What Really Happened to Princess Anastasia, the Tin Heiress Who Became Prince Philip's Aunt

London, August 1923. The papers called her the Dollar Princess and listed her pearls, her houses and her husbands. Born Nonnie May Stewart in Ohio, she married the Tin Plate King William B. Leeds, waited six years for Prince Christopher of Greece, and became Princess Anastasia, aunt by marriage to Prince Philip. This is the story of the secret her husband kept from her to the end. ━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 2:41 The Girl in the Magazine 11:39 The Door at Newport 20:34 Six Winters in Switzerland 29:49 The Dollar Princess of Athens 39:39 The Game of Make-Believe 48:58 Epilogue ━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 SOURCES 1. Prince Christopher of Greece, "Memoirs of H.R.H. Prince Christopher of Greece," Hurst & Blackett, 1938. 2. C. à Court Repington, "The First World War 1914–1918," 1920. 3. Munsey's Magazine, Dec 1897; Current Opinion, Feb 1921. 4. Newport Mercury, 1906; Jewelers' Circular, 1909. 5. The New York Times, 1908–1923; Associated Press, Aug–Oct 1923. ━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT CROWNFILES The women who lived beside power, and paid the private price for very public lives. Would you have kept the secret, as Christopher did? Share your thoughts below. ━━━━━━━━━━ IMAGE CREDITS Archival photographs and film: Library of Congress (Bain News Service, National Photo Co.), BnF Gallica, Rijksmuseum, NYPL, IWM, Internet Archive (public domain). Period film is used as illustration. Some scenes are AI-generated reconstructions. Creative Commons images, via Wikimedia Commons: Edwardx · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 4.0) Giorgio Galeotti · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY 4.0) Kenneth C. Zirkel · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 4.0) Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 2.0) Nolde16 · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 4.0) orangeaurochs · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY 2.0) Jim Osley · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 2.0) Chrissyway · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 4.0) Kostisl · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 3.0) Quintin Soloviev · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY 4.0) Quintin Soloviev · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY 4.0) DeFacto · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 4.0) orangeaurochs · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY 2.0) Leonid Tarassishin · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 3.0) Beyond My Ken · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 4.0) Catlemur · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 4.0) ━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER This video is a historical documentary based on publicly available sources, including memoirs, period newspapers, and archival documents. All claims are drawn from cited sources listed above. Where historical accounts differ, this is noted in the narration. This content is for educational and historical purposes. It is not intended to defame, harass, or invade the privacy of any person living or deceased. #CrownFiles #PrincessAnastasia #PrincePhilip #DollarPrincess #GildedAge