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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 ...
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
The Mountbatten family is a British dynasty that originated as a British branch of the German princely Battenberg family.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 ...
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Sep 25, 2023 · Louis Battenberg or Ludwig Alexander von Battenberg was born in Graz in modern-day Austria on the 24th May 1854, Queen Victoria’s 35th birthday. He was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823–1888) and the former courtier Countess Julia von Hauke (1825–1895).
Battenberg family, a family that rose to international prominence in the 19th and 20th centuries, the name being a revival of a medieval title. The first Battenbergs were a family of German counts that died out about 1314 and whose seat was the castle of Kellerburg, near Battenberg, in Hesse. The title was revived in 1851, when Alexander (1823 ...
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May 20, 2024 · Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of Milford Haven (born May 24, 1854, Graz, Austria—died Sept. 11, 1921, London, Eng.) was a British admiral of the fleet and first sea lord, who was responsible, with Winston Churchill, for the total mobilization of the fleet prior to World War I.
May 20, 2015 · Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, Prince of Battenberg, was born in Windsor in 1900 while his great grandmother, Queen Victoria, was still on the throne. Image source, Getty Images Image caption,
