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The Bagrationi (Bagration) Dynasty

GENEALOGY

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[1888 - 1932] Lieutenant-Colonel H.S.H. Prince George Imeretinski [Kniaz Giorgi Mikhailovitch Imeretinski], Head of the Royal House of Imereti. b. at Moscow, 29^th May 1872, eldest son of H.S.H. Prince Mikeli, Head of the Royal House of Imereti, by his wife, H.S.H. Princess Olga Feodorovna, daughter of Count Ernst Georg Friedrich von Mengden, educ. Corps de Pages, St Petersburg. Page of Honour to the Emperor 1892, Cmsnd. 2^nd-Lieut. Sunjensko-Vladikavkazi Cav. Regt., retd. as Lieut-Col. 1905, farmer, writer and philosopher. Went into exile in the USA following the Russian Revolution in 1917. m. 1896, H.S.H. Princess Lydia Nikolievna (b. at Moscow, 1^st May 1880; d. at Besse-sur-Isole, Var, France, 20^th February 1956), daughter of Nikolai Trofimovitch Klimov, by his wife, Pelagia Afanasievna, daughter of Afanasi Yakovlev. He d. at Los Angeles, California, USA, 26^th March 1932 (bur. Serbian Orthodox Cemetery), having had issue, three sons:

1) H.S.H. Prince George Imeretinski [Kniaz Georgi Mikhailovitch Imeretinski], Head of the Royal House of Imereti - see below.
2) H.S.H. Prince Constantine Imeretinski [Kniaz Konstantin Giorgievitch Imeretinski], Head of the Royal House of Imereti - see below.
3) Squadron-Leader H.S.H. Prince Michael Imeretinski [Kniaz Mikhail Giorgievitch Imeretinski], AFC. b. at St Petersburg, 18^th February 1900, educ. Lancing. Cmsnd. 2^nd-Lieut. RAF 1918, served in the Great War 1918 in Belgium (rcvd: British War and Allied Victory medals), and in WW2 in RAFVR 1940-1945 (rcvd: MID, AFC, 39/45, Air Crew Europe stars, and RAF GSM), retd. Sqd-Ldr. 1946. Farmer, Mbr. Soil Assoc. m. at the Russian Church of St Philip, Buckingham Palace Rd., London, 10^th December 1925, Margaret Stella [H.S.H. Princess Michael Imeretinski] (b. at The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire, 14^th September 1899; d. at Menton, France, 12^th November 1986), former wife of The Hon. Patrick Charles Kinnard, MC, OStJ, and second daughter of Captain Henry Fitzherbert Wright, MP, JP, of Yeldersley Hall, Derbyshire, by his wife, Muriel Harriet, third daughter of Colonel Henry Charles Fletcher, CMG, late Scots Guards. He d. at Nice, France, 14^th April 1975 (crem. Marsailles), having had issue, three daughters:
- a) H.S.H. Princess Tamara. b. at Domaine de la Colla, Menton France, 5^th December 1926, Hon. Presdt. Bagration Cncl. m. (first) at St George's, Hannover Square, London, 21^st July 1945 (div. at London, 12^th June 1967) Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Mervyn Smith Dorrien-Smith, RN (b. at Ashlyns Park, Herts., 12^th May 1913; m. second, 20^th July 1967, Margaret Claire, Mrs. Philip Dalton Worthington, née Hugh Jonesand d. at Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly, 5^th December 1973), educ. RNC, Dartmouth, cmsnd. Sub-Lieut. RN 1927, served in WW2 (rcvd: 39/45 & Atlantic stars, and Naval GSM) prom. Lieut-Cdr. 1944, retd. 1946, second son of Major Arthur Algernon Smith Dorrien-Smith, DSO, Rifle Bde., of Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly, by his wife, Eleanor, third daughter of Edward Salvin Bolwby, of Gilston Park, Harlow, Mdsx. m. (second) at Fulham Broadway Registry Office, London, 13^th July 1967 (div. 1984) Rt Hon Charles Towneley (Strachey), 4^th Baron O'Hagan (b. at Middlesex Hospital, St Marylebone, London, 6^th September 1945; m. second, 1985 and div. 1995, Mrs. Mary Clive Parsons, née Roose-Francis), Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II 1959-1962, Chanc. Primrose League, MEP (Devon) 1973-1975 & 1979-1994, elder son of Major The Hon Thomas Anthony Edward Towneley Strachey, late Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), by his first wife, Lady Mary Sophia Strachey, sometime Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II (when Princess Elizabeth), youngest daughter of Major The Rt Hon Roundell Cecil (Palmer), 3^rd Earl of Selborne, PC, CH, JP, later Hants. Regt, sometime Minister for Economic Warfare. She had issue, two sons and three daughters, by her first husband and an only daughter, by her second:
  - i) Robert Arthur Smith Dorrien-Smith. b. 15^th May 1951, educ. Eton.
  - ii) James Augustus Bagration Smith Dorrien-Smith. b. 20^th July 1957.
  - i) Teona Judith Smith Dorrien-Smith. b. 29^th November 1946, educ. Cranborne Chase and London Univ.
  - ii) Alexandra Innis Mary Smith Dorrien-Smith. b. 11^th October 1948, educ. Cranborne Chase, and London Univ.
  - iii) Charlotte Sophia Smith Dorrien-Smith. b. 22^nd April 1954, educ. Cranborne Chase.
  - iv) The Hon. Nina Natalia O'Hagan. b. 16^th July 1968, educ. N Foreland Lodge, and Queen's Coll., Oxford.
- b) H.S.H. Princess Nathalia Margaret. b. at Domaine de la Colla, Menton 2^th August 1930, Presdt. Bagration Cncl. of m. at St Nicholas's Church, Tresco, Isles Scilly, 15^th May 1957, as his second wife, Terence James Stannus Gray (b. at Felixstowe, Suffolk, 14th September 1895; d. at Monaco, 5^th January 1986), founder and administrator Festival Theatre, Cambridge, Egyptologist, genealogist, viticulturist and author, son of Sir Harold William Stannus Gray, KBE, of Gogmagog Hills, Cambs., sometime MP and High Sheriff of Co. Antrim, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, by his wife, Rowena Elizabeth Dorothy, daughter of T.R. Stannus, JP, of Maghraleave, Co. Antrim. (Maghralreave, Lisburne, Ireland).
- c) H.S.H. Princess Nadejda. b. at Stetchworth, near Newmarket, 5^th February 1941. m. at the Calvin Auditorium, Geneva 19^th October 1963 (div. 1995), Karl-Heinrich Ebel (b. at Dömitz, Mecklemburg, Germany, 13^th April 1932), employee of the ILO, Geneva, son of Adolf Ebel, by his wife, Anna, née Wittler.

[1932 - 1972] H.S.H. Prince George Imeretinski [Giorgi Giorgievitch Imeretinski], Head of the Royal House of Imereti. b. at Tsarskoie-Selo, 16^th May 1897 (godson of Emperor Nicholas II), eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel H.S.H. Prince Giorgi Mikhailovitch Imeretinski, by his wife, H.S.H. Princess Lydia, daughter of Nikolai Trofimovitch Klimov, educ. Lancing. Cmsnd. 2^nd-Lieut. Gren. Guards, 3^rd MG Coy., and staff, transf. RAF Cadet bde., served in the Great War 1914-1919 (seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme 1917) (rcvd: British War and Allied Victory medals), rtd. Lieut. 1919. Succeeded on the death of his father as Head of the Royal House of Imereti, 26^th March 1932. m. (first) m. at the Russian Church of St Philip, Buckingham Palace Road, London, 28^th October and at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, 29^th October (Anglican rite) 1925 (div. at London, 14^th November 1932), Avril Joy (b. 27^th April 1910; m. second, 28^th March 1934 and div. 1948, Brigadier Hugh Nugent Gower, RA. m. third, as his fourth wife, Ernest Aldrich Simpson, late USN, the former husband of Her Grace The Most Noble Bessie Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, and was k. in a automobile crash, in Mexico, 28^th November 1978), younger daughter of Sir John Ashley Mullens, of Manor House, Haslemere, Surrey, by his wife, Evelyne Maude, daughter of William Ruston Adamson, of Rushton Park, Battle, Sussex. m. (second) at Kensington Register Officer, London, 17^th July 1933, H.S.H. Princess Margaret Venetia Nancy (b. at Hammerwood, Sussex, 1^st December 1912), elder daughter of The Rev. Rupert Stanley Strong, by his wife, Helen Nora Margaret, née Strousberg. He d. at Cheltenham, Gloucs., 24^th March 1972 (succ. by his younger brother).

[1972 - 1978] H.S.H. Prince Constantine Imeretinski [Konstantini Giorgievitch Imeretinski], Head of the Royal House of Imereti. b. at Palace of Vichnevetz, Volhynia, 18^th August 1898, second son of Lieutenant-Colonel H.S.H. Prince Giorgi Mikhailovitch Imeretinski, by his wife, H.S.H. Princess Lydia, daughter of Nikolai Trofimovitch Klimov, educ. Lancing. Succeeded on the death of his elder brother as Head of the Royal House of Imereti, 24^th March 1972. Cmsnd. 2^nd-Lieut. and served in the Great War 1918, retd. 1919. m. H.S.H. Princess Romina (d. in London, 6^th November 1974), née Lorraine. He d. at London, 20^th November 1978.

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