[1][2] Princess Natalia was born in Pavlovsk Palace on 19 April 1914 and was a daughter of Prince Constantine Bagration of Mukhrani and Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia.

At her christening, her godfather was Emperor Nicholas II and his daughter Grand Duchess Olga.

According to memoirs of Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, she was his first childhood crush.

[3] While working in London for the Yugoslav government-in-exile she met and later married British diplomat Sir Charles Johnston on 24 April 1945.

[5] She had a brother Prince Teymuraz Bagration-Mukhransky who lived in the United States.