But it certainly would have been an embarrassment for the family who claimed Anna Anderson was a fraud if she'd turned out not to be. That is certainly true.
It's an interesting conjecture. I can't imagine doing something like that but that doesn't mean it wouldn't happen.
I mean these are the people who blatantly looked for a "virgin" for their son to marry in the early '80s.
Royalty isn't like you 'n' me, at least not as far as standards and practices.
The desire to "save face" has led to all sorts of mayhem and deviousness before so there is no reason to think it wouldn't now. Can you imagine the outcry were it to become public knowledge that someone who WAS the youngest daughter of the Tsar had been abandoned like that? Why on this board alone all you-know-what would break loose!
And that would be the TIP of the iceberg.
Sure, the Romanovs are ordinary, private citizens now but as anyone who lives in our so called "classless society" knows...
There are average people, and then there are Average People.
Not to put too fine a point on it, you probably aren't going to see Disney making a cartoon about MY youthful adventures any time soon.
It would be fortunate that Mrs. Manahan had no children had she been discovered to have been Anastasia. Don't think for a moment it would have stopped people from coming out of the woodwork in droves claiming to be her kids though.
Actually though, this is off the original topic, which is FASCINATING. One part of me would like to think that someone survived, and yet I wouldn't wish the scars and the pain that being the only survivor of something like that on my worst enemy. It's beyond imagining what that would do to a person.
What really hit home was that Mr Kleibenzetl heard someone call out "Mama!"
Dear God, how heartbreaking to see their pictures and know that it ended like that.
Mary
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