Some of those who did not accept her, and their quotes on the subject:
Prince Rostislav Romanov(grandson of Xenia Alexandrovna) when the DNA results were announced: "I never had a shadow of a doubt. My father was raised with Anastasia, and this woman would never see him."
Earl Mountbatten: "I can assure you that there is not the remotest doubt that this woman is not my cousin. She was seen by all our closest mutual relations, all of whom declared there was no resemblance." He told this to the BBC, trying to discourage them from interviewing her and giving her any more attention, saying that her supporters "simply wanted to get rich on the royalties of further books, magazine articles, plays, etc."
Sidney Gibbes: "She in no way resembles the true Grand Duchess Anastasia that I had known..I am quite satisfied that she is an imposter." Also: "If that's GD Anastasia, I'm a Chinaman."
Alexei Volkov: "The conduct of the people who surrounded Madame Tchiakovsky seemed to me very suspect. They intervened all the time, completed her inadequate answers, and excused all her errors under the pretext she was 'ill.'"
Prince Felix Yussoupov: "I claim categorically that she is not Anastasia Nicolaievna, but just an adventuress, a hysteric and a frightful playactress. I simply cannot understand how anyone can be in doubt of this. These pretenders ought to be gathered up and sent to live in a house somewhere."
Princess Irene of Prussia: "I saw immediately that she could not be one of my nieces. Even though I had not seen them for nine years, the fundamental facial characteristics could not have altered to that degree, in particular the position of the eyes, the ear, etc. .. At first sight one could perhaps detect a resemblance to Grand Duchess Tatiana."
Olga Alexandrovna: "My beloved Anastasia was fifteen when I saw her for the last time in the summer of 1916. She would have been twenty four in 1925. I thought Mrs Anderson looked much older than that. Of course, one had to make allowances for a very long illness and the general poor condition of her health. All the same, my niece’s features could not possibly have altered out of all recognition. The nose, the mouth, the eyes were all different.”
