Nicholas Harold Phillips

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Nicholas Harold Phillips was born on 23 August 1947 in London, England. He was the son of Lt.-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips and Georgina Wernher and was married to Countess Maria Lucia Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, maternal granddaughter of Paul Crichton, Viscount Crichton, on 18 October 1975 in Salzburg, Austria.

Nicholas (Nicky) was a direct descendant of the Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin[1]; through Pushkin, he is descended from his African great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal (otherwise Ibrahim Hannibal) who was Peter the Great's protégé. [2]

[edit] Royal ancestry

Nicky and his sisters, including the Duchess of Abercorn, the Duchess of Westminster, and Marita Phillips are related distantly, via their Russian great-grandfather, to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. [3] [4]

Their maternal grandmother Lady Wernher was born Countess Anastasia de Torby (later Lady "Zia" Wernher), younger morganatic daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mihailovich of Russia (a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia) by his wife Countess Sophie of Merenberg, morganatic daughter of Prince Nicholas of Nassau (himself brother of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg by his wife, the younger daughter of Russia's greatest poet Alexander Pushkin. Lady Zia's sister Nadezhda (or "Nada") was wife of the George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, elder maternal uncle of Prince Philip. The Torby sisters were third cousins of the prince through their common ancestor Nicholas I. It is through their Russian grand ducal father that Nicholas was descended from Sophia, Electress of Hanover.

He died accidentally at age 43, on 1 March 1991.[5]

Children Charlotte Phillips b. 22 Dec 1976 Edward Paul Phillips b. 2 Nov 1981

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Wire Pushkin gets a makeover in the west
  2. ^ The Peerage A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
  3. ^ The Peerage A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
  4. ^ London tribute to honor contributions to conservation and the arts
  5. ^ The Peerage A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe

[edit] Citations

[S12] C. Arnold McNaughton, The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy, in 3 volumes (London, U.K.: Garnstone Press, 1973), volume 2, page 532. Hereinafter cited as The Book of Kings.