#Anastasia wernher

[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait of Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby, Philip de László. 1913.

#aesthetic #art #art history #fashion #historical fashion #historical art #women in art #women #1910s #de laszlo #Anastasia #Anastasia mikhailovna de torby #Romanov family #Romanovs #morganatic romanovs #imperial Russia #Anastasia wernher #Russian royals #British aristocracy #yellow aesthetic #edwardian aesthetic #Edwardian fashion #Edwardian era

[higherentity]

#anastasia de torby #zia wernher #anastasia #1900s #countess

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 29th June 1923

— Friday 29th June Lunched at Lady Cunard’s. The usual potpourri and brilliant chat. She told Lord Balfour he was like God and ‘yet so Christ-like’! Dined with Michael Horby¹ at Shelley House² and we went to Stop Flirting, the popular revue in which two charming little people, Americans, called Fred and Adele Astaire, are the stars.³ Later a most lovely ball at Someries House⁴ ... Lady Zia Wernher’s.⁵ It was successful indeed and starts a new era in entertaining .... I was presented to a tallish gentleman, the Crown Prince of Sweden⁶ ... he is to marry the Lady Louise Mountbatten.⁷ It will be announced next week. What luck for her as she has only about £300 a year and is living in obscurity at Kensington Palace. The Mountbattens after being degraded during the war⁸ to the rank of mere marquises and earls are now much on the ascendant ... they are ever a lucky family, poverty-stricken, they specialise in brilliant marriages. I sat in the garden with Lady Desborough⁹ and found her witty and wily as ever ... does everyone realise, as I do, that she is the character of the age?

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1. Michael Charles St John Hornby (1899-1987), son of St John Hornby, was the founding partner of WH Smith.

2. The Hornby family’s house in Chelsea.

3. Frederick Austerlitz (1899-1987), who took the name Fred Astaire, was an American actor, dancer and singer who achieved worldwide fame in the 1930s in a series of Hollywood musicals renowned for their dance routines; and his sister Adele Marie (1896-1981), with whom he began a vaudeville act as children as 1905, when they changed their name to Astaire. By 1923 they had a Broadway act, which they were touring in London.

4. A Crown State property rented by the Wernhers in Regent’s Park, designed by John Nash and damaged by bombing during the Second World War. It was demolished in 1958.

5. Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Torby (1892-1977), elder daughter of the Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, and therefore a great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I. She married, in 1917, Harold Wernher (1893-1973), later 3rd Bt. She was granted the rank and precedence of an earl’s daughter after her marriage and stopped using her Russian title, being known as Lady Zia Wernher thereafter.

6. Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf (1882-1973), from 1950 King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. He was the widower of Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920), whom he had married in 1905; she was the cousin of King George V, and had died suddenly while eight months pregnant with her sixth child. 7. Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten (1889-1965), previously Princess Louise of Battenberg, married the Crown Prince of Sweden (vide supra) in 1923, and was Queen Consort of Sweden from 1950. She was daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg, who became 1st Marquess of Milford Haven when renouncing the German titles in 1917. She had earlier turned down proposals from King Manuel II of Portugal and had been secretly engaged to Prince Christopher of Greece, who was unable to marry her because he had no money; a second engagement was to Stuart Hill, an artist, whom she met while nursing in the Great War and who turned out to be homosexual. 8. There was a protracted debate between Lloyd George, King George V and Lord Stamfordham, the King’s private secretary, in 1917 about the titles to be bestowed on German members of the King’s family who had pledged allegiance to him and had been prepared to forfeit their German ranks. The King was cautioned against granting too many titles and to avoid bestowing any dukedoms. The Mountbatten marquessate was a compromise and their rise would indeed be unstoppable, with the surname of members of the House of Windsor becoming Mountbatten-Windsor in 1960, thirteen years after the marriage of the future Queen Elizabeth II to Philip Mountbatten. 9. Ethel ‘Ettie’ Fane (1867-1952), married in 1887 William Henry Grenfell (1855-1945), 1st Baron Desborough, a former Liberal MP who had joined the Conservatives in 1893 over his disagreement with the second Home Rule Bill for Ireland. Their three sons (qqv) predeceased them, two killed in the Great War and a third in a car crash.

#chips channon #channon diaries #1923 #1920s #emerald cunard #arthur balfour #michael hornby #fred astaire #adele astaire #zia wernher #gustaf vi adolf #louise mountbatten #ettie desborough #🕰️

[hughrlgrosvenor11]

From time immemorial, in his fairy tales, Walt Disney highly recommended that any girl “hang out” more in the Forest to meet her own lucky Prince!... I don’t know whether then Natalya Phillips (the future Mrs. Gerald Grosvenor) believed in any fairy tales or "meaning of true Love" or not, but she definitely believed in "right words" of her wise grandmother... Her grandmother (Lady Anastasia Mikhailovna Wernher, Countess de Torby) really was very wise and very perspicacious, because she was the quickest one to figure out who exactly is the heir to the 5th Duke of Westminster and told Natalya (right before her being going to the ball) not to come back without inviting the future Duke of Westminster to her place for the lunch... 🌾🌞🦁 🌹🌾🌞🦁 ..in memory of Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, (22 December 1951 – 9 August 2016) https://www.instagram.com/p/C1JokG6rEUJ/

#GeraldCavendishGrosvenor #6thDukeofWestminster #GeraldGrosvenor #NataliaGrosvenor #DuchessofWestminster #HughGrosvenor #DukeofWestminster #7thDukeofWestminster #HughRichardLouisGrosvenor #HughRichardLouis #Grosvenor #EatonHall #WaltDisney #Disney

[ladysophy]

Lady Anastasia “Zia” Wernher in the early 1950s. Interestingly, my maternal grandmother and especially my mother would have look eerily similar like Zia if they were white.

#lady anastasia wernher #lady zia wernher #countess anastasia mikhailovna de torby #countess anastasia de torby #british aristocracy #great britain

[theroyalhistory]

Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby (later Lady Zia Wernher), 1911

#1910s #vintage #history #peerage #anastasia de torby #lady zia wernher #1910s fashion #edwardian fashion #socialite #1911

[princessvictoriamelita]

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich's granddaughters, 1942.

Georgina and Myra Wernher.

Their parents were Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Baronet and his wife Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby, eldest child of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich.

Source: The Tatler and Bystander.

#georgina wernher #myra wernher #1942 #1940s #romanov #british royal fandom

[venicepearl]

Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby, CBE (9 September 1892 – 7 December 1977), otherwise styled Lady Zia Wernher, was the elder daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, by Countess Sophie of Merenberg.

#Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby #House Romanov #XX century #people #portrait #photo #photography #Black and White

[fleurderussie]

favourite portraits (3/?) - Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby (aka Lady Zia Wernher) by Philip Alexius de Laszlo

#favourite portraits #women portraits #art #artists on tumblr #anastasia de torby #philip de lászló

[aw-laurendet]

Mihailovichi Edit Emperor Nicholas I (1796-1855) = Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1798-1860) | +-- Grand Duke Michael Nicolaevich (1832-1909) = Princess Cecily of Baden (1839-1891) | +-- Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich (1859-1919) | +-- Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna (1860-1922) | = Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1851-1897) | +-- Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich (1861-1929) | = Countess Sophie of Merenberg (1868-1927) cr Countess de Torby | | | +-- Countess Anastasia de Torby (1892-1977) | | = Sir Harold Augustus Wernher (1893-1973) | | | +-- Countess Nadejda de Torby (1896-1963) | | = George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892-1938) | | | +-- Count Michael de Torby (1898-1959) | +-- Grand Duke George Mikhailovich (1863-1919) | = Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark (1876-1940) | | | +-- Princess Nina Georgievna (1901-1974) | | = Prince Paul Chavchavadze (1899-1971) | | | +-- Princess Xenia Georgievna (1903-1965) | = William Bateman Leeds (1902-1971) | = Herman Jud (1911-1981) | +-- Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (1866-1933) | = Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960) | | | +-- Princess Irina Alexandrovna (1895-1970) | | = Prince Felix Yussupov (1887-1967) | | | +-- Prince Andrei Alexandrovich (1897-1981) | | = Elisabetha Sasso-Ruffo (1886-1940) | | | | | +-- Princess Xenia Andreevna (1919-2000) | | | = Calhoun Ancrum (1915-1990) div. | | | = Geoffrey Tooth (1908-1998) | | | | | +-- Prince Michael Andreevich (1920-2008) | | | = Esther Murphy (b. 1921) div. | | | = Shirley Crammond (1916-1983) | | | = Giulia Gemma Crespi (b. 1930) | | | | | +-- Prince Andrew Andreevich (b. 1923) | | = Elena Dourneva (b. 1927) div | | | | | +-- Prince Alexis Andreevich (b. 1953) | | = Zoetta Leisy (b. 1956) | | | | = Kathleen Norris (1935-1967) | | | | | +-- Prince Peter Andreevich (b. 1961) | | | | | +-- Prince Andrew Andreevich (b. 1963) | | = Elisabeth Flores (b. 1964) | | | | | +-- Princess Natasha Andreevna (b. 1993) | | | | = Inez von Bachelin (b. 1933) | | = Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall (1908-2000) | | | | | +-- Princess Olga Andreevna (b. 1950) | | = Thomas Mathew (b. 1945) | | | +-- Prince Feodor Alexandrovich (1898-1968) | | = Princess Irina Paley (1903-1990) div. | | | | | +-- Prince Michael Feodorovich (1924-2008) | | | = Helga Staufenberger (b. 1926) div. | | | | | | | +-- Prince Michael Mikhailovich (1959-2001) | | | ≈ Maria de las Mercedes Ustrell-Cabani (b. 1960) | | | | | | | +-- Tatiana Alexandra Romanoff (b. 1986) (born out of wedlock, adopted by her grandfather after her father's death) | | | | | | | | | = Maria de las Mercedes Ustrell-Cabani (b. 1960) | | | | | +-- Princess Irene Feodorvna (b. 1934) | | = Andre Jean Pelle (b. 1923) div. | | = Victor-Marcel Soulas (b. 1938) div. | | | +-- Prince Nikita Alexandrovich (1900-1974) | | = Countess Maria Vorontzova-Daschkova (1903-1997) | | | | | +-- Prince Nikita Nikitich (1923-2007) | | | = Jane Anna Schoenwald (b. 1933) | | | | | | | +-- Prince Feodor Nikitich (1974-2007) | | | | | +-- Prince Alexander Nikitich (1929-2002) | | = Maria Valguarnera di Niscemi (b. 1931) | | | +-- Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich (1901-80) | | = Countess Marina Golenistcheva-Koutouzova (1912-1969) div. | | | | | +-- Princess Nadeshda (1933-2002) | | = Anthony Brian Allen (b. 1931) | | = William Thomas Hall Clark (1924-1995) | | | | = Sheila MacKellar Chisholm (1898-1969) | | | +-- Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich (1902-1978) | | = Princess Alexandra Galitzine (1905-2006) div. | | | | | +-- Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich (1938-1999) | | = Stephena Verdel Cook (b. 1938) div. | | | | | +-- Princess Stephena Rostislavovna (b. 1963) | | | | = Christia Ipsen (b. 1949) | | | | | +-- Princess Alexandra Rostislavovna (b. 1983) | | | | | +-- Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich (b. 1985) | | | | | +-- Prince Nikita Rostislavovich (b. 1987) | | | | = Alice Eilken (1923-1996) div. | | | | | +-- Prince Nicholas Rostislavovich (1945-2000) | | = Pamela Kuzinowski (b. 1944) div. | | | | | +-- Prince Nicholas Nicolaevich (b. 1968) | | | = Lisa Marie Flowa (b. 1971) | | | | | | | +-- Cory Nicolaevich (1994-1998) (born out of wedlock, legitimized by parent's subsequent marriage but not accorded the title of Prince) | | | | | +-- Prince Daniel Nicolaevich (b. 1972) | | | | | +-- Princess Heather Nicolaievna (b. 1976) | | | | = Hedwig von Chappuis (1905-1997) | | | +-- Prince Vasili Alexandrovich (1907-1989) | = Princess Natalia Galitzine (1907-1989) | | | +-- Princess Marina (b. 1940) | = William Beadleston (b. 1938) div. | +-- Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich (1869-1918) | +-- Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich (1875-1895)

[higherentity]

#Philip Alexius de László #Anastasia de Torby #anastasia #zia wernher #racehorse owner #1900s #Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby #art #painting #countess #philip de lászló

[ladysophy]

A very rare photo of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich with his eldest daughter Lady Anastasia “Zia” Wernher. Early to Mid 1920s.

#romanovs #romanov #russia #grand duke michael mikhailovich #countess anastasia de torby #lady anastasia wernher #lady zia wernher

[ladysophy]

Lady Anastasia Wernher (née Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby) as a middle aged woman during the Second World War.

Anastasia was the eldest daughter of the exiled Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and his morganatic wife Countess Sophie de Torby.

Fun Fact: Anastasia (when she was Countess Anastasia de Torby) flirted with Crown Prince George (later George II) of Greece during the 1910s while George visited England with his family. Not surprisingly, the flirting didn’t go beyond the flirting. They did remained friends.

#british aristocracy #romanovs #great britain #england #lady anastasia de wernher #countess anastasia de torby

[ladysophy]

Photos of the Milford Haven Ruby Kokoshnik Tiara in detail. This tiara was gifted to Countess Sophie de Torby by her husband Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia in occasion of their unconventional but loving marriage.

Sophie passed the tiara down to her second daughter Countess Nadejda de Torby in occasion of her marriage to Prince George of Battenberg (later 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven). A duplicate was made for Sophie’s eldest daughter Countess Anastasia de Torby in occasion of her marriage to Sir Harold Wernher. The difference in this particular (Anastasia’s) tiara was that it was made with sapphires and diamonds instead of rubies and diamonds. I would love to see the Sapphire Kokoshnik Tiara one day.

Source: The Court Jeweller.

#tiara #royalty #romanovs #romanov

[ladysophy]

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#looks like both michael and sophie had some rebellious streaks in them

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

A very rare photo of King George I of Greece and his family. Early-to-mid 1880s.

From left clockwise: Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, and King George I of Greece.

In the middle: Queen Olga of Greece with little Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

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#4

A rare photo of Queen Sophia of Greece in October 1931. This was possibly the last professional photo taken of her before her death a few months later.

Source: (x).

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#3

A portrait of Crown Prince George (later King George II) of Greece by Philip de Laszlo. 1914. This is a nice potrait of him.

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#2

A rare photo of Crown Princess Sophia of Greece and Duchess of Sparta. 1911.

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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#1

Photos of the Milford Haven Ruby Kokoshnik Tiara in detail. This tiara was gifted to Countess Sophie de Torby by her husband Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia in occasion of their unconventional but loving marriage.

Sophie passed the tiara down to her second daughter Countess Nadejda de Torby in occasion of her marriage to Prince George of Battenberg (later 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven). A duplicate was made for Sophie’s eldest daughter Countess Anastasia de Torby in occasion of her marriage to Sir Harold Wernher. The difference in this particular (Anastasia’s) tiara was that it was made with sapphires and diamonds instead of rubies and diamonds. I would love to see the Sapphire Kokoshnik Tiara one day.

Source: The Court Jeweller.

254 notes • Posted 2021-07-28 12:01:33 GMT

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