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Princess Natalia Bagration (Georgian: ნატალია "ნატაშა" ბაგრატიონი) (1914–1984) was a Georgian noblewoman of the House of Mukhrani.
Princess Natalia was born on 19 April 1914 and was a daughter of Prince Constantine Bagration of Mukhrani and Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia. Princess Natasha was born into two prominent royal dynasties, the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty and the Russian House of Romanov. Due to her ancestry, she was related to British royal family, being second cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and fourth cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
After the Russian revolution, she and her family went to live in Yugoslavia. According to memoirs of Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, she was his first love.
While working for Yugoslav government-in-exile in London she met and married British diplomat Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston on 24 April 1945. Upon his being knighted in 1959, she became formally styled Lady Johnston. They had no children.
She died on 26 August 1984 in London and was buried there at Gunnersbury Cemetery. She had a brother Teymuraz Bagration who lived in the United States.
