The Factory Worker Who Played a Dead Princess for Sixty Years
20th Century

The Factory Worker Who Played a Dead Princess for Sixty Years

Anna Anderson died in 1984 carrying one of modern history's most audacious identity claims—and the strangers who believed her changed the world.

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