Word: battenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 17, 1917, King George V renounced his German titles, changed the name of Britain's royal house from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Following his request, his cousins of the house of Battenberg became Mountbattens...
...sixth in line to the Greek throne. But a year after Philip's birth, his uncle, King Constantin, was tossed off the throne. Philip, his parents and his sisters* became exiles. With his family, Philip sailed to England, where his mother's father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had gained fame in the days before World War I as Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty. From then on much of Philip's life was spent visiting relatives. Philip's favorite was his Uncle Dickie Mountbatten (the Battenbergs had Anglicized their German name during World...
...Lord Louis Mountbatten (né Battenberg) arrived from the East and apparently found Stalin prepared to talk about the Pacific war. Mountbatten's Hohenzollern cousins used to enjoy Potsdam...
Died. Princess Beatrice, 87, youngest, last-surviving of Queen Victoria's nine children, great-aunt of King George VI, mother of former Queen Victoria of Spain; in Balcombe, Sussex. Victoria's "precious little baby" married Prince Henry of Battenberg (later Englished to Mountbatten) at 28, after the. Prince agreed to become a British subject, and she to live close by the widowed Queen. At her husband's death, Beatrice succeeded him as Governor and Coroner of the Isle of Wight, permitted a deputy to conduct the inquests. In the tradition of royal British hobbyists, she played...
...heritage and training, Lord Louis is a Navy man. By blood and marriage, he is also related to many of Europe's royal families, including dethroned ones. His mother was Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse. His father was Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, a German who became a naturalized Briton in 1868, served 51 years in the Royal Navy and was First Sea Lord when World War I began. The name of Battenberg was too much for warring Britons: late in 1914, just a year after 14-year-old Lord Louis had become a naval...