Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia, and thus a second cousin once removed of Tsar Nicholas II, arrived at Manhattan, last week, from a Caribbean cruise. To prying reporters she confirmed the fact that she has now undertaken the protection of that young woman who recently landed at Manhattan, calling herself the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas (TIME, Feb. 20). Discreet, Mrs. Leeds did not reveal the hidden whereabouts in the U. S. of this young woman, who she appears to believe is her third cousin...
...attendant donned one of those clever rubber masks and blew up the nose to a grotesque, bulbous protuberance, Her Majesty reached for her purse. Perhaps she bought the "Nosey Parker'' to entertain her small and only granddaughter, "Baby Betty," 22 months old, daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York...
Shortly it was announced that the young woman had "flat feet." So.had the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Gradually a number of miscellaneous retainers of the Tsaral family visited the young woman, some affirming and others denying that she is Anastasia...
Finally there arrived in Berlin from Copenhagen the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Nicholas II. Having visited the young woman, the Grand Duchess Olga formed an opinion which she still holds and was at pains to cable to Manhattan last week. It is summed up by the ejaculation, "Impostor!" At Copenhagen this view is known to be held by the 80-year-old Dowager Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (TIME, March 28, 1927), consort of the late Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas...
...Anastasia." No imperial personage would be more welcome in the U. S. than Her Imperial Highness, Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest and most vivacious daughter of the last murdered Tsar of all the Russias. Unfortunately a young woman who landed from the Berengaria, last week, claiming to be Anastasia, was believed to be almost certainly an impostor...