Risultati di ricerca
4 giorni fa · Prince Louis of Battenberg gave up his royal style and took on the surname Mountbatten, the anglicized version of Battenberg. The King offered him a dukedom but Louis declined because he was unable to maintain the lifestyle accustomed to that level of the peerage.
2 giorni fa · The king's British relatives with German names and titles followed suit with Mountbatten's father adopting the surname Mountbatten, an anglicization of Battenberg. The elder Mountbatten was subsequently created Marquess of Milford Haven. First World War
5 giorni fa · Nadejda Mikhailovna Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (28 March 1896 – 22 January 1963) was the second daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and his morganatic wife Countess Sophie von Merenberg. She was a younger sister of Countess Anastasia de Torby.
3 giorni fa · Ships in some UK port cities create more air pollution than cars. Milford Haven. Oil refinery jetty at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Milford Haven, port, historic and present county of Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro), southwestern Wales. It lies on the north shore of a deep natural harbour of Milford Haven, an inlet of the Celtic Sea.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 giorno fa · The Marquess of Milford Haven was a naturalised British subject who, after a career in the Royal Navy, had renounced his German titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten—an Anglicised version of Battenberg—during the First World War, owing to anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom.
5 giorni fa · Nantucket whalers are invited to found the port of Milford Haven in Wales. What does the arrival of these hardy Quakers – immigrants to America a century before – mean for the local people? And what is the meaning of the beached whale that preceded them?
4 giorni fa · May had six siblings: Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Marchioness of Milford Haven (1863-1950), married Prince Louis of Battenberg, had two daughters and two sons. Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (1864-1919), married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, no children.
