Georgina Kennard
Georgina, Lady Kennard 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 and the Russian imperial family.
Life
Georgina Wernher was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 17 October 1919, the second child and elder daughter of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Bt, and Countess Anastasia de Torby.She was the maternal granddaughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, and also descended from the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin and the Afro-Russian military officer Abram Petrovich Hannibal. The family's country home was Luton Hoo. Gina "came out" as a debutante in the 1937 "coronation" season, aged only 17 but already having completed her education with studies in domestic science.
On 10 October 1944, Gina Wernher married Lt.-Col. Harold "Bunny" Phillips, a former lover of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. They had five children:
- Alexandra Anastasia Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn known as 'Sacha' and was the goddaughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten
- Nicholas Harold Phillips
- Fiona Mercedes Burnett, mother of Alexander Burnett
- Marita Georgina Crawley
- Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, mother of Lady Edwina Snow and Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster
Lady Kennard died at her home in London on 28 April 2011 aged 91 years old.