Monday, July 27, 2009

Xenia bars "Anastasia"

July 27, 1929


The Los Angeles Times reports exclusively today that "the great door of the palatial mansion" in Oyster Bay on Long Island, belonging to Princess Xenia of Russia, is "closed forever," to Mme Tchaikowsky, the mystery woman who has claimed to be Xenia's cousin, Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.
(It is believe that Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, was killed, with her parents and siblings, by the Bolsheviks, in July 1918.)
Anastasia lived with Princess Xenia and her husband, Billy Leeds, for nine months. Princess Xenia released a statement to the media:
"The Princess Anastasia left here several days ago. She will not return. Princess Xenia has no comment to make. She does not know where the Princess Anastasia went."
For some months, Princess Xenia has "quietly championed" the woman's "claim to the Russian throne."

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