Hessian Royal family 1936-1937

Ludwig of Hesse, Cecilie of Hesse, Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, Georg donatus of Hesse, Sophie of Hesse, Eleonore of Hesse, Nadejda Mountbatten, Victoria Mountbatten, Princess Irene of Prussia hold Alexandar, Ernst Ludwig with his oldest grandson Ludwig.

“Nadeja, marchioness of Milford Haven and her sister countess Anastasia have got to be two of the most beautiful women I've ever seen” - Submitted by Anonymous

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).

Nadejda Mikhailovna Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, born Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby

Russian vintage postcard

Abram Petrovich Hannibal (Gannibal in Russia) was born an African prince, but kidnapped as a young boy about 1692 in East Africa and sent to Istanbul as a hostage. A year later he was sent as a present to Tsar Peter of Russia, who used him as an experiment to demonstrate his educational theories.

He was a brilliant student and soon became a favorite of the Tsar, who had him baptized and given the names Petrovich (after himself) and Hannibal (after the Black African General who was feared in Rome ). He became a fine General and Engineer and was appointed tutor to the crown prince, but after Peter's death court jealousies led to him being sent to Siberia on increasingly unimportant jobs. Eventually he was arrested and imprisoned.

The Tsarina Anna Ivanova rescued him and not only restored his position at court but made him Engineer General of Russia and awarded him the Alexander Nevski Medal.

He died a wealthy and revered man, leaving a wife and nine children, one of whom was the grandfather of Alexander Pushkin.

British aristocrats descended from Abram Petrovich Gannibal include: Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster and her sister, Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn. George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is also a direct descendant, as the grandson of Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven.

 Lady Louise Mountbatten and Crown Prince of Sweden Wedding: Front row, left to right: Lady Louise Mountbatten; Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of Louis Mountbatten; The Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven (grand-daughter of Queen Victoria); Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven; and Princess Andrew of Greece. Back row, left to right: The Crown Prince of Sweden; Lord Louis Mountbatten; George, Marquess of Milford Haven; and Prince Andrew of Greece. 

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Countess Nadejda de Torby, later Marchioness of Milford-Haven (1896-1963)

Baby Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark with his family in 1922.

Back row: George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Middle row: Edwina Mountbatten Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark seated on his mother's lap and Lay Louise Mountbatten.

Front row: Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark.

Lord Louis Mountbatten, George, Marquess of Milford Haven, Victoria, Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, Lady Louise Mountbatten, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece.

Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby and her fiancé Prince George of Battenberg (later George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven). Nadejda was the daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and his morganatic wife Countess Sophie de Torby. George was Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark’s younger brother. Around 1916-1917.

“I was surprised to find out how many connections the Vanderbilt family had to royalty. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt apparently had a lesbian relationship with Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven and was engaged to Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, a great-grandson of Queen Victoria and of Tsar Alexander II. Her sister Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness was the mistress of Edward VIII and was the person to introduce him to Wallis Simpson. Grace Vanderbilt was the guardian of Lady Pamela Hicks when she was shipped off to New York and the Mounbattens became very close to family. Consuelo Vanderbilt was proposed to by Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg (who was the brother of Prince Henry Battenberg, who married Princess Beatrice, a daughter of Queen Victoria) but she turned him down. No wonder Prince Harry did an interview with Anderson Cooper 😅. I’m sure there���s many more connections but I just find that all so fascinating.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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)

George Mountbatten and his wife Nadejda de Torby.

George was the son of Victoria of Hesse, elder sister of Elizaveta and Alexandra Feodorovna, making him the older brother of Dickie Mountbatten and a first cousin of OTMAA. Nadejda was the daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and his wife morganatic wife, Sophie of Merenberg. Nada was a first cousin of Irina Alexandrovna and her brothers, as well as Nina and Xenia Georgievna.

Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby, Marchioness of Milford Haven

Daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and his morganatic wife, she was a first cousin of Irina Alexandrovna and her brothers, as well as Nina and Xenia Georgievna. She married Prince George of Battenberg in 1916, the son of Victoria of Hesse, elder sister of Elizaveta and Alexandra Feodorovna. She and George had two children, Lady Tatiana Mountbatten and Lord David Mountbatten.

Nadejda de Torby, daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich, with her husband and children.