It's only a telegram!
How will you try to explain away the fact that the Palace of King Carl Gustav in Sweden had done exactly the same thing... sending a thank you card to the very same person -- addressed once again to "Alexei Nicolaievich" -- three years later?
Yes, it is
only a telegram. Isn't that the very point, though? Are you telling us that the Windsors recognized Tammet as the son of Nicholas II, yet the Tammet family has no record of any other contact from the British royal family whatsoever? Over all the years, that single, generic, one-sentence telegram was the
only written correspondence that ever passed from the Windsors to their Romanov cousins?
And how will I "explain away" the great mystery that "the Palace of King Carl Gustav" did exactly the same thing? Why, by the simplest explanation of all. Both Buckingham Palace and the Swedish palace received thousands of congratulatory telegrams for these royal weddings. Their secretariats set up automated mailing lists by copying the addresses on the incoming telegrams. After the weddings, a generic response was matched to this mailing list and the thousands of acknowledgements were sent out. It's the universal routine in every public relations operation, be it in industry, politics, or statecraft.
There are moments when I am appalled at just how stupid and gullible you think people on this site are. But then I remember that your mission is to generate buzz for a story that is fighting an uphill battle with facts and logic, so I guess your hands are kind of tied.
You are quite right to note that the scientists and their bosses who had done the Anderson comparison tests at the FSS in Britain in 1994 are also among the very same people who are still withholding the Tammet result to this day.
Curious, isn't it? :-)
Curious? Not in the least . . . unless you're going out of your way to find a consipiracy answer to a question that has a more logical and more obvious answer.
Anna Anderson was a story with a world-wide following. Books had been written and movies made about her story. The results of the Anna Anderson tests were awaited by the international press . . . and those results were duly released.
But who, other than the Tammet family and you, was following the Heino Alexei Tammet-Romanov story? If his DNA matched, the story would have broken like a thunder clap over the world's press wires. If it didn't, there was no story of any interest. And, if it didn't match, why announce to the press that the labs had also looked at the DNA of a virtually unknown claimant? It would just invite other con artists or deluded individuals to come out of the woodwork to clamor to have their samples tested.
It wouldn't matter that they knew the DNA wouldn't match. Part of this type of con game is first to generate as much press and other buzz as possible by any means possible. Then, once the story gets traction, improvise the necessary details as events unfold. This is why there is almost always a conspiracy theory linked to these ruses. Sooner or later, logic and hard facts will run the claimant into a dead end. A conspiracy theory -- replete with dark dealings by mysterious parties with murky motives -- is the indispensible way around this roadblock.
Anna Anderson's DNA didn't match? No problem. The DNA sample was switched at the hospital.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna refuted her claim to be Anastasia? No problem. There was a secret Romanov fortune she was protecting.
Heino Tammet's DNA didn't match? No problem. The results are being withheld from the world by scientists who are muzzled by some mysterious machinations of British dynastic politics.
No such motive for the Windsors to hide the results is apparent? No problem. That's what conspiracy theories are for.
Beautiful, isn't it?