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Sep 25, 2023 · It was even mooted that he should not have been permitted to join the British navy in 1868. In 1889, he was appointed Assistant Director of the Naval Intelligence Division. Through his extensive family tree, he managed to glean information to help the British military.
Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (24 May 1854 – 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British royal family . Although born in Austria, and brought up in Italy and Germany, Louis enrolled in the British Royal Navy at ...
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Feb 24, 2023 · On 28 December, 1858, when his mother became a princess, he became His Serene Highness Prince Ludwig von Battenberg. Battenberg expressed his desire to join the Royal Navy , and was sent to Burney's Royal Academy at Southsea, a crammer, to prepare for the entrance examination to the Navy.
He gave up his royal titles upon joining the British Royal Navy and took on the name Philip Mountbatten. In 1960, Queen Elizabeth II issued an Order in Council declaring that her descendants, when needing a surname, would use Mountbatten-Windsor.
Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon. Sir Louis Alexander Mountbatten, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, ADC(P), 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, 1st Earl of Medina & 1st Viscount Alderney, formerly HSH Prince Louis of Battenberg was born on 24th May 1854 in Graz, Austria, the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse & By the Rhine (1823-1888) and The Princess of Battenberg, formerly Countess Julia VON Hauke (1825-1895).
May 29, 2022 · Battenberg joined the Royal Navy on 3 October 1868 at the age of fourteen and thus became a naturalised British subject. At the behest of the King, Louis relinquished the title Prince of Battenberg in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, along with the style of Serene Highness, on 14 July 1917.
Ludwig Alexander, with the help of Victoria's son Prince Alfred, moved to Britain in September 1868 at the age of 14, and in 1869 he entered the Royal Navy as a cadet, beginning a long career that ended in October 1914, when anti-German feelings forced him to resign as first sea lord of the Admiralty. He was sworn of the Privy Council on Nov, 5.
