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- Alexandra Anastasia "Sacha" Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, OBE is the wife of James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn. She is the elder daughter of Lt. -Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips and his wife, Georgina. Her younger sister is Duchess of Westminster. Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Harold John Phillips and wife Mary Mercedes Bryce, whose niece Janet Mercedes Bryce (daughter of Major Francis Bryce of Hamilton, Bermuda and wife Gladys Jean Mosley) married David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven. The Duchess of Abercorn and her children (as well as her sister) are in the line of succession to the British Throne, 630th, as direct descendants of Sophia, Electress of Hanover. They are direct descendant of the Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, as well as his African great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who was a protégé of Peter the Great. It is through their Russian grand ducal father that Alexandra and Natalia are descended from Sophia, Electress of Hanover. The Duchess of Abercorn is descended from Nicholas Wilhelm of Nassau and Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, Countess of Merenberg. They were married in London on 1 July 1868, one month after their daughter Sophie von Merenberg, Countess de Torby, was born on 1 June 1868. Although Sophie's descendants are not in the line of succession on her account, they are in the line as descendants of her husband, Grand Duke Michael, whose mother was Olga of Baden, herself great-granddaughter of queen Sophia Magdalena of Sweden, whose mother, queen Louise of Denmark and Norway, was the youngest daughter of king George II.
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