Spacedude50

Are any of the 61 monarchs known and/or accepted to be illegitimate? How many times was the line of succession broken? Is there any monarchy in Europe that doesn't have ties to the British throne?

Also why do you think the Royal family keeps getting in the way of the proper testing of the childrens bones (rumored to be the princes in the tower) that were found in White Chapel? There was a petition on it's way to getting enough signatures to trigger a parliamentary debate that was yanked down months before the cut off date and am curious what the monarchy stands to lose by finding out

Wikipedia section: BODIES - "A petition was started on the British government's "e-petition" website requesting that the bones be DNA-tested, but was closed months before its expected close date. If it had received 100,000 signatories a parliamentary debate would have been triggered. Pollard points out that even if modern DNA and carbon-dating proved the bones belonged to the princes, it would not prove who or what killed them"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower

"Buckingham Palace and then home secretary, Michael Howard, were consulted and both the Queen and the minister were in "full agreement" with the church authorities that matter should not be reopened."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/05/princes-in-tower-staying-under