Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, PC, formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince. He was born in Austria, and brought up in Italy and Germany. He enrolled in the Royal Navy at the age of 14. In 1912 he was appointed First Sea Lord, the professional head of the British naval service.
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Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, PC, formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince. He was born in Austria, and brought up in Italy and Germany. He enrolled in the Royal Navy at the age of 14. Queen Victoria and her son King Edward VII, while he was Prince of Wales, occasionally intervened in his career. After a naval career lasting more than forty years, in 1912 he was appointed First Sea Lord, the professional head of the British naval service. His background as a German prince forced his retirement once the First World War began, when anti-German sentiment was running high. He changed his name and relinquished his German titles, at the behest of King George V, in 1917. He married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and was the father of Queen Louise of Sweden and Louis Mount batten of Burma. He is the maternal grandfather of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip of Edinburgh. He also served as First SeaLord from 1954 to 1959. He died in London, and is buried in Kensington Palace, London, on the banks of the River Thames, where he once lived with his wife, the Countess of Hesse, and their son, the Prince of Walsingham. He had a son, Prince Louis Mountbatten, who became the 1st Earl of Burma, and a daughter-in-law, Princess Alice, who was the wife of Prince Alfred, another of the Queen Victoria’s children.
His grandson, Prince Charles, is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a member of the House of Lords. His great-great-grandson is Prince Charles of Wales and Prince William of Wales. He served in the Second World War and was awarded a knighthood for his services to the British navy. He has also been awarded the Order of the Medjidie, the highest honour given to a non-British naval officer, for his service in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean. His granddaughter, the Duchess of Cambridge, is married to Prince Charles and has two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, who served in Afghanistan and the Falklands War. Louis was a naturalised British subject and joined the Navy on 3 October 1868, aged 14. His father was stationed with the Austro-Hungarian Army of occupation in Northern Italy during the Second Italian War of Independence. Because of his morganatic parentage, Louis was denied his father’s rank in the Grand Duchy of Hessen; and, from birth, his style of Illustrious Highness and title of Count of Battenburg instead derived from the rank given to his mother at the time of her marriage. His mother spoke French to him and he had an English governess, he grew up trilingual. He spent the next three-and-a-half years training in the Americas where he had missed his tour of duty.
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