Mountbatten Family Tree

Major children and living persons must directly contact the owner of this family tree. In accordance with the legal provisions you can ask for the removal of your name and the name of your minor children. Mountbatten was a well respected member of the royal family where does lord mountbatten fit in the royal family tree.
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Individuals with royal styles do not usually use a surname but some descendants of the queen with royal styles have used mountbatten windsor when a surname was required.

Mountbatten family tree. Under a declaration made in privy council in 1960 the name mountbatten windsor applies to male line descendants of the queen without royal styles and titles. Lord louis mountbatten was born in windsor in 1900. Lord mountbattens great grandmother was queen victoria and his sister was. Lord mountbatten was a british statesman and naval leader the fourth child of prince louis of battenberg.

The name was adopted during world war i by members of the battenberg family residing in the united kingdom due to rising anti german sentiment amongst the british public. Under an ambiguously worded order in council issued in 1960 the name mountbatten windsor is apparently the personal surname of some of the descendants of queen elizabeth ii and prince philip. Their only son prince philip 1921 took the surname mountbatten and was created duke of edinburgh when he became a british subject in 1947 and married princess elizabeth who became queen elizabeth ii in 1952. The title of count of battenberg later prince of battenberg was granted to a morganatic branch of the house of hesse darmstadt.

Deceased persons do not fall within the scope of these legal provisions. The mountbatten family is a british dynasty originating as a cadet branch of the german princely battenberg family. With his wife edwina mountbatten countess mountbatten of burma lord mountbatten was father to two daughters patricia knatchbull later 2nd countess mountbatten of burma and lady pamela hicks. The geneanet family trees are powered by geneweb 70.

25 june 1900 27 august 1979 was a british royal navy officer and statesman an uncle of prince philip duke of edinburgh and second cousin once removed of queen elizabeth ii. Mountbatten windsor is the personal surname used by some of the male line descendants of queen elizabeth ii and prince philip duke of edinburgh. This meant that under certain circumstances such descendants can officially carry the family name of mountbatten windsor link to windsor family tree. Admiral of the fleet louis francis albert victor nicholas mountbatten 1st earl mountbatten of burma born prince louis of battenberg.

The name is a direct anglicisation of the german battenberg a small town in hesse. Milford haven was the father of princess alice 18851969 who married prince andrew of greece 18821944. For his father the 1st marquess of milford haven see prince louis of battenberg. He had been married to lady edwina.