Outside of the domestic scandals that rocked the royals during the 1990s, "The Crown" also highlights a number of important events like the Queen and Prince Philip's trip to Russia in 1994, as well as the history of the Romanovs' relationship with the royal family. The episode "Ipatiev House" gives viewers a brief backstory of how King George V, a cousin of Czar Nicholas II, did not grant either him or the entire Romanov family asylum after he was overthrown during the Russian Revolution in 1917, according to Vogue. The family was brutally executed in Ipatiev House on 17 July, 1918, and their remains were burned, leaving little behind.
By 1991, several unidentified bodies were discovered in Ekaterinburg, where the Romanovs were murdered. At the time, Russian President Boris Yeltsin had the bodies exhumed, and Prince Philip did, in fact, provide a DNA sample to help identify some of the Romanov family members, as he shared ancestry with the Romanovs through Queen Victoria. "Prince Philip contributed a blood sample, and his DNA was compared to that of the remains and of other family members. This allowed researchers to confirm virtually beyond a doubt that the bodies were indeed those of the murdered Romanovs," My Heritage notes.