Ananstasia (Zia) Torby , daughter of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, GCVO, TD [1893-1973], of Luton Hoo, by his wife, the Lady Anastasia [Zia] Wernher, CBE, [nee de Torby], elder daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia [1861-1929], by his morganatic wife, Sophia Nikolaievna, Countess de Torby, elder dau of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, by his morganatic wife Countess Natalia von Merenberg [nee Pushkin]. Natalia was a daughter of the great Russian novelist Alexander Pushkin (killed in a duel by his wife Natalya Goncharova's lover, Georges d'Antháes).
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