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For much of the 20th century, various women claimed to be the "lost princess." The most famous of these was Anna Anderson , whose legal battles to be recognized as the Grand Duchess fascinated the public for years before DNA testing in the 1990s eventually proved she was not related to the Romanovs. Anastasia
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