ROMANOFF ROMANCE
GRAND DUCHESS CLAIMANT CZAR’S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, SAVED FROM THE CARNAGE. (United Press Assn. Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, February .8 A girl who claims that she is the Grand Duchess Aaajcasia, arrived yesterday in the Berengaria, with attendants. It is said that she is : the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas, and was supposed to be dead after .the soldiers killed the Royalists. She survived, was married to a young Red, and has been invited here, to recover interest in life, by Princess Xenia of Greece, who is her third cousin—if the claim is genuine.—A. and N.Z. AFFECTING MEETING KINSHIP (ACKNOWLEDGED. (Received 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, February 9.: The Berlin correspondent of the ‘‘Daily Mail” reports that Grand Duke Andrew Vladimirovitch, first cousin of the Czar, had an affecting meeting in Paris with the so-called Grand Duchess while she was cn route to America, and authorised Dske Leuchtenberg to say that he acknowledges her as the Czar’s youngest daughter. She is still unable to tell, a connected story, and does not rememr ber even recent events. It is pointed out that if the Romanoffs can prove in the tew courts Anastasia’s relationship to the Czar, they can claim for her large sums- which the Czar placed in foreign banks.—A. and N.Z. • ■: ~
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Northern Advocate, 10 February 1928, Page 5
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