Quote from Greg King about the manuscript
But again...I'd just add that a lot of people still have questions, and I hope that we are able to address. I think (I could be wrong, but this is my perception) that those who still believe that AA was Anastasia are troubled by trying to reconcile the DNA evidence with what we all-everyone-has been led to believe is a mountain of positive evidence on the other side favoring her claim. That's why I can't be too hard on people-because they are assuming in good faith that the AA story passed down to history is so convincing. The most important thing I hope our book will do is to show that almost nothing was convincing and most of what has been said to be evidence in her favor crumbles on close examination. This is the difference between saying, "The DNA says she was FS" and "The DNA says she was FS, now how do you explain everything else in her favor?" The point is, there just isn't much to constitute "evidence" when one gets back to the original documentation and sources. But I understand some people being skeptical because, no matter what they have read on the case, most haven't had the benefit of starting at the beginning of the tale and seeing how thin the evidence in her favor was. I was shocked to find that almost everything I had believed to be true about the case-and evidence in her favor-was actually not correct or plagued with problems. Those discoveries then gave us a sound basis for answering our own outstanding questions-and I hope those of everyone else-so that in the end people can know that AA was Franziska not merely because the DNA says so, but also because of new information and details that help fill in how she managed to seem so convincing.
