#lady anastasia wernher

[higherentity]

[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/

[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.

[theroyalhistory]

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

[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.

[fleurderussie]

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

[ladysophy]

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

[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.

[emmieexplores2]

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