Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven

Nadejda Mikhailovna Mountbatten
Marchioness of Milford Haven
Nadejda de Torby, c. 1914
Born	(1896-03-28)28 March 1896 Cannes, France
Died	22 January 1963(1963-01-22) (aged 66) Cannes, France
Burial	Bray Cemetery, Bray, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Spouse	Prince George of Battenberg (m. 1916; d. 1938)
Issue	Lady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
House	Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father	Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia
Mother	Countess Sophie von Merenberg

Nadejda Mikhailovna Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (28 March 1896 – 22 January 1963) was the second daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and his morganatic wife Countess Sophie von Merenberg. She was a younger sister of Countess Anastasia de Torby.

Her paternal grandparents were Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and Princess Cecily of Baden. Michael was the seventh and last child of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. Her mother was a granddaughter of Aleksandr Pushkin, who in turn was a great-grandson of Peter the Great's African protégé, Abram Petrovich Gannibal.

Nicknamed "Nada", she married Prince George of Battenberg, later the 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, in London, England, on 15 November 1916. They had two children:

During the 1934 Gloria Vanderbilt custody trial, a former maid of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt's offered testimony regarding a possible lesbian relationship between Lady Milford Haven and her former employer. Lady Milford Haven also appeared as a witness at the trial. Before leaving for the United States to testify, Lady Milford Haven publicly denounced the maid's testimony as "a set of malicious, terrible lies".

Nada and her sister-in-law, Edwina Mountbatten (wife of Lord Mountbatten), were extremely close friends and the two frequently went together on rather daring adventures, traveling rough in difficult and often dangerous parts of the world.