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Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon. Sir Louis Alexander Mountbatten, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, ADC (P), 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, 1st Earl of Medina & 1st Viscount Alderney, formerly HSH Prince Louis of Battenberg was born on 24th May 1854 in Graz, Austria, the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse & By the Rhine (1823-1888) and The Princess of ...
Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire. (HMS Daedalus) in 1955. On 13th July 1959, Mountbatten was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) - having been promoted to the 5* rank of Admiral of the Fleet in 1956. He succeeded Marshal of the RAF Sir William Dickson (1898-1987), the very first Chief of the Defence Staff. This new post was created in 1959 for ...
leaving the UK for the very last time on 18th February 1960. ABOVE: David Hicks & Pamela. (youngest daughter of Edwina & Mountbatten) following their wedding in January 1960. The Mountbattens celebrated on 13th January 1960 the marriage of their youngest daughter - Pamela, to the designer and interior decorator David Nightingale Hicks (1929 ...
Lord Leopold Mountbatten (1889-1922) Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg (1861-1924) IMPOSTER "Lady Grace/Grania Mountbatten" (1950-2021)
Mountbatten was promoted to the rank of Commodore in 1941 and moved to Combined Operations. He was given orders to prepare for a large scale raid and subsequently for an Allied permanent re-entry into the Continent of Europe. In March 1942, Mountbatten was appointed Chief of Combined Operations and a Member of the Chief of Staff's Committee ...
Iris' godparents were - Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria (1819(1837-1901); Princess Victoria Eugénie 'Ena' of Battenberg, later The Queen of Spain (1887-1969); Princess Helena Victoria (1870-1948); Lord Leopold Mountbatten, formerly Prince Leopold of Battenberg (1889-1922); and her grandfather - Sir William Denison, 2nd Earl of Londesborough (1864-1917).
Lord Leopold Mountbatten, GCVO (Leopold Arthur Louis; 21 May 1889 – 23 April 1922) was a British Army officer and a descendant of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the British Royal Family. A grandson of Queen Victoria, he was known as Prince Leopold of Battenberg from his birth until 1917, when the British Royal Family relinquished their German titles during World War I, and the ...
