The recent widow of a prominent Chicago banker, Anna Dollie Ledgerwood Matters, had brought a baby girl home from a visit to Canada and claimed that the child was her late husband's posthumous heir.

In spite of depictions in various dramatizaions, Maria Feodorovna never met Anna Anderson, the impostor who falsely claimed to be her murdered granddaughter Anastasia.

The 1986 NBC-TV miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, in which Olivia de Havilland portrays the Dowager Empress, represents the latter as considering a personal meeting with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

Duchess Anna of Prussia claimed Jülich-Cleves-Berg as the heir to the senior line, while Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg claimed Jülich-Cleves-Berg as Duke John William's eldest male heir.

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* In the 1950s, Anna Anderson claimed that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

Several women have falsely claimed to have been Anastasia, the most notorious of whom was Anna Anderson.

Anna Anderson was one of at least ten women who claimed to be Anastasia.

Charlottesville was also the home of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia and to have survived the massacre of the Russian Imperial Family.

Anna claimed that the marriage was a political union rather than one of love.

The 14th century Scottish chronicler John of Fordun even claimed that Mordred was the rightful heir to the throne of Britain, as Arthur was an illegitimate child ( in his account, Mordred was the legitimate son of Lot and Anna.

Anna Anderson ( 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984 ) was the best known of several impostors who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

** Anna Anderson ( 1896 – 1984 ), most well known of frauds who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov

Sarah Helen Whitman and Sarah Anna Lewis also claimed to have inspired the poem.

The group also claimed that in response, they received scribbled notes faxed back on letters that had been addressed to editor Anna Wintour stating, " Will you stop?

The Archduke of Austria, Ferdinand I of Habsburg, who was the brother of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, claimed the vacant Hungarian throne in right of his wife, Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, sister to the childless ( and thus heirless ) Louis II.

Anna Shown, John Shown's wife, claimed that Earp and Kennedy got her husband drunk and then threatened his life to persuade him to help.

Fedorov claimed he and tennis star Anna Kournikova were married in 2001.

However, the Republic of Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its border with Mexico, citing the Treaty of Velasco signed by Mexican President Santa Anna, who agreed to the Rio Grande border after losing the Battle of San Jacinto.

He rebuffed the advances of mystic Anna Schmidt, who claimed to be his divine partner.

It is claimed that the building is haunted, both by former wards as well as the spirit of a housekeeper, Anna Corbin, who was supposedly bludgeoned to death there in the 1950s.

In September 1957, he fell in love with Anna, a woman 30 years his junior who claimed to be the Comptesse de Estainville, though she was really the daughter of a Peckham Bus Driver.

Mrs. Child, true to her word, helped place Anna and her four children with a Quaker family named Hathaway near Canandaigua, New York.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

In order to prepare the role of an important old actress, a theatre student interviews three actresses who were her pupils: an international diva ( Glòria Marc, played by Núria Espert ), a television star ( Assumpta Roca, played by Rosa Maria Sardà ) and a dubbing director ( Maria Caminal, played by Anna Lizaran ).

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

She purchased a house for her sister Anna which had been the last home of Henry David Thoreau, now known as the Thoreau-Alcott House.

Louisa and her parents moved in with Anna as well.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:

Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

As a measure intended to keep the support of the Doukai, Alexios restored Constantine Doukas, the young son of Michael VII and Maria, as co-emperor and a little later betrothed him to his own first-born daughter Anna, who moved into the Mangana Palace with her fiancé and his mother.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

Aldona ( baptized Ona or Anna ; her pagan name Aldona is known only from the writings of Maciej Stryjkowski ; ca.

A trained teacher, Anna was excited by the program and bought a set of blocks for her family.

Anna Douglass remained a loyal supporter of her husband's public work, even though Douglass ' relationships with Julia Griffiths and Ottilie Assing, two women he was professionally involved with, caused recurring speculation and scandals.

When doctors could not help Alexei, the Tsarina looked everywhere for help, ultimately turning to her best friend, Anna Vyrubova, to secure the help of the charismatic peasant healer Rasputin in 1905.

In her Alexiad, Anna Komnene provides a description of an incendiary weapon, which was used by the Byzantine garrison of Dyrrhachium in 1108 against the Normans.

In 1891, Westcott's correspondence with Anna Sprengel suddenly ceased, and he received word from Germany either that she was dead or that her companions did not approve of the founding of the Order and no further contact was to be made.

Hedwig and her daughter-in-law, Henry's II widow Anna of Bohemia, established a Benedictine abbey at the site of the battle in Legnickie Pole, settled with monks coming from Opatovice in Bohemia.