict will step into the marriage mart during the upcoming social season. Could a certain Lady in Silver be the one drawing him there?

On the night of July 16, 1918, a Bolshevik assassination squad executed Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children, putting an end to the Romanov family dynasty that had ruled Russia for more than three centuries.

So do a handful of imposters. Since 1918, people all over the world have come forward claiming to be the young crown prince, Alexei, or one of his four sisters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. So who are the real Romanovs?

Maria Vladimirovna is the most widely acknowledged pretender to the throne of Russia. This great-great-granddaughter of Alexander II, who was Emperor of Russia until his assassination in 1881, now lives in Spain. Her father, Vladimir Kirillovich, was born in exile in Finland in 1917, and from 1938 claimed to be head of the Russian imperial family. When Grand Duke Vladimir died in 1992, his daughter succeeded him in this claim, and calls her son, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, the heir apparent. However, Maria Vladimirovna has never belonged to the Romanov Family Association, founded in 1979 to unite descendants, because its members include non-dynastic Romanovs (those whose ancestors married outside the dynasty), whom she and her supporters believe do not have a legitimate claim to the throne.

The husband of Queen Elizabeth II is a grandnephew of the last czarina, Alexandra, as well as a great-great-grandson of Nicholas I. His two-part Romanov connection means that his son Prince Charles and his grandsons, Princes William and Harry, are all Romanov relatives. In 1993, after the unmarked graves believed to contain the remains of Nicholas II, Alexandra and three of their daughters were exhumed, Prince Philip even offered a blood sample to scientists seeking to identify the remains. His mitochondrial DNA matched that of the bodies believed to be those of Alexandra and the three girls, helping to confirm their identity.

The great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Nicholas I is a TV and movie actress, and has collaborated with the jewelry company Damiani on a Romanov Collection line, showcasing the name and mystique of her famous family.

Deliberate misinformation from the new Bolshevik regime, combined with the fact that no bodies were found for decades, fueled persistent rumors of survivors among the royal family. Here are the most intriguing imposters to the Romanov name.

Dozens of women claimed to be the youngest Romanov princess, Anastasia, but the most famous was Anna Anderson, who surfaced in 1920 in a German mental hospital after jumping off a Berlin bridge. Anderson stuck to her claim, even after evidence surfaced to suggest she was in fact a Polish woman named Franziska Schanzkowska. When she died in 1984 in Charlottesville, Virginia, her death certificate recorded the name, birthdate and birthplace of the Russian princess. Later analysis of her DNA matched her with a descendant of Schanzkowska, not the Russian royals.

A Polish intelligence officer, he worked as a spy for the Soviet Union but ended up passing information to the CIA, helping to expose KGB mules inside Western governments and intelligence agencies. When he defected to the U.S. in 1961, Goleniewski told his CIA debriefers that he was actually Alexei, the young czarevich thought to have been killed with his family in 1918. Though he gave his age as 18 years younger than Alexei would have been, and doctors could not confirm that he had hemophilia, like Alexei had, Goleniewski continued to claim his Romanov identity until he died in 1993.

Sarah Pruitt is a writer and editor based in seacoast New Hampshire. She has been a frequent contributor to History.com since 2005, and is the author of Breaking History: Vanished! (Lyons Press, 2017), which chronicles some of history's most famous disappearances.

This image depicts the family tree of the royal house of Hanover, officially known as the House of Brunswick-Lneburg, Hanover line, which reigned over Britain for a remarkable 187 years, from 1714 to 1901. The ascension of the Hanoverians to the British throne was an unexpected turn of events, as their first king, George Louis, the Elector of Hanover (also known as George I of Great Britain), was initially 52nd in line to the throne in 1714. Nevertheless, George I, the nearest Protestant candidate according to the Act of Settlement, became the first monarch of the Hanoverian dynasty. The lineage continued with five more monarchs until 1901 when Queen Victoria was succeeded by Edward VII from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (later renamed the House of Windsor in 1917).

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The Royal House of Habsburg, one of the most powerful dynasties of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, reigned over much of Europe for centuries. But genetic inheritance and the perils of inbreeding may explain their demise.

Beginning in the early 12th century, they quickly expanded their realm. They did this through a series of strategically executed marriages, from the mountains of Switzerland to a territory that included swaths of Austria, Hungary, Italy, France, and Spain. The Spanish branch of the Habsburg dynasty helped create an empire that reached its apex in the 16th and 17th centuries. They controlled land from the Philippines to the Americas.

By the end of the 17th century, the results of their marital practices had become apparent. Family members had distinctive protruding lips, a high rate of infant mortality and a host of other health problems.

From 1516 to 1700, it has been estimated that over 80% of marriages within the Spanish branch of the Habsburg dynasty were consanguineous. In other words, they were marriages between close blood relatives. These unions often took the form of marriages between first cousins, double-first cousins, and uncles/nieces. Infant and child mortality rose to 50% among Spanish Habsburgs, much higher than the average for the period.

However, there has been little scientific research for all the speculation and anecdotal evidence of the negative impact of inbreeding on the House of Habsburg. So, there is no hard evidence of whether inbreeding actually played a role in the demise of the Hapsburg line. The authors of this study sought to achieve this goal by examining genealogical information. To do that, they looked at family pedigrees for the eight royal families connected with the Habsburg dynasty.

They analyzed the family pedigrees of over 3,000 individuals spanning 16 generations. They then used this information to calculate the inbreeding coefficient for each family member. The inbreeding coefficient is simply a measure of the chance that someone will receive identical genes from both parents.

23andMe, at the forefront of personal genetics, provides individuals with access to this valuable information. While rooted in the past, the Habsburg narrative serves as a compelling reminder of the power of genetics in shaping health outcomes.

This family tree details nine generations of the Adams family, including both the ancestors and descendants of John and Abigail Adams. It is not comprehensive; some individuals have been excluded in order to streamline the tree for easier viewing.

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King George V and his wife Mary of Teck had six children together between 1894 and 1905. One of their children didn't survive into adulthood. Prince John, the baby of the family, had severe epilepsy and a learning disability. He died in 1919 at the age of 13.

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