Mountbatten Family

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.

Mountbatten family. 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. Lord mountbattens great grandmother was queen victoria and his sister was princess alice of battenberg prince philips mother. But lord mountbattens death. Mountbatten windsor is the personal surname used by some of the male line descendants of queen elizabeth ii and prince philip duke of edinburgh.

It is also well documented lord mountbatten had a strong presence in the lives of royal family members but none more so than his nephew prince philip and great nephew prince charles. Patent 1993334 in 1931 for a polo stick. Battenberg family english mountbatten a family that rose to international prominence in the 19th and 20th centuries the name being a revival of a medieval title. He was prince charless great uncle and was described by the royal as the grandfather i never had.

Mountbattens immediate and extended. Mountbatten introduced the sport to the royal navy in the 1920s and wrote a book on the subject. The mountbatten family is a british dynasty originating as a cadet branch of the german princely battenberg family. Because the crown is a historical fiction series and especially because its dealing with fairly recent history character deaths arent usually that shocking.

Mountbatten owned classiebawn castle a country house on the mullaghmore peninsula in county sligo that he inherited through the family of his wife edwina. Where does lord mountbatten fit in the royal 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.