Mountbatten family


The Mountbatten family is a British family that originated as a branch of the German princely Battenberg family. The name was adopted by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor. This was due to rising anti-German sentiment among the British public during World War I. The name is a direct Anglicisation of the German name Battenberg, Hesse, which refers to a small town in Hesse. The Battenberg family was a morganatic line of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, itself a cadet branch of the House of Hesse.
The family includes the Marquesses of Milford Haven, as well as the Earls Mountbatten of Burma. The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, adopted the surname of Mountbatten from his mother's family in 1947, although he was a member of the House of Glücksburg by patrilineal descent. Another prominent member of the family was Lady Louise Mountbatten, who became Queen consort of Sweden after her husband ascended the Swedish throne as King Gustaf VI Adolf in 1950.

Origins

The Mountbatten family is a branch of the German house of Battenberg. The latter family was a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, which formerly ruled the Grand Duchy of Hesse in what is now Germany. The first member of the Battenberg family was Julia Hauke, whose brother-in-law created her Countess of Battenberg with the style of Illustrious Highness in 1851, on the occasion of her morganatic marriage to Grand Duke Louis' brother, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine. In 1858, Julia was elevated in title to Princess of Battenberg, with the style of Serene Highness.
Two of Alexander and Julia's sons, Prince Henry of Battenberg and Prince Louis of Battenberg, became associated with the British royal family. Prince Henry married The Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria. Prince Louis married Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and became First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy.
Due to anti-German feelings prevalent in Britain during World War I, Prince Louis, his children and his nephews renounced their German titles and changed their name to the more English-sounding Mountbatten.. Their cousin George V compensated the princes with British peerages. Prince Louis became the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, while Prince Alexander, Prince Henry's eldest son, became the 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke.

Members

Marquesses of Milford Haven

The Marquessate of Milford Haven was created in 1917 for Prince Louis of Battenberg, the former First Sea Lord, and a relation to the British royal family. He was at the same time made Earl of Medina and Viscount Alderney, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Princess Alice of Battenberg never took the name Mountbatten as she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903; her son, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, took the name upon becoming a naturalised British citizen.
The heir apparent to the marquessate is the present holder's son Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
The 1st Marquess's youngest daughter, Lady Louise Mountbatten, married the crown prince of Sweden in 1923. On his accession in 1950 as Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Louise became Queen consort of Sweden.

Earls Mountbatten of Burma

Earl Mountbatten of Burma is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1947 for Rear Admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, youngest son of the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and the last Viceroy of India. The letters patent creating the title specified the following special remainder to his daughters. The subsidiary titles of the Earldom are Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, of Romsey in the County of Southampton, created 1946, and Baron Romsey, of Romsey in the County of Southampton, created in 1947. Both of these titles, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, have the same special remainder as the Earldom.
  • Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma m. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, daughter of Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple and great-granddaughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
  • * Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma m. John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne
  • ** Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma m. Penelope Eastwood
  • *** Nicholas Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne m. Ambre Pouzet
  • **** The Hon. Alexander Knatchbull
  • *** Lady Alexandra Hooper m. Thomas Hooper
  • **** Inigo Norton Sebastian Mountbatten Hooper
  • **** Alden Peter Theodore Mountbatten Hooper
  • *** The Hon. Leonora Knatchbull
  • ** The Hon. Michael-John Knatchbull m. Melissa Clare Owen, div. 1997, m. Susan Penelope "Penny" Jane Coates, div. 2006
  • *** Kelly Knatchbull
  • *** Savannah Knatchbull
  • ** The Hon. Anthony Knatchbull
  • ** Lady Joanna Zuckerman m. Baron Hubert Pernot du Breuil, div. 1995, m. Azriel Zuckerman
  • *** Baroness Eleuthera Pernot du Breuil
  • *** Alexander Zuckerman
  • ** Lady Amanda Ellingworth m. Charles Vincent Ellingworth
  • *** Luke Ellingworth
  • *** Joseph Ellingworth
  • *** Louis Ellingworth
  • ** The Hon. Philip Knatchbull m. Atalanta Cowan, div. 2000, m. Wendy Amanda Leach
  • *** Daisy Knatchbull
  • *** Phoebe Knatchbull
  • *** Frederick Knatchbull
  • *** John Knatchbull
  • ** The Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull
  • ** The Hon. Timothy Knatchbull m. Isabella Julia Norman
  • *** Amber Knatchbull
  • *** Milo Knatchbull
  • *** Ludovic Knatchbull
  • *** Isla Knatchbull
  • *** Wilhelmina Knatchbull
  • * Lady Pamela Hicks m. David Nightingale Hicks
  • ** Edwina Brudenell m. Jeremy Brudenell, div. 2004
  • *** Maddison May Brudenell
  • *** Jordan Anne Brudenell
  • *** Rowan Michael David Brudenell
  • ** Ashley Hicks m. Marina Allegra Federica Silvia Tondato, div. 2009, m. Katalina Sharkey de Solis, div. 2018
  • *** Angelica Hicks
  • *** Ambrosia Hicks
  • *** Caspian Hicks
  • *** Horatio Hicks
  • ** India Hicks m. David Flint Wood
  • *** Wesley Flint Wood
  • *** Felix Flint Wood
  • *** Amory Flint Wood
  • *** Conrad Flint Wood
  • *** Domino Flint Wood
The heir apparent to the earldom is the present holder's son, Nicholas Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne.

Marquess of Carisbrooke

Marquess of Carisbrooke was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1917 for Prince Alexander of Battenberg, eldest son of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom and Prince Henry of Battenberg. He was made Viscount Launceston, in the County of Cornwall, and Earl of Berkhampsted at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The titles became extinct upon Lord Carisbrooke's death in 1960, as he had no sons.
His siblings were:
, the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and grandson of the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, took the name Mountbatten when he became a naturalised British subject. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten married Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI of the United Kingdom, on 20 November 1947. In 1952, on the accession of his wife as Queen Elizabeth II, there was some dispute regarding the dynasty to which descendants of Elizabeth and Phillip would belong. Queen Mary expressed to Prime Minister Winston Churchill her aversion to the idea of the House of Mountbatten succeeding the House of Windsor as the royal dynasty, and so it remained Windsor.