Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Chapter 641 Princess Anastasia

When the Kremlin was bombed, Yannick was holding a press conference in the Berlin Palace.

Next to Yannick sat a strange middle-aged woman. This woman had the aura of a lady. Judging from her face, it was clear that she was definitely a rare beauty when she was young. The reporters in the audience whispered to each other about the identity of this lady. After all, being able to sit next to Crown Prince Yannick, her identity must be unusual, but no one among them knew this lady.

Finally, when Yannick turned on the microphone switch, the audience instantly became silent, and you could even hear a pin drop. "Everyone, I would like to introduce this lady to you. Her name is Anastasia Nikolayevna Romanova."

There was an uproar in the audience when Yannick said the name.

Because this name belongs to the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, the last emperor of the Russian Empire, and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna.

At that time, Russian Tsar Nicholas II was ousted from the throne due to a coup and was subsequently secretly placed under house arrest. After several months of house arrest, Nicholas II and his entire immediate family were secretly shot. Nicholas II, his wife, four daughters and one son, none of them survived.

Poor Emperor Nicholas II, even his bones were burned after his death. However, after Nicholas II's family was brutally exterminated, nearly 30 people came to the media one after another, claiming that they were the children of Nicholas II and had narrowly escaped death. Some of these people are full of flaws and are liars at first glance. But some people speak so clearly that it is difficult to tell the truth from the lie.

This is because of the Romanov dynasty's huge inheritance in Swiss banks. If it is determined that he is the child of Nicholas II, he will be the only heir of Nicholas II and can inherit the entire legacy of the Romanov dynasty. This is why after the death of Nicholas II, so many people pretended to be his children.

The most famous one is probably Princess Anastasia’s identity case.

Three years after the death of Nicholas II and his family, a woman committed suicide in Berlin and was saved by the police. Although the police found out that her name was Anna Anderson, she claimed that her real name was Anastasia and that she was the youngest daughter of Nicholas II.

As for how she escaped, she told everyone this story: She said that she and her family were imprisoned, and a soldier who was responsible for guarding her fell in love with her. Later, the soldiers received orders from their superiors to execute the Tsar's family. He was reluctant to kill Anastasia, so he resorted to a trick, pretending to be Anastasia with the body of a female prisoner, and rescued her.

After escaping, Anna and the soldier fled to Germany, where they lived in seclusion in the countryside. But not long ago, this man later became seriously ill and unfortunately passed away. After his death, she was so disheartened that she thought of suicide.

At that time, this explosive news immediately made the front page headlines. The only princess of the last tsar was still alive. Such curious news was spread a lot, and for a while, opinions about the real and fake princesses were rampant.

Mathilde Kshesinskaya, a ballerina in exile in the West, was familiar with the Tsar's family. She said that Anna had a pair of Nicholas's eyes, and when he saw her, he looked at her with "the eyes of this emperor." There is also Nicholas II’s cousin, Grand Duke Alexander. After spending two days with Miss Anna, he exclaimed loudly: “I have seen Niki’s daughter! I have seen Niki’s daughter!”

Nicholas II's biological sister, Grand Duchess Olga, came to visit Anna when she was ill. Although the two were very close by blood, her relationship with Anastasia was very distant during the reign of Nicholas II. So even if the two met, she could not determine the true identity of this woman, and could only give a very vague conclusion in the end: she might really be Anastasia, but of course she might not.

Anna's most powerful supporter was Gleb Potkin, the son of the Tsar's physician, Eugene Potkin. His father had been with the royal family for many years and was killed together with Nicholas II in 1918. He himself visited the palace many times when he was young. He said that when he met Anna in 1926, he felt like he was reunited with an old friend. He carefully mentioned some childhood memories. Anna remembered many details, which were consistent with Potkin's memory.

At that time, many scholars also suggested that she might just be a fake princess, and the purpose of her trip was to inherit the Czar's huge property in a Swiss bank. Sure enough, after that, the "Princess Anastasia" fought for many years in lawsuits over property issues, and was tried by a German court and formally filed. The matter began in 1938 and the final verdict was not reached until 1970.

The court's final ruling was that Anna did not provide enough evidence to prove that she was Anastasia Nikolayevna. However, Anna still made a lot of money from this matter. Not only were nobles from various places inviting her as guests, she was also married to a historian and lived a prosperous life.

This sensational palace secret was later adapted by the screenwriter into the movie "The True and False Princess". After its release, movie fans all over the world were deeply attracted by this legendary experience, and it became a rare classic film. Anna herself received a handsome royalty.

Later, with the advancement of science and technology, DNA technology became increasingly perfect. Although Anna Anderson had passed away at this time, Anna had an intestinal obstruction operation in the hospital in 1979, and the small intestine section specimens were preserved in formalin and sealed with paraffin. The sliced ​​specimens were sent to the British Forensic Science Center. After identification, Anna's DNA sequence was different from that of the Tsarist royal family, and the two were not related. This proves that this woman is just a fake and not a real princess.

But at this time, Yannick had already thrown this boring liar into a mental hospital, and selected a female agent from the intelligence department to pretend to be.

"When Nicholas II and his family were under house arrest, my grandfather, His Majesty William II, planned to rescue them. Although Germany and Russia were at war at the time, they were his cousins ​​after all, and His Majesty William II naturally also wanted to rescue them. I won’t leave it alone.”

Judging from the lineage of Tsar Paul I, Kaiser Wilhelm II is the grandson of Tsar Paul I’s granddaughter, and Tsar Nicholas II is the grandson of Paul I’s grandson. It can be seen that Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas The two are cousins. Wilhelm II was born in 1859 and Nicholas II was born in 1868; Wilhelm II was Nicholas II's cousin. Judging from the political exchanges between Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II, the interaction between the two was relatively frequent.

"It's just that the plan was made too hastily and not rigorous enough, which resulted in the operation not being successful, and only Her Royal Highness Princess Anastasia was rescued."

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