DNA Testing Confirmed the Ex-President Warren Harding's Love Child
After almost 100 years of speculation, a recent DNA testing confirmed that former US President Warren Harding had a child with his mistress Nan Britton.
The scandal that rocked the roaring twenties or simply 1920's has been finally answered. In sense Nan Britton who was rejected and shamed by the public and Harding's immediate family during her time, was vindicated. Dr. Peter Harding, a grandnephew of the president and one of those who instigated the DNA testing said that;
"This has been a family mystery since I became aware of it. There was no way to really resolve it. Back in the 1920s, there was only whether someone looked like someone else. It is totally wonderful to vindicate her... She published her book when women just got the vote and people weren't believing women over powerful men. Look how she survived this thing."
It was through the power of modern DNA testing that the scandal has been fully closed and Britton's claim fully authenticated, even though it took almost a century for the claim to be proven. The DNA result and test was provided by the website ancestry.com through their AncestryDNA service. An executive of the company, Stephen Baloglu, told BBC that;
"The family connection is definitive. It's truly amazing to imagine the power DNA can have in tracing one's family story and in this case rewriting history."
It was a daring move done by Dr. Harding, for he knew in the process some members of the family would be offended. Some friends within the family would be lost, and as to his words, he stated;
"Each family has their own set of beliefs and we had never discussed this in my family and in Jim's family. We both broke with our family ideology, and I feared losing friendships within the family. I was violating a lot of family rules to bring this about."
Harding who was first hesitant of the test being done was relieved when his family embraced the news. Harding and his family are in the process of planning a reunion together with their newly discovered family members. According to Harding, he stated that;
"There's a whole lot of children and great-grandchildren of President Harding we've never met. There was something wrong in my whole family mystery I wanted to fix - it left a whole other family out in the cold which was intolerable to me."
