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Lady Anastasia Mikhailovna Wernher (Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby; 9 September 1892 – 7 December 1977), also known as Lady Zia Wernher, was a German-born Russian-British aristocrat and thoroughbred racehorse owner.[1]

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  1. 86 relations: Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Alexander Pushkin, Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Anglicanism, Angus, Scotland, British flat racing Champion Owner, Cannes, Chapel Royal, Charlottown, Countess Sophie of Merenberg, County Kildare, Duke of Abercorn, Earl, Earl of Dalhousie, East Hyde, Elizabeth II, Elopement, Embassy of Russia, London, Epsom Derby, Exile, Faber & Faber, George Kennard, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, George V, Georgina Kennard, German Empire, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Grosvenor Square, Hampstead, Harold Phillips (British Army officer), Harold Wernher, House of Romanov, Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, Julius Wernher, Keele Hall, Kenwood House, Kingdom of Prussia, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, London, Luton, Luton Hoo, Mary of Teck, Meld (horse), Michael de Torby, Morganatic marriage, Myra Butter, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, Natalia Pushkina, ... Expand index (36 more) »

  2. Countesses of the Russian Empire
  3. Morganatic issue of Romanovs
  4. Wernher family

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Adolphe (Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich; 24 July 1817 – 17 November 1905) was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 23 November 1890 to his death on 17 November 1905.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

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Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia)

Alexandra Feodorovna (p), born Princess Charlotte of Prussia (13 July 1798 – 1 November 1860), was Empress of Russia as the wife of Emperor Nicholas I.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Angus, Scotland

Angus (Angus; Aonghas) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.

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British flat racing Champion Owner

The Champion Owner of flat racing in Great Britain is the owner whose horses have won the most prize money during a season.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Chapel Royal

A chapel royal is an establishment in the British and Canadian royal households serving the spiritual needs of the sovereign and the royal family.

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Charlottown

Charlottown (1963 – 1979) was a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

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Countess Sophie of Merenberg

Countess Sophie Nikolaievna of Merenberg, Countess de Torby (1 June 1868 – 14 September 1927), was the elder daughter of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau and his morganatic wife, Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina (who had been granted the title of Countess of Merenberg).

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County Kildare

County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland.

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Duke of Abercorn

The title Duke of Abercorn is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Earl

Earl is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom.

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Earl of Dalhousie

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East Hyde

East Hyde is a village in the civil parish of Hyde, in the Central Bedfordshire district, in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. Anastasia de Torby and Elizabeth II are British racehorse owners and breeders.

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Elopement

Elopement is a marriage which is conducted in a sudden and secretive fashion, sometimes involving a hurried flight away from one's place of residence together with one's beloved with the intention of getting married without parental approval.

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Embassy of Russia, London

The Embassy of Russia in London is the diplomatic mission of Russia in the United Kingdom.

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Epsom Derby

The Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies.

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Exile

Exile or banishment, is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose.

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Faber & Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London.

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George Kennard

Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Arnold Ford Kennard, 3rd Baronet (27 April 1915 – 13 December 1999) was an English soldier and author. Anastasia de Torby and George Kennard are Wernher family.

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George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

Captain George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (6 November 1892Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 901; Laufende Nummer: 150 – 8 April 1938), born Prince George of Battenberg, styled Earl of Medina between 1917 and 1921, was a Royal Navy officer and the elder son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (Prince Louis of Battenberg), and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. Anastasia de Torby and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven are German emigrants to the United Kingdom.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Georgina Kennard

Georgina, Lady Kennard (née Wernher; formerly Phillips; 17 October 1919 – 28 April 2011) was a British aristocrat who was considered "one of the best connected women in the country." She was connected to many prominent families such as the royal family and the Mountbattens, Grosvenors, Hamiltons and Burnetts. Anastasia de Torby and Georgina Kennard are Wernher family and Wives of baronets.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Михаил Михайлович; 16 October 1861 – 26 April 1929) was a son of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.

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Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (25 October 1832 – 18 December 1909) was the fourth son and seventh child of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia.

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Grosvenor Square

Grosvenor Square is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of Westminster, Greater London.

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Hampstead

Hampstead is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland.

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Harold Phillips (British Army officer)

Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips, (6 November 1909 – 27 October 1980) was a British Army officer, holding the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Coldstream Guards. Anastasia de Torby and Harold Phillips (British Army officer) are Wernher family.

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Harold Wernher

Major-General Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Baronet, (16 January 1893 – 30 June 1973) was a British military officer and diamond magnate. Anastasia de Torby and Harold Wernher are Wernher family.

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House of Romanov

The House of Romanov (also transliterated as Romanoff; Romanovy) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917.

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Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster

Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, (born 29 January 1991), is a British aristocrat and businessman.

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Julius Wernher

Sir Julius Charles Wernher, 1st Baronet (9 April 1850 – 21 May 1912) was a German-born Randlord, diamond magnate, and art collector who became part of the English establishment. Anastasia de Torby and Julius Wernher are Wernher family.

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Keele Hall

Keele Hall is a 19th-century mansion house at Keele, Staffordshire, England, now standing on the campus of Keele University and serving as the university conference centre.

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Kenwood House

Kenwood House (also known as the Iveagh Bequest) is a former stately home in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden

Leopold (29 August 1790 – 24 April 1852) succeeded in 1830 as the Grand Duke of Baden, reigning until his death in 1852.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Luton

Luton is a town and unitary authority with borough status in Bedfordshire, England, with a population at the 2021 census of 225,262.

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Luton Hoo

Luton Hoo is an English country house and estate near Luton in Bedfordshire and Harpenden in Hertfordshire.

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Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 186724 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V. Born and raised in London, Mary was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a German nobleman, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III.

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Meld (horse)

Meld (1952–1977) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Michael de Torby

Count Michael Mikhailovich de Torby (8 October 1898 in Wiesbaden – 25 April 1959 in London) was the son of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861–1929) and his morganatic wife Countess Sophie of Merenberg (1868–1927), and the great-grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Alexander Pushkin. Anastasia de Torby and Michael de Torby are morganatic issue of Romanovs.

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Morganatic marriage

Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to the spouse, or any children born of the marriage.

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Myra Butter

Myra, Lady Butter (born Myra Alice Wernher; 18 March 1925 – 29 July 2022) was a British aristocrat and thoroughbred racehorse owner. Anastasia de Torby and Myra Butter are British racehorse owners and breeders, Wernher family and Wives of knights.

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Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven

Nadejda Mikhailovna Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (née Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby, until 1917 Princess George of Battenberg; 28 March 1896 – 22 January 1963), was a member of the Russian imperial family who married a German prince but became a British subject and aristocrat. Anastasia de Torby and Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven are Countesses of the Russian Empire and morganatic issue of Romanovs.

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Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina

Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, later Countess of Merenberg (Saint Petersburg –, Cannes) was the daughter of Alexander Pushkin and the morganatic wife of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau. Anastasia de Torby and Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina are Countesses of the Russian Empire.

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Natalia Pushkina

Natalia Nikolayevna Pushkina-Lanskaya (Наталья Николаевна Пушкина-Ланская; 8 September 1812 – 26 November 1863) (Goncharova) (Гончарова) was the wife of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin from 1831 until his death in 1837 in a duel with Georges d'Anthès.

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Newmarket, Suffolk

Newmarket is a market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, located 14 miles west of Bury St Edmunds and 14 miles northeast of Cambridge.

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Nicholas I of Russia

Nicholas I (–) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Persian Gulf (horse)

Persian Gulf (1940–1964) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, who raced during World War II.

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Philip de László

Philip Alexius László de Lombos (born Fülöp Laub; Fülöp Elek László; 30 April 1869 – 22 November 1937), known professionally as Philip de László, was an Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages.

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Precipitation (horse)

Precipitation (1933 – 6 March 1957) was an influential British-bred Thoroughbred stallion who is found in the pedigrees of many racehorses and sport horses today.

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Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau

Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau (20 September 1832 – 17 September 1905), was the only son of William, Duke of Nassau by his second wife Princess Pauline of Württemberg.

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 19219 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Princess Cecilie of Baden

Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna of Russia (Ольга Фёдоровна; 20 September 1839 – 12 April 1891), born Princess Cäcilie of Baden, was the youngest daughter of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden and Sophie Wilhelmine of Sweden.

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Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810–1856)

Princess Pauline Friederike Marie (25 February 1810, Stuttgart – 7 July 1856, Wiesbaden) was Duchess consort of Nassau from 1829 to 1839 as the second wife of William, Duke of Nassau.

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Princess Sophie of Sweden

Sophie of Sweden (Sofia Vilhelmina Katarina Maria Lovisa Charlotta Anna; 21 May 1801 – 6 July 1865) was, by marriage, Grand Duchess of Baden as the wife of sovereign Grand Duke of Baden, Leopold.

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Province of Hesse-Nassau

The Province of Hesse-Nassau was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868 to 1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Royal College of Physicians

The Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to simply as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination.

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Royal warrant of precedence

A royal warrant of precedence is a warrant issued by the monarch of the United Kingdom to determine precedence amongst individuals or organisations.

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Russian Orthodoxy

Russian Orthodoxy (Русское православие) is the theology, religious traditions, and practices related to the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.

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Sanremo

Sanremo or San Remo (Sanrémmo(ro), locally Sanreumo(ro); Sant Rémol) is a comune (municipality) on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy.

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St James's Palace

St James's Palace is the most senior royal palace in London, the capital of the United Kingdom.

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St John Ambulance (England)

St John Ambulance is a charitable non-governmental organisation dedicated to the teaching and practice of first aid and the support of the national emergency response system in England.

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St Mary's Church, Luton

St Mary's Church is an Anglican Church in the centre of the town of Luton, England.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Stud farm

A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry is an establishment for selective breeding of livestock.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed for horse racing.

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Thorpe Lubenham

Thorpe Lubenham is a deserted settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Marston Trussell, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England.

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Tunisian campaign

The Tunisian campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces from 17 November 1942 to 13 May 1943.

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Welbeck Street

Welbeck Street is a street in the West End, central London.

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Wernher baronets

The Wernher Baronetcy of Luton Hoo Park in the Parish of Luton, Bedford, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Anastasia de Torby and Wernher baronets are Wernher family.

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Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden is the capital of the German state of Hesse, and the second-largest Hessian city after Frankfurt am Main.

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William, Duke of Nassau

Wilhelm (Given names: Georg Wilhelm August Heinrich Belgicus; 14 June 1792, Kirchheimbolanden – 20/30 August 1839, Bad Kissingen) was joint sovereign Duke of Nassau, along with his father's cousin Frederick Augustus, reigning from 1816 until 1839.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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17th/21st Lancers

The 17th/21st Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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1946 New Year Honours

The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946.

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1956 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1956 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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See also

Countesses of the Russian Empire

Morganatic issue of Romanovs

Wernher family

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_de_Torby

Also known as Anastasia Romanov, Countess de Torbay, Anastassia de Torby, Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby, Lady Zia Wernher, Zia Werhner.

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