#lady wernher

[higherentity]

[linafinsterwald192]

"Sergei Nikulov. I will work with him, and only him."

MY BABE. MY GIRLBOSS. MY HERO. I LOVE YOU MARGO MADISON. "Why? What happened to him? Why have I been unable to reach him?"

i fucking love you margo. you are out here being so brave risking it all to hear the truth. to find out what could possibly be the worst news in your life right after all the news about Wernher. "The reason you even have a Mars programme." Ah yes. How valuable Nikulov is to Margo for checks notes being a director and having filled the position for ten years...? "I want Sergei here. In Houston. In two weeks or less." MY GALLLLLL: MY GIRLLLL. IT ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE SERGEI IS THE ONE HEAD OVER HEELS AND BEGGING FOR HER LOVE BUT FUCK THIS SHIT THIS LADY WOULD DIE FOR HIM AND WE KNOW IT. AND SHE KNOWS IT TOO I AM CONVINCED OF IT.

[mrmrswales]

Hoping for little Wales pageboys and flower girl 🤞🏼

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2023/06/duke-of-westminster-and-olivia-hensons.html

Duke of Westminster and Olivia Henson's wedding details announced

 The marriage of the Duke of Westminster and Miss Olivia Grace Henson is to take place on 7 June, 2024, at Chester Cathedral.

It is expected that senior members of the Royal Family will be present at the nuptials. The young duke is a fourth cousin once removed of the King. They both have Romanov blood, the duke via his mother Natalia, and the King via the late Prince Philip's Romanov descent.

A spokesperson for the Duke and Miss Henson said: “The couple have chosen the cathedral for both its beauty and long association with the Grosvenor family, including to the Duke personally. Cheshire is the Grosvenor family’s ancestral home and as Miss Henson’s connection to the region continues to grow, they are keen to plan their wedding there.”

The duke's parents, the 6th Duke and Natalia Phillips married at Chester Cathedral, 7 October, 1978, and the Royal Family were there to celebrate the union of one of Britain's wealthiest men and Natalia, daughter of one of Queen Elizabeth II's great friends, the former Georgina Wernher. The duke's aunt, Lady Leonora Grosvenor, married the late 5th Earl of Lichfield at the cathedral, 8 March, 1975, and another aunt, Lady Jane Grosvenor married the 10th Duke of Roxburghe there, 10 September, 1977.

"The Duke and Miss Henson became engaged at Eaton Hall in April and have been incredibly grateful for the warm messages of congratulations they have received since then."

One of Britain’s wealthiest men, certainly our richest duke, 32,  is godfather to Prince George of Wales, and a close confidante of the Prince and Princess of Wales. He was born 29 January, 1991, the only son of the 6th duke (1951-2016).

COME THROUGH PAGEBOY GEORGIE!!

[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

[corsairesix]

The results are in for the favorite minor characters in Fallout!

(Your mileage may vary about whether this counts as a minor character)

Characters in 3, New Vegas, and 4 that only got one vote were:

Fallout 3 -- Weston Lesko, Wernher, Wadsworth, Victoria Watts, Vance, Toshiro Kago, Thomas Jefferson, Stockholm, Squirrel, Sally, Rosie, Rory McLaren, Reilly, Quinn, Princess, Pappy, Nadine, Mr. Brotch, Mister Burke, Miss Jeanette, Lucy West, Karl, Jenny Stahl, Irving Gallows, Ian West, Harold, Gallo, Flak, Emmaline, Cherry, Bryan Wilks, Bronson, Bessie Lynn, Benji Montgomery, Barrett, Arthur Maxson,

Fallout New Vegas -- Boxcar, Book Chute, Driver Nephi, Lucius, Sergio, Cachino, Festus, Vera Keyes, Bitter-root, Lt. Boyd, Keene, Deputy Beagle, Jane, Old Lady Gibson, Siri, Alice McLafferty, Father Elijah, Daisy Whitman, Antony, Diane, Lieutenant Gorobets, Grecks, Stealth Suit, Pretty Sarah, Marjorie, Philippe, Silus, Ezekiel, Daniel, Francine Garrett, Captain Curtis, Lanius, No-Bark Noonan, Rhonda, Poindexter, Ignacio Rivas, Tom Anderson, Carlyle St. Clair III, Jimmy, Malefic Maud, Private Kyle Edwards, Thomas Hildern, Jessup, McMurphy, Violet, Cliff Briscoe

Fallout 4 -- Rory Rigwell, Proctor Teagan, Aster, Isabel Cruz, Nat, Dr. Duff, Miss Edna, Moe Cronin, Mags Black, Sheriff Hawk, Captain Avery, Zeke, Marcy Long, Horatio, Duke, Grand Zealot Richter, Proctor Ingram, Edward Deegan, Jezebel, Keith McKinney, Bedlam, Evan, Barney Rook, The Scribe, Mikey, Moss, Cog, Magnolia, Phyllis Daily, Travis, Hawthorne, Chase, Sonya, Mama Murphy, Wiseman

[womblegrinch]

Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937) - Lady Ludlow, née Alice Sedgwick Manciewicz, (previously Lady Wernher)

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1924.

66.5 x 39.25 inches, 169 x 99.5 cm. Estimate: £20,000-30,000.

Sold Christie’s, London, 11 Dec 2014 for £116,500 incl B.P.

de László is the only artist that I would post every painting he did.

[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.

[mashkaromanova]

Alexandra Feodorovna, 1895

“My darling Ernie,

Please forgive my not having written to you since the 27th, but I have been hard at work making jackets & frocks for poor Children (for my sort of Lady’s Working Guild I have arranged). - I enjoy sewing with the machine and like hemming much better than I used to. - Nicky has again gone out shooting to-day - half way to the station he took me & then I went for a walk - now it is 9 o’clock. He returns between 6 & 7. Luckily the weather is magnificent - warm, & the brightest sunshine. It reminds me of when Ducky wrote about yr going out shooting towards the end of her time, last winter.

It does him no end of good, being out all day & enjoying the sport. Some papers he read through at 7. - I work, & read & have Schneiderlein, & then shall drive with the little Obolenski - she is so nice, & I am glad we took her. The fat Wassiltchikoff (a cousin of Masha’s) is on leave. - The old Countess Tolstoi (A. Marie’s) is coming to me a moment at 2, as I only saw her a second after Church on Sunday. - Baby Irina goes out every day, for two or three hours & sleeps & grows beautifully in consequence. - U. Wladimir being the only one of the family, except Children, here - comes often to luncheon. - 

I must say Goodbye now, as I want to write to Elisabeth Wernher, whom I am sending a little brooch for the 8th. - Is Ella coming to you before returning to Russia from Paris? - Kissing you all tenderly, Ever yr very loving Sunny.

[P.S.] How sorry Abby must have been to leave. - I am going to send him a little remembrance. -”

- Alexandra to Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, 23rd September/5th October 1895

“My darling Ernie dear,

Just a few lines whilst I feel a little better. I had one day a slight chill in the stomach, & after that got such pain, especially with strong Wehen - as it has gone down very low [she was pregnant at the time, the baby was born in November]. This is the third day I am lying in bed or on the sopha [sic], as must keep very quiet. Güntz slept here these last nights, - I have seen the Dr too, & all leads to think it may make its appearance any day, & that would not be too early, according to position & feeling, tho’ we all expected end of October, or 4th of November. All is going well, & one need not be anxious, only I may not get up till those pains have stopped, as they have nothing to do with the whole. - I only write this privately to you, so as that you may know how I am. -

Think only how sad, Nicky’s beloved collie Woron has died from inflammation of the lungs, we miss him fearfully, & I cannot think of him without tears; - he was a real true friend. Little Ara was so fond of him. - To-day I hear is the lawn-tennis tournament, & I hope it will be as nice as last year. - We have got beautiful weather & I grieve having to stop indoors. - I wonder when Ella leaves you again, & if she will bring me a tiny letter from my lazy old brother. -

But more I cannot write, it makes me so hot. Goodbye & God bless you. Think of me, deary, & when that news comes send Wilhelmino with a wreath from me to the Rosenhöhe. Many a tender kiss, Darling Ernie dear, fr. yr tenderly loving old Sunny.

[P.S.] Have you seen A. Sanny at Wiesbaden? - Best love to yr sweet little Wife.”

- 28th September/10th October

[fleurderussie]

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

[qqueenofhades]

If you have a few moments, and are so inclined, would you consider spearheading a discussion, as brief or as verbose as you wish, about the Legendary Garbage Dates? Like, when, what made it a GD, and HOW MUCH of a awkward horrible trash king dumpster fire was Flynn,-aka Charms McGee-during each??? Only YOU can write this in the way it needs to be written.

hoooo okay okay okayyyyyyy

the garbage dates!!!! aka 1x11 was possibly the first Official of the garbage dates, but garcia flynn had been horribly failing to court the woman he has a crush on for so, so many episodes beforehand. so many. let us briefly recap and rate garcia flynn’s romantic efforts extended fart noises.

1x01: wants to talk to lucy in the warehouse by himself. sends a goon to grab her and announce, “flynn wants to talk to you!!” this fails, because somehow this doesn’t make ladies swoon. catches her outside the burning hindenburg that he just tried to blow up. lucy shouts at him that he’s a psychopath who killed his family; he pulls out her journal and tells her that he knows her life story and that they are destined to work together/Do Great Things. then grabs her around the neck and points a gun at wyatt when he arrives, fucks things up horribly, and runs off like a little bitch. 0/10. 

1x02: “we have to stop meeting like this, lucy!!!” on their second meeting, when you know his trash ass loves it, right after shooting at the team/wyatt. lucy is so god damn annoyed with him she just yells, he loves it, but is offended she hasn’t jumped aboard the destroy rittenhouse train yet. later, busts into the box at ford’s theatre, sees her, brain glitches, then shoots her favorite president in front of her eyes, grabs her, throws her on a couch, fucks things up horribly, and runs off like a little bitch. negative eleventy billion/10. i can’t even look at him.

1x03: doesn’t actually get to talk to lucy in this episode. steals a nuclear bomb instead. 0/10.

1x04: strolls up to lucy like a suave motherfucker in his pinstriped suit, stares at her with a “don’t you find me irresistible???” lowered-eyes, puckered-lips gaze while she shouts at him about wernher von braun. gets her caught by nazis, clearly regrets this, fucks things up horribly, and runs off like a little bitch. 0/10.

1x05: doesn’t actually get to talk to lucy again. does not prevent him from, once more, fucking things up horribly and running off like a little bitch, desperately hoping she’ll save his ass. 0/10.

1x06: kidnaps lucy and co, ties wyatt to a chair, threatens to kill him and monologues at him thinking they will be friends, “you still haven’t told them about us, lucy???” trying to sound like they’ve been having some passionate affair through history. delighted and proud when she sets him up with rittenhouse. fails at everything else. 0/10.

1x07: fucks things up horribly and runs off like a little bitch, but offscreen. 0/10.

1x08: doesn’t see lucy, but saves his brother and sees his momma and i will award him exactly one point for it. 1/10. don’t get used to it, flynn.

1x09: clearly just watched everything she and wyatt did so he could copy it when they go on their own undercover date in the 1930s in 2x06. odds of him pulling this off are very low. 0/10.

1x10: OH SWEET LORD. FLIRTS AWKWARDLY WITH LUCY. STARES AT HER ADORINGLY. THEY CHECK EACH OTHER OUT. THERE ARE MOMENTS. SHE EVEN HELPS HIM GET TO RITTENHOUSE AND HE FIGHTS WITH WYATT TO SAVE HER. THEN… NEARLY KILLS JOHN RITTENHOUSE, KIDNAPS HER, DRAGS HER OFF TO THE TIME MACHINE, RUNS OFF ETC ETC, BUT WITH HER. GOD. GARCIA. GARCIA WHY. 2/10.

1x11: the e p i t o m e  of the garbage date. he steals her a dress. in his favorite color. calls her “honey” pretending to be arguing with his wife. takes her for a drink at a table with a fucking little candle and tries to make her actually think he would ever kill her. sends her friends to the murder castle. lets her volunteer for HARRY GODDAMN HOUDINI MASTER OF ESCAPES while gazing at her with red construction paper heart eyes. is somehow surprised when this backfires. negative 100/10.

1x12: doesn’t see lucy, regrets all life choices. 0/10.

1x13: “lucy if wyatt saves his wife i’m single???” 0/10.

1x14: oh. my. god. sees lucy for the first time since the escape in 1x11. promptly orders karl to unhand the wife and gives her aren’t i sultry but obnoxious looks while she orders him not to kill charles lindbergh. only pretends to comply because he is the actual, breathing worst. looks really good in a bomber jacket, though. 1/10.

1x15: GETS RUFUS SHOT??? LIKE. THERE ARE NOT SUFFICIENT NUMBERS IN EXISTENCE TO RATE YOUR FAILURE IN THIS EPISODE. GO SIT IN THE CORNER. GO SIT IN THE CORNER GARCIA. EVEN YOU WITH ROLLED UP SLEEVES AND A SHOULDER HOLSTER BEATING UP A RITTENHOUSE GUY WILL NOT ATONE YOU. NEGATIVE ONE TRILLION/10.

1x16: is a lonely sad disaster hobo in a suit, plays with explosives, cries when lucy preston says one (1) nice thing to him, realizes that oh hey this journal thing was kind of a miracle, imagines her naked, flirts, then gets arrested. bellows at lucy that he will never forgive her. sure, garcia. sure. 1/10.

2x01: “i’ll only talk to lucy.” just. just. no effort. no effort whatsoever was made. 0/10.

2x02: has managed inventive way to talk to crush, gives intel but warns that the next one will cost her. nobody believes him. 0/10.

2x03: lucy tells him they need him and promises to get him out of jail. draws bad pictionary clue 2 seconds later; enjoys most extra day of his recent life during the jail break of his dreams, strolls into the bunker looking like sin and immediately causes sexual crises. enjoys it greatly. 2/10.

2x04: “what my wife failed to mention” and literally everything else. doodling “mr. lucy preston” in his notebooks. will fuck up the world if she tells him to. so in love he can’t see straight. yet again, no effort whatsoever was made, but he did save the wife and manage to be genuinely sweet to her. 3/10.

[mjalti]

it’s so crazy how we have NASA bc of the nazis (i dont mean this in a “some good comes from bad” sense bc i literally would happily trade NASA in for even one innocent human life, i mean it is actually crazy to me that we have NASA as developed as it is today bc of hitler’s obsessions) and how Wernher von Braun was offered a new identity and like totally a new life here in the usa to continue his research into the stars & how a french lady was so obsessed with him that she committed treason to sleep with him but he was in love with a german PE teacher who his mom didnt like, so he married his cousin. literally what is going on, ever 

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Check it out

[ladysophy]

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

[friend-clarity]

How Apple and the Media destroy civilization

April 15 2020, Latest Apple TV series: A historic counterfactual (something that did not happen). What if, in the summer of 1969, the world watched and listened as a Soviet cosmonaut – Alexei Leonov, perhaps – became the first human to set foot on the moon? ... 

The event sets off a flurry of activity on Earth, including Ted Kennedy cancelling a trip to Chappaquiddick to head up a congressional investigation into the U.S. failure to be first. (This in turn avoids the car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne and scuttled any future presidential hopes for Kennedy.) The plot thickens in episode 3, titled Nixon’s Women, after the Russians’ second lunar landing includes a woman. NASA scrambles to follow suit, recruiting five female candidates that include an astronaut’s wife (Sarah Jones), a black woman (Krys Marshall) and a closeted lesbian (Jodi Balfour). And from here the show’s history starts to diverge substantially from our own, as ice is discovered at the moon’s south pole, and the U.S. and Soviet Union race to establish the first base there.

In the world of the Left, democrat Ted Kennedy is a hero (*) and women, blacks and lesbians (by leftist ideology, ”victims” of old white men oppressors) are the super-heroes. When young people watch these productions in geat numbers, they become indoctrinated and true believers in leftism. 

(*) In 1969, Kennedy left a party with one of the women, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. Driving a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88, Kennedy lost control of his vehicle and crashed in the Poucha Pond inlet on Chappaquiddick Island. Kennedy escaped from the overturned vehicle, He swam to shore and left the scene, with Kopechne still trapped inside the vehicle. Kennedy did not report the accident to authorities until the next morning, by which time Kopechne's body had already been discovered.

Actual history: On December 24, 1968, in the most watched television broadcast at the time, the crew of Apollo 8 read from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the Moon. Astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman, the first humans to travel to the Moon, recited verses 1 through 10 of the Genesis creation narrative.

William Anders:  We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

James Lovell: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Frank Borman:  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

For All Mankind imagines a very different era of lunar exploration. Women astronauts feature heavily in the Apple TV+ series, set in an alternate 1969 in which the Russians made moonfall first. Chris Knight April 15, 2020, National Post.

It’s one of history’s great counterfactuals. What if, in the summer of 1969, the world watched and listened as a Soviet cosmonaut – Alexei Leonov, perhaps – became the first human to set foot on the moon?

It wasn’t a far-fetched idea during the Space Race. The Russians had already beaten their American counterparts to the goal of the first artificial satellite, the first man in space, and even the first soft landing on the moon, by a robot probe called Luna 9.

Had the Russian version of the Saturn V rocket, a bulky, balky beast called the N1, not failed four times in as many launch attempts, today’s nutty conspiracy theorists might be arguing that Russians had never landed on the moon. (As it stands, however, they’d be right.)

But for a fictional look at what might have transpired had the Soviets been the first to cross the cislunar channel, look no further than the Apple TV+ original series For All Mankind. And as it happens you can do so for free for a limited time, at apple.co/FreeForEveryone.

I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life

The first of the series’ 10 episodes sets the stage nicely, with Leonov taking that one small step and declaring, somewhat un-poetically: “I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life.”

The event sets off a flurry of activity on Earth, including Ted Kennedy cancelling a trip to Chappaquiddick to head up a congressional investigation into the U.S. failure to be first. (This in turn avoids the car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne and scuttled any future presidential hopes for Kennedy.)

The plot thickens in episode 3, titled Nixon’s Women, after the Russians’ second lunar landing includes a woman. NASA scrambles to follow suit, recruiting five female candidates that include an astronaut’s wife (Sarah Jones), a black woman (Krys Marshall) and a closeted lesbian (Jodi Balfour). And from here the show’s history starts to diverge substantially from our own, as ice is discovered at the moon’s south pole, and the U.S. and Soviet Union race to establish the first base there.

For All Mankind (not to be confused with the amazing 1989 documentary about the Apollo missions) is more than just an oddity for space fans, though it’s definitely that. The mix of characters both real (Colm Feore as rocket engineer Wernher von Braun) and fictional – the lady astronauts, each with a full-fledged backstory – make for some excellent drama. And it’s fascinating to watch the civil rights and sexual equality movements accelerate, even as gay rights get stuck like a capsule in low-earth orbit, going nowhere fast.

And without spoiling things, let’s just say that the series ends with a scene set several years into its future – circa 1980 – that made me glad it’s been picked up for a second season since its debut last November. No word on the release date, which may have been delayed by the pandemic.

The free period on Apple TV+ also features several other series, including the horror/thriller Servant, and Dickinson, starring Hailee Steinfeld as the American poet. There’s also The Elephant Queen, a nature doc about a pachyderm matriarch, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor. And there are several kids’ series such as Helpsters and Ghostwriter.

The Saturn V generated about 160 million horsepower. Snoopy has to make do with six birds. Apple TV And for younger space fans, Apple TV+ offers Snoopy in Space, a 12-episode series of eight-minute shorts that follows the famous beagle as he joins NASA, trains to be an astronaut, and travels to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.

I admire his determination, but the record of dogs in space is not a good one; Laika, while a national hero in the Soviet Union, was the first life in space but also the first death there, when she expired after several orbits of the Earth. But on a lighter note, the series recalls the long relationship between the space agency and the late cartoonist Charles Schulz. In 1969 the Apollo 10 lunar lander and command module were named Snoopy and Charlie Brown, respectively.

The series provides fun facts about space travel – What’s an orbit? How far away is the moon? – and an introduction to such hardware as the ISS, Orion space capsule and rovers, helpfully pitched at the younger set. Though the cartoon does feature the occasional error, as when astronauts on the moon’s surface watch the Earth rise – in fact, the Earth never moves in the lunar sky.

But it’s a forgivable lapse, especially when set against a lovely no-after-you moment, when Snoopy and his avian friend Woodstock each want the other to take the first step on the moon. It’s an exhibit of grace that could have benefitted Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – or indeed the former Soviet Union and NASA, erstwhile adversaries whose spacefarers now routinely share rockets and living quarters on the ISS.

As of this writing, the space station is home to three American-born astronauts and three Russian cosmonauts, all of them born in the USSR. Only one member of the crew is female, although the latest NASA astronaut classes have been a 50/50 split. And to think it only took half a century to get there.