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Sep 25, 2023 · When Louis was promoted to the rank of navy commander in 1885, a group of xenophobic politicians questioned why a foreigner was being promoted instead of hard-working British men. It was even mooted that he should not have been permitted to join the British navy in 1868.
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.
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.
- May 24, 1854
- September 11, 1921
Feb 3, 2024 · After a career in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy lasting over forty years, in 1912 he was appointed First Sea Lord, the senior uniformed officer in the British naval staff.
Consequently, four Royal Navy carriers joined Spruance’s Fifth Fleet as Task Force Fifty-Seven. The British flew a mixture of aircraft—their own Supermarine Seafires, Fairey Firefly strike-fighters, and Fairey Barracuda dive bombers, plus Corsairs, Hellcats, and Avengers.
