I never did get a clear answer as to whether this has been performed on the living maternal collateral descendants of Queen Marie Antoinette.
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Which relatives took part in the test? It has been stated that the only one of Marie Antoinette's ten sisters to have a surviving matrilineal descent today is Archduchess Maria Carolina, who became the queen of Naples and Sicily.
Prince André of Bourbon-Parma, and his sister Anne (wife of Mihai al Romaniei) provided mitochondrial DNA samples for a comparison with the DNA of the heart of Louis XVII. André and Anne were descended in the female line from Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's older sister.
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