Perhaps his brother told him how she hid under the sheets when he was coming! Also it's strange he'd say she looked like Xenia or Irina, when the real Anastasia favored neither.
Hid under the sheets? I have no idea what you are referring to. When Alexander came to see her in Unterlengenhardt in the company of Ian Lilburn, she saw from a distance that he "had to be a descendant of Grand Duke Alexander, I recognize him on his ocean-like walk."
Which was all the more reason they had to file and win the court case to get the money.
What money? Gleb Botkin was written up in AA's will, but he made arrangements for any monies coming his way to go directly to the American Red Cross.
Dr. Von Berenberg-Gossler,
opposing attorney in the Anna Anderson case in the 1950s, believes that although wishful thinking in Russian émigré circles played a part in the affair money was the principal motivation behind Anderson's claims, the supposed lost fortune of the Tsar estimated at US$80.000.000. "I believe it was at the beginning of the 1930's a corporation (Grandanor) came into existence," he says, "which sold certificates in proportion to tsarist gold roubles allegedly held by the Bank of England and redeemable if or when Anderson should "inherit" said funds. Naturally these papers were not worth anything, they served only to enrich the initiator". (source: 1998 interview with Dr. Berenberg-Gossler, Godl's article)
Grandanor was instigated by Edward Fallows as a way to pay for AA's legal costs. If any fortune were to be found, the investors would be paid back handsomely. Gleb Botkin had nothing to do with it, he didn't have a penny to invest anyway.
He had already profited from other books and articles written by her, and the lure of more on the story was likely what made him bring her to America. From what I've read, he had to get her out of Germany since Gilliard and Hesse were about to have her officially declared as FS and charged with fraud.
She went to America as the guest of Xenia Leeds.
Grand Duke Ernst of Hesse-Darmstadt (brother of Tsarina Alexandra) hired his own private detectives to investigate Anderson's identity, and they, using records from Berlin, determined her to be the missing Polish factory worker Franziska Schanzkowska.
Not exactly. When Doris Wingender, who had "recognized" FS from a blurry photo of AA in the paper, "from which you could recognize anybody or nobody", walked into Fritz Lucke's office, her first words were: "Look, I've got some information about you Anastasia. How much is it worth to you?"
As it turned out, it was worth 1500 DM.
The Berlin police department eventually admitted they had decided to go along with Darmstadt's identification, and Heinz Drescher of Berlin Police Headquarters said that he had signed certain documents saying that identity has been established. "According to the material we have from the Haus-und-Vermoegensverwalten of the former Grand Duke of Hesse, and from various notices in the press, the alleged Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, is, in reality, Franziska Schanzkowska, born on 16.12.96 in Borowihlas, and this is supposedly proved definitively."
Hess. Polizeiamten Darmstadt, 20.5.27
"Erkennungsdienst" [Identification Service]
"Referring to the so-called Anastasia of Russia"
"From the Berlin daily report ["Tagesbericht"] No. 32 of 20.4.27 it is signed and signified officially as established that the identity of the `Unbekannte' has been completely assured as being that of Franziska Schanzkowska by the `Kriminalzentrale' of Darmstadt.
"All of this has been taken up and accepted by the police of Berlin.
From Anastasia, the Riddle of Anna Anderson:
When Harriet von Rathlef sent Fritz Schuricht, a private detective, down to police headquarters in the spring on 1927, Schuricht found that the police did indeed regard Anastasia's case as closed, but not because they knew any more about it than he did. On the contrary, their colleagues in
Darmstadt had written to inform them that the "unmasking" was a fact. As matters stood, however, no one was willing to take the responsibility. "
We did not establish the identity," the police in Darmstsd were quick to explain. "We did not take part in the work of the identification."
Later, it became clear that
Nachtausgabe and Martin Knopf was behind the whole "identification".