Scientists studied human bones found on a construction site for hints to a missing persons' case which was already gone 322 years ago at a lab near Hannover, Germany. Not merely any missing human bones, or merely any missing persons' case but the late wife of the King of England, whom he locked up for 30 years, together with a handsome Swedish who disappeared in 1694 at the center.

During the renovation of Leine Castle in Hannover , the construction workers found the remains, the former seat of the Hannoverian kings and home to Duke Georg Ludwig of Brunswick- Lüneburg, who was later named King George I of England and his wife, Sophia Dorothea, in the 17th and early 18th centuries, according to NBC News.

At 16, Sophia Dorothea married the future king in 1682 who was her cousin. Since it was an arranged marriage she was unhappy. While Georg disregarded his wife and preferred to spend and be with his mistresses, Sophia's attention turned to Count Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck for affection.

Håkan Håkansson, an associate professor of the history of ideas and science at Lund University, said that what they did was of course dangerous and that it all ended badly, but he supposed they had persons they trusted who handed the mail to each other.

On 1694, they agreed to flee together on summer, however their secret was disclosed. Count Philipp was gone on a late night at their abode where they used to meet. It lingered then, that count Philipp was killed on the mandate of the retaliating Duke Georg. Royal rumors loitered that the count's body thrown in river or buried in the walls of the castle. Philipp's corpse was not found then, as stated on the Top News Today.

Meanwhile, at 28, Sophia Dorothea was locked up in the Castle of Ahlden, after Georg divorced her. She was kept behind closed doors and was apart from her children for 30 years. When Georg became King George I of England on 1714, his investiture was not taken well for his people regarded him as a German intruder for declining to learn English.

Kate Williams, a professor and a specialist in royal history at the University of Reading in England iterated that George I was not a likeable man. In addition, the professor described King George as distant, cold and often cruel. Furthermore, Williams said it was certain, that a lot of gossip said he did it, and it was him behind the order. The professor added that it gives the impression that it could have been so.

But when asked if there was any proof, scientists examining the bones weren't able to determine the cause of death. Birgit Gorsskopf, an anthropologist at the University of Göttingen, stressed out that most of the bones were broken and not very well preserved.

However, the human bones discovered under the castle, produced DNA that could be used and tested on the count's living descendants.

When the result of the the tests sift out, it would draw a prime answer to a secret a king have buried to the grave for centuries.