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Will DNA test solve Habsburg imperial mystery?
BBC News
29 December 2016
A Czech DNA expert is carrying out tests on clothes belonging to the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. The tests should provide a definitive answer to an explosive claim that has fascinated readers for almost a century. Was Masaryk – champion of Slav rights and father of the Czechoslovak state – the illegitimate son of the Austro-Hungarian emperor?