Natasha Bagration

Princess Natalia Bagration of Mukhrani, Lady Jonhston (Georgian: ნატალია "ნატაშა" ბაგრატიონი) (19141984) was a Georgian noblewoman of the House of Mukhrani.[1][2]

Princess Natalia Bagration
Born(1914-04-19)19 April 1914
Pavlovsk, Russian Empire
Died26 August 1984(1984-08-26) (aged 70)
London
SpouseCharles Hepburn Johnston
FatherPrince Constantin Bagration-Mukhransky
MotherPrincess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia

Early life and ancestry

Princess Natalia was born in Pavlovsk on 19 April 1914 and was a daughter of Prince Constantine Bagration of Mukhrani and Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia. Princess Natasha was born into two prominent royal dynasties, the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty and the Russian House of Romanov. Due to her ancestry, she was related to British royal family, being second cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, second cousin of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent and fourth cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Later life

After the Russian revolution, she and her family went to live in Yugoslavia. According to memoirs of Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, she was his first childhood love.

Marriage

While working for Yugoslav government-in-exile in London she met and married British diplomat Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston on 24 April 1945.[3] Upon his being knighted in 1959, she became formally styled Lady Johnston. They had no children.

Death

She died on 26 August 1984 in London and was buried there at Gunnersbury Cemetery.[4] She had a brother Teymuraz Bagration who lived in the United States.

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References

  1. ბაგრატიონები - სამეცნიერო და კულტურული მემკვიდრეობა" - თბ. 2003 მუხრან-ბატონთა და ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანელთა გენეალოგია The Bagrations: Scientific and Cultural Heritage, Tbilisi, 2003, Genealogy of Lords of Mukhrani and Bagrations of Mukhrani
  2. Princess Natasha (née Bagration-Mukhransky), Lady Johnston National Portrait Gallery
  3. British High Commissioner Sir Charles Johnston and Lady Johnston visit ABC studios, Gore Hill A New South Wales Government Site
  4. Natalia Konstantinovna Bagration-Mukhranskaya Johnston Find A Grave
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