Arms of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven; Credit – By NoahHK – Maclagan, Michael; Louda, Jiří (1999), Line of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, London: Little, Brown & Co, p. 298, ISBN 0-85605-469-1 Invalid ISBN, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15659618
The Battenbergs were a morganatic branch of the Grand Ducal Family of Hesse and by Rhine. The name originated when Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, the youngest son of Grand Duke Ludwig II, entered into a morganatic marriage in 1851. In 1917, at the same time King George V changed the name of the British royal house from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor, the name was anglicized to Mountbatten, a name now very familiar to the British Royal Family.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was born Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark. He gave up his royal titles upon joining the British Royal Navy and took on the name Philip Mountbatten. In 1960, Queen Elizabeth II issued an Order in Council declaring that her descendants, when needing a surname, would use Mountbatten-Windsor.
- Prince Ludwig of Battenberg (later Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven)
- Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Marchioness of Milford Haven (daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and wife of Louis Mountbatten)
- Princess Alice of Battenberg, Princess Andreas of Greece and Denmark
- Prince Andreas of Greece and Denmark (husband of Princess Alice)
- Notable Issue: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Princess Louise of Battenberg, Lady Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden
- King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (husband of Lady Louise Mountbatten, no issue)
- Prince George of Battenberg, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
- Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby, Marchioness of Milford Haven (wife of George Mountbatten)
- Prince Louis of Battenberg, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
- Edwina Ashley, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (wife of Louis Mountbatten)
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