she visited the United States for a couple of months to see her daughters and two grandchildren staying on Long Island. Later life Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna died in her native Athens during the Greco-Italian War (28 October 1940 – 30 April 1941) Her daughter Xenia lived for years in Long Island and was for a time married to millionaire William Leeds, son of Nancy Stewart Worthington Leeds and the stepson of Maria's brother Prince Christopher. She took in for a few months a woman later found to be an impostor, Anna Anderson. Anderson fraudulently claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of her cousin, Emperor Nicholas II, and was forced to leave Xenia's house at the demand of William Leeds. Grand Duchess Maria never recognized Anderson. Ancestry Notes References Chavchavadze, David. The Artistic Legacy of Two Grand Mothers. Published in Royalty Magazine. 2005. Hall, Coryne. Danish efforts to Help the Imprisoned Romanovs. Published in Royal Russia N 6. 2014. . Hall, Coryne & Beéche, Arturo. The Romanovs: An Imperial Tragedy. Eurohistory.com. 2018. King, Greg & Hall, Coryn. A Fragment of England in the South: Harax. Published in: Imperial Crimea: Estates, Enchantment & The Last of the Romanovs. Self-published, 2017. King, Greg & Wilson, Penny. The Romanovs Adrift: The Russian Imperial Family in 1913–1919. Eurohistory and Kensington House Books. 2018. Korneva, Galina & Cheboksarova, Tatiana. Russia & Europe: Dynastic Ties . Eurohistory, 2013. Marie Georgievna, Grand Duchess of Russia. A Romanov Diary: The Autobiography of the Grand Duchess Marie Georgievna of Russia. Gilbert's Books, 2012. Mateos Sainz de Medrano, Ricardo. La Familia de la Reina Sofia: La Dinastia Griega, La casa de Hanover y Los Reales primos de Europa.La Esfera de los libros, 2006. . Palmer, Alan & Michael, Prince of Greece. The Royal House of Greece. Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, 1990 (). Stoeckl, Agness Baroness de. Not All Vanity. Published by John Murray, 1950. ASIN: B001PN8UYE. Vickers, Hugo. Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece. Londres, Hamish Hamilton, 2000 . Van der Kiste, John. Kings of the Hellenes: The Greek Kings, 1863–1974. Sutton Publishing, 1994. . Zeepvat, Charlotte. The Camera and the Tsars. Sutton Publishing, 2004. . Zeepvat, Charlotte. A True Daughter of Greece: Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark. Part I : A Marriage of Inconvenience. Royalty Digest Quarterly. 2014 N 2. Zeepvat, Charlotte. A True Daughter of Greece: Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark. Part