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The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, at the age of 13, was one of the first known teenagers to take a mirror selfie.
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The Tzar's sister Grand Duchess Olga, escaped the Russian Revolution, and ended up eventually moving to Canada, where she died in a small apartment over a beauty salon in 1960.
What really happened to grand duchess anastasia?
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what happened to grand duchess anastasia nikolaevna of russia?
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Luxembourg is the only Grand Duchy in the entire world. A Grand Duchy is a territory or state that is ruled by a duchess or grand duke. Following constitutional reform in 2008 the position became mostly ceremonial.
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The DNA of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was used to prove that Anna Anderson was not the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov of Russia.
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Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna - the last member of the Romanov royal family. She was born in a Russian palace but died in Toronto over a barber shop.
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Out of the last four Romanov Imperial Grand Duchesses, only Anastasia (the inspiration behind the 1997 Fox film) was a carrier of haemophilia, also known as the royal disease.
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In 1987, a UK TV game show, "The Grand Knockout Tournament" featured: Prince Edward, Princess Anne, The Duke and Duchess of York, John Travolta, Meat Loaf, Christopher Reeve and others in one episode.
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The name Alexandra was considered unlucky by the Imperial Russian Romanov family because so many Alexandras in the family, including Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, died young.
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Rumors always have persisted that the Grand Duchess Anastasia and her brother Alexei, the children of Czar Nicholas II survived the slaughter that killed rest of the family in 1918. But DNA testing in 2007 confirmed, that was not the case.
