Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark
| Princess Anastasia | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nancy Stewart Worthington Leeds, 1914
|
|||||
| Born |
20 January 1878 Zanesville, Ohio |
||||
| Died | 29 August 1923 (aged 45) London, England |
||||
| Spouse | George Worthington William Bateman Leeds Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark |
||||
| Issue | William Bateman Leeds, Jr. | ||||
|
|||||
| Father | William Charles Stewart | ||||
| Mother | Mary Holden | ||||
| Full name | |
|---|---|
| (Nonie) May "Nancy" Stewart |
Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (20 January 1878 – 29 August 1923) was a wealthy American heiress, Nonie "Nancy" May Stewart Worthington Leeds, who became a member of the Greek and Danish Royal Families through marriage to Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, the youngest child of King George I of Greece and his consort, Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia.
She was born May Stewart in Zanesville, Ohio, in the United States on 20 January 1878, to William Charles Stewart, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Mary Holden Stewart, who had been married since 11 December 1874. By 1880 the Stewart family had moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where it appears that May's mother died not long afterward, and her father remarried. May was educated at home until the age of seventeen, when she was sent to the Miss Porter's School for young ladies in Farmington, Connecticut. She was soon introduced to high society.
As "Nonie May Stewart", on 1 October 1894 in Cleveland, she married George Ely Worthington, son of Ralph Worthington, who was a son of major Cleveland industrialist George Worthington. The marriage license inaccurately states that she was born in 1876, since Ohio law required that females be at least 18 years of age to marry. The couple lived as husband and wife for four years, having no children.
It is unclear how or where, but the marriage ended on 23 March 1899 by divorce, annulment or abandonment, but the 1900 U.S. census records that "May Worthington" was again living with her father and step-mother in Cleveland that year (George Worthington had been born in Cleveland on 7 May 1872 and would die in Temple City, California on 22 August 1950 leaving a widow and three children, having long outlived Princess Anastasia). Since the original marriage was contracted under false pretences and while May was legally underage, annulment is plausible.
...
Wikipedia