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The Battenberg family was a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany. The first member was Countess Julia Hauke whose brother-in-law, Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse, created her Countess of Battenberg at her morganatic marriage to his brother, Prince Alexander of Hesse, in 1851 and Princess ...
She was perceived by her family as liberal in outlook, straightforward, practical and bright. The couple had four children: Alice , Louise , George , and Louis . During World War I , Victoria and her husband abandoned their German titles and adopted the surname of Mountbatten , which was an anglicised version of the German "Battenberg".
Queen Victoria. Signature. Princess Beatrice (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Beatrice was also the last of Queen Victoria's children to die, nearly 66 years after the first, her elder sister Alice .
Ypres Salient †. Prince Maurice of Battenberg (Maurice Victor Donald; 3 October 1891 – 27 October 1914) was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British royal family, and the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria. He was known as Prince Maurice throughout his life, since he died before the British royal family ...
Signature. Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten (born Princess Louise of Battenberg; 13 July 1889 – 7 March 1965) was Queen of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until her death in 1965 as the wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf. Born a princess of the German House of Battenberg, Louise was closely related to the ruling families of Britain as a great ...
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 ...
12 nov 2020 · Just to shed a little more light on that branch of the family-tree connection: Princess Alice of Battenberg, Philip’s mother, is Lord Mountbatten’s sister. Episode 4 of The Crown season 3, titled “Bubbikins,” introduces Princess Alice , and shows the estranged relationship Alice has with her son, Philip.
