In 1920 a nameless woman was pulled from a Berlin canal and later became the most famous claimant to be Grand Duchess Anastasia, a supposed surviving member of the Russian imperial family.

This episode traces how grieving Russian exiles projected royalty onto her, the decades-long lawsuit over her identity, her eccentric later life, and the DNA testing that finally revealed the truth.

• The asylum origin of the royal rumor from patient Clara Peuthert
• Her real identity as Polish factory worker Franziska Schanzkowska
• The Grandanor Corporation selling shares in a phantom fortune
• The longest-running lawsuit in German history ending in stalemate
• 1990s DNA testing proving no link to the Romanov family