There are quite a few unusual stories that are connected with children from royal families.
Some secrets have already been solved thanks to the efforts of archaeologists and modern technology, and some puzzles still excite the minds of scientists.
Consider the 10 most interesting stories that are associated with the children of the monarchs.
10. Anastasia Romanova
The secret of this daughter of Nicholas II is one of the most mysterious stories that are associated with persons of royal blood.
Specialists did not identify her remains in the mass grave in which the executed members of the royal family were.
We conducted several genetic tests, after which it turned out that Anastasia was not there.
The fate of the girl remained unknown, and a lot of impostors appeared, posing as the royal daughter.
The mysterious Anna Anderson became one of the most famous: this woman looked very much like Anastasia and suffered from a deep mental disorder.
9. The child of Caesar and Cleopatra
The son of Cleopatra and Caesar was born 3 years before the death of his father. The boy lived only to 17 years.
He was the ruler of Egypt with his mother, but for some reason, there was practically no information about him in official historical sources.
Perhaps Cleopatra wanted her children from Mark Anthony to become rulers, but there is no evidence of this.
When Little Caesar was in his teens, he was made a pawn in the fight for the throne between Octavian, Julius Caesar's nephew, and Mark Anthony. Both applicants sought to rule in Rome and did not want to give in to anyone.
When Octavian achieved his goal, Caesar's son disappeared.
8. Saint Dmitry
Everyone knows that the son of Ivan the Terrible died at the hands of his father. Some time after this event, the king’s wife gave him another son, Dmitry.
When the king died, the boy was 2 years old. After the death of Ivan the Terrible, Fedor I, who was the elder half-brother of the king’s son, became the ruler.
The new king was very painful, he had no heirs, so Dmitry became the next contender for the reign.
At the end of XVI, the heir suddenly died, and the circumstances of his death were very mysterious.
The prince was 9 years old. The boy had an attack, and at that moment he was holding a knife in his hands. Dmitry stabbed himself. It is believed that the prince was killed.
7. Relatives of Amenhotep III
Excavating in Thebes, archaeologists discovered a massive ancient burial.
The royal bloodshed from Egypt rested there. There is practically no information about them. It is only known that in this tomb there were exclusively girls from the royal family and women who enjoyed their location at court.
One of the girls, for example, was the sister of Amenhotep III, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Specialists can not explain the fact that during the reign of just one pharaoh, so many princesses died.
6. Secret descendant of Queen Victoria
There are many rumors surrounding Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, but they are unproven.
The princess was loving, attractive and rebellious.
Lucinda Hoxley, a biographer, is sure that Louise had an illegitimate child from Walter Stirling, one of the servants. He was fired a few months after the start of his service, which was very strange for the royal family.
Louise's son was born when she was still in her teens. He was named Henry. The child became a graduate of Queen Victoria’s doctor.
5. Menelik
Menelik was the child of Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. He met his father in Jerusalem when he was already an adult.
Menelik could become the heir to Solomon, but he betrayed his father and stole one of the greatest shrines, the Ark of the Covenant. After that, the shrine was in Ethiopia.
It was not possible to find out whether Menelik really existed in the world.
4. Prince Arthur of Wales
At the end of the 15th century, a prince was born in England who received a name in honor of Camelot Arthur, the famous ruler.
When the prince married the daughter of the Spanish kings, Catherine of Aragon, he was only 15 years old.
This marriage was supposed to improve relations between England and Spain, but for a long time it did not exist.
A few months after the wedding, Prince Arthur died. No one knows why this happened. The second husband of Catherine was the younger brother of the deceased prince.
3. Paul I
Catherine the Great in the middle of the XVIII century gave birth to a son Paul. Peter III, the wife of the empress, was more interested in his secret beloved and soldiers for playing war games, so many believe that Pavel was the son of officer Sergei Saltykov.
Peter III was poisoned when the boy was only 8 years old. Later, Paul said that he did not doubt Catherine’s participation in this crime.
The empress believed that her son would not be a good ruler. She wanted her grandson Alexander to become king. However, the empress suffered a stroke and she died. After this, Paul became the ruler.
Catherine was not mistaken: the new king was eccentric and eccentric. A few years later, the ruler was killed, and many believed that his son was involved in this.
2. The first son of Pharaoh Ramses II
Historians believe that the heir to Ramses II was called Amonherhepechef. During the excavations, a large number of burials and murals were discovered that depicted the life of the pharaoh and members of his family.
Archaeologists have found banks containing the organs of the firstborn of Ramses II, as well as a broken skull and skeleton of the alleged heir.
Amonherkhepechef took part in hostilities, and his skull was broken with a mace during the battle. A DNA test cannot be performed because the tissues have completely decomposed.
1. The Missing Child of Marie Antoinette
Two centuries ago, no one knew about the fate of Louis XVII, the child of the French ruler Marie Antoinette.
The eight-year-old boy was called the uncrowned king. Louis's parents were executed, and he himself was imprisoned.
It is believed that after 2 years the prince was stolen, and in his place there was a completely extraneous dead child.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a DNA test was performed: the heart of the twin who died in prison was preserved by the autopsy doctor. It turned out that it belongs to the real prince.
Louis was not stolen at all: he fell ill with tuberculosis and died in prison.