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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 Battenberg, formerly Countess Julia VON Hauke (1825 ...
Mountbatten set about reform of the Royal Navy, reducing the amount of shore establishments and updating the Fleet with modern technology and weapons. Mountbatten was a successful First Sea Lord and did much to raise the morale of the Royal Navy, whose supremacy at sea had long been overtaken by the world superpowers, which Britain was no longer able to call itself.
EDWINA, COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA. Edwina's Final Years. Edwina in the uniform of. Superintendent-in-Chief. of the St John's Ambulance Brigade. Following their return from India, Edwina was not happy. She loved India and its people and she was saddened at the continuing disharmony throughout the country. In addition, she no longer saw Nehru ...
Learn about the fascinating family history of Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India and a prominent figure in British naval and political affairs.
Combined Operations & Supreme Allied Commander SE Asia. 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 ...
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 ...
