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TIL Princess Elisabeth of Hesse was royal in England, Russia and Germany. She and her husband were murdered by Russian Revolutionaries. Her body was buried in Russia, then moved to Beijing, China and is now buried in a Russian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem.

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