George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven, styled Earl of Medina before 1970, is a British hereditary peer and businessman.
Biography
Family
Born on 6 June 1961, Lord Milford Haven is the elder son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and Janet Mercedes Bryce, the older brother of Lord Ivar Mountbatten, and a descendant of Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great, Alexander Pushkin, and Abram Gannibal. Upon the death of his father on 14 April 1970, he became the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and head of the Mountbatten family. He is a second cousin of Charles III through their fathers.Lord Milford Haven married, first, Sarah Georgina Walker, in London on 8 March 1989. She is the daughter of Jean Maureen and George Alfred Walker. She is the former wife of Andreas Antoniou. Lord Milford Haven and Walker had two children:
- Lady Tatiana Helen Georgia Mountbatten, who works in public relations. She married Alexander 'Alick' Bernard Molyneux Dru on 23 July 2022 at Winchester Cathedral. Alick is the son of Bernard Auberon Alexander Dru and Catherine Margaret Norden. He is a great-grandson of Colonel Aubrey Herbert, great-great-grandson of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon and of John Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci and grandnephew of Evelyn Waugh. They have two children:
- * Elodie Dru
- * Auberon “Albie” Dru
- Henry David Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Medina.
Lord Milford Haven subsequently married Clare Husted Steel at Coatue Point in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on 20 August 1997.
Career
In 2000, Lord Milford Haven founded uSwitch, a website to help consumers compare and change suppliers of various services. The company was sold in March 2006 to the American media firm E. W. Scripps for around £210 million.He plays polo and Julian Hipwood has coached his teams. Lord Milford Haven won the Queen's Cup with the Broncos team in 1988 and he reached the final in 2006.