TSAR’S DAUGHTER
ANASTASIA’S CLAIM TO BE GRAND DUCHESS ACKNOWLEDGED BY GRAND DUKE BY Telegraph.—Press association (Copyright.) (Rec. February 9, 8.25 p.m.) London, February 8. The "Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent reports that the Grand Duke Andrew Vladimirovitch, first cousin of the late Tsar, had an affecting meeting in Paris with Anastasia, while she was en route to America, and authorised the Duke of Leuchtenberg to state that he acknowledged her as the Tsar’s youngest daughter. She is still unable to tell a connected story, and does not remember even recent events. It is pointed out that if the Romanoffs can prove in the law courts Anastasia’s relationship to the Tsar, they can claim for her the large sums which the Tsar placed in foreign banks. —Sydney “Sun” Cable. ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK (Rec. February 9, 9.15 p.m.) New York, February 9. The girl who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia arrived yesterday in Berengaria . with her attendants. It is said that she is the voungeSt daughter of Tsar Nicholas, and was supposed to be dead after the soldiers had killed the Royalists She survived and was married bv a young Red, and has been invited here to recover her interest in life bv Princess Xenia of Greece, who is her third cousin, if her claim is genuine.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 9
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217TSAR’S DAUGHTER Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 9
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