Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark

Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (born Nonnie May Stewart; 20 January 1878 – 29 August 1923) was an American-born heiress and member of the Greek royal family. She was married 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.

Early life She was born Nonnie May Stewart in Zanesville, Ohio, to William Charles Stewart, a wealthy merchant, and his wife Mary Lovinia Holden (sister of silver-mining magnate Liberty Emery Holden and aunt of millionaire philanthropist Albert F. Holden, eponymous benefactor of the Holden Arboretum), 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. She was soon introduced to high society.

First and second marriages May married George Ely Worthington, son of Ralph Worthington (who was a son of George Worthington, a major Cleveland industrialist) on 1 October 1894. In reality, Leeds was ten years older than her husband. Their engagement was announced to the public in 1914 on the island of Capri. The wedding was delayed due to reservations within the Royal Family about the prince's proposed marriage to an American commoner who had been married twice already. After the First World War, when the dynasty went into exile and lived in much-reduced circumstances, family opposition to Prince Christopher's wealthy bride-to-be subsided.

The Eastern Orthodox wedding took place on 1 February 1920, in Vevey, Switzerland, six years after the engagement. Four days later, the bride joined the Greek Orthodox Church and took, as was usual, a new Christian name: Anastasia. Thereafter, she was officially styled as HRH Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark. However, the U.S. press continued to refer to her as the "Tin Plate Heiress", the "Dollar Princess" or the "Million Dollar Princess".

When Anastasia's 19-year-old son, William B. Leeds, Jr., married her third husband's 18-year-old niece, Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia, in 1921, Anastasia is said to have objected because of the couple's youth. She denied rumors that her son would be given a title by the King and convert to the Orthodox faith prior to the marriage. The couple were married in Paris, lived on Long Island (where they had one daughter), and divorced in New York in March 1930.

Shortly after her marriage to Prince Christopher, Anastasia was diagnosed with cancer. She died three years later in 1923 aged 45 at Spencer House, London. According to her will, her remains were returned to the United States and she was buried with her parents in the family mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City.

On 11 February 1929, Prince Christopher married Princess Françoise of Orléans and fathered a son, Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, who was born in January 1939. Prince Christopher died a year later.