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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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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 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
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.
After Lockers Park Prep School, and Naval Cadet School, Mountbatten served in the Royal Navy during World War I. He accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales on a 1922 royal tour of India (where Edwina Ashley met him and he proposed marriage) and consolidated a firm friendship with the Prince.
Alexander's son, Prince Louis Alexander, is aged fourteen when, influenced by Princess Alice, wife of his cousin, Prince Louis/Ludwig of Hesse (the later Grand Duke Ludwig IV), and daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, he joins the Royal Navy. In doing so he also becomes a naturalised British subject.
