#countess sophie de torby

[romanovsonelastdance]

Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and his morganatic wife, Sophie, Countess de Torby, in costume.

[ladysophy]

Some more AI Generated Images of Historical Royals in Retro Outfits:

1. Crown Prince Constantine of Greece and his fiancée Princess Sophie of Prussia.

2. Countess Sophie de Torby.

3. Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia.

4. Countess Nadejda de Torby.

5. Countess Anastasia de Torby.

6. Queen Maud of Norway.

7. Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia.

[princessvictoriamelita]

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia playing golf with his wife Countess Sophie de Torby in Cannes, 1892.

[theroyalhistory]

Countess Sophie Nikolaievna of Merenberg, Countess de Torby, 1903

[glitterofthepast]

Countess Sophie de Torby, wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich in court dress. Photo colored by me.

[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.

[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)

[otmaplusalexei]

Grand duke Michael Mikhailovich with his wife, Countess Sophie de Torby, and their children, Anastasia (left), Nadezhda (right), and Michael (front).

[romanovsonelastdance]

Newspaper article announcing engagement of Nada de Torby and Prince George of Battenberg.

Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby was the daughter of exiled Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and his morganactic wife, Sophie, Countess de Torby. Nada was a first cousin of Irina Alexandrovna and her brothers, as well as Nina and Xenia Georgievna. Prince George of Battenberg (later 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven) was the elder son of Louis of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse. He was a first cousin of OTMAA and elder brother of Maria's admirer, Dickie Mountbatten. They married on 15 November, 1916 and had two children, Tatiana (1917) and David (1919).

[ladysophy]

AI Generated Art of Historical Royals if they were in a fantasy novel or movie:

1. Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.

2. Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark (née Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia).

3. Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia.

4. Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark.

5. Countess Sophie de Torby (the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia).

6. Queen Maud of Norway.

7. Princess Victoria “Moretta” of Prussia.

8. Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia.

9. Crown Prince George ( later King George II of the Hellenes) of Greece.

10. Prince Adalbert of Prussia.

Stay tuned! Part 2 is coming soon!

[ladysophy]

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and his beloved wife Countess Sophie de Torby. The couple were dressed as King Henri IV of France (1553-1610) and his mistress and adviser Gabrielle d’Estrees, Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux (1573-1599) in occasion of the Devonshire House Ball of 1897.

I don’t own this image!

[ladysophy]

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and Countess Sophie de Torby in occasion of their second daughter Countess Nadejda de Torby’s marriage to Prince George of Battenberg (later 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven) in 1916.

Source: vk.com

[ladysophy]

Grand Duchess Anastasia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (second from right), Countess Sophie de Torby (on the right holding an umbrella) and various Mecklenburg-Schwerin royals (possibly Anastasia’s children and husband).

Source: eBay

[ladysophy]

“Together in life and together in the afterlife. Nothing will drive us apart.”- My own quote about Michael and Sophie.

These are the graves of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and his morganatic wife Countess Sophie de Torby in London. Very worn (sadly) due to age.

According to the author Charlotte Zeepvat, Michael visited Sophie’s grave everyday when he wasn’t too ill to do so. I find this act very touching.

Source: Find a Grave website.

[ladysophy]

A rare photo of Countess Sophie de Torby in 1895. She might be in the very early stages of pregnancy with Nadejda in this photo.

Source: Worthpoint

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A rare image of Countess Sophie (or Sophy as she liked calling herself) de Torby, the wife of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia.

Source: VK.com