![]() On his accession in 1950 as Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Louise became Queen consort of Sweden. The 1st Marquess's youngest daughter, Lady Louise Mountbatten, married the crown prince of Sweden in 1923. The heir apparent to the marquessate is the present holder's son Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina (b. Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924–2017) m.Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979) m.George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (b.David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919–1970) m.George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892–1938) m.Lady Louise Mountbatten (1889–1965) m.Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark ( 1921–2021), m.Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914–2001) m.Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911–1937) m.Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) m. ![]() Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905–1981) m.Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, son of King George I of Greece Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885–1969) m.Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (1854–1921) m.Princess Alice of Battenberg never took the name Mountbatten as she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903 her son, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, took the name upon becoming a naturalised British citizen. He was at the same time made Earl of Medina and Viscount Alderney, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The marquessate of Milford Haven was created in 1917 for Prince Louis of Battenberg, the former First Sea Lord, and a relation to the British Royal family. Members Marquesses of Milford Haven Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven Prince Louis became the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, while Prince Alexander, Prince Henry's eldest son, became the 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke. (They rejected an alternative translation, "Battenhill".) Their cousin George V compensated the princes with British peerages. Due to anti-German feelings prevalent in Britain during World War I, Prince Louis, his children, and his nephews (the living sons of Prince Henry), renounced their German titles and changed their name to the more English sounding Mountbatten. Prince Louis married Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and became the First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy. ![]() ![]() Prince Henry married The Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria. Two of Alexander and Julia's sons, Prince Henry of Battenberg and Prince Louis of Battenberg, became associated with the British Royal Family. Julia was elevated in her title to Princess of Battenberg with the style Serene Highness (HSH) in 1858. The first member of the House of Battenberg was Julia Hauke, whose brother-in-law Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse created her Countess of Battenberg with the style Illustrious Highness (HIllH) in 1851, on the occasion of her morganatic marriage to Grand Duke Louis' brother Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine. The Battenberg family was a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany. The Mountbatten family are a branch of the German house of Battenberg. Lady Louise Mountbatten became Queen consort of Sweden after her husband King Gustaf VI Adolf ascended the Swedish throne 1950. The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, adopted the surname of Mountbatten from his mother's family in 1947, being a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg by patrilineal descent. The family includes the Marquesses of Milford Haven (and formerly the Marquesses of Carisbrooke), as well as the Earls Mountbatten of Burma. The titles of count and later prince of Battenberg had been granted in the mid-19th century to a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, itself a cadet branch of the House of Hesse. The name is a direct Anglicisation of the German Battenberg, or Batten mountain, the name of a small town in Hesse. The name was adopted on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from " Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" to " Windsor", by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom, due to rising anti-German sentiment among the British public during World War I. The Mountbatten family is a British dynasty that originated as a British branch of the German princely Battenberg family. ![]()
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