Sir Alexander Mountbatten
HH Prince Alexander of Battenburg
Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Kensington Palace, London
| Alexander Mountbatten | |
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| Marquess of Carisbrooke | |
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| Spouse | Irene, Marchioness of Carisbrooke |
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| Lady Iris Mountbatten | |
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| Alexander Albert Mountbatten | |
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| The Most Hon The Marquess of Carisbrooke Sir Alexander Mountbatten HH Prince Alexander of Battenburg |
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| Royal house | House of Hesse |
| Father | Prince Henry of Battenberg |
| Mother | Princess Beatrice |
| Born | 23 November 1886 Windsor Castle, Berkshire |
| Died | 23 February 1960 (aged 73) Kensington Palace, London |
| Burial | Whippingham Church, Isle of Wight |
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, GCB, GCVO (formerly Prince Alexander of Battenberg; Alexander Albert Mountbatten; 23 November 1886 – 23 February 1960) was a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria. He was a prince from his birth until 1917, when the British Royal Family relinquished their Germanic titles during the First World War.
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Prince Alexander was born in 1886 at Windsor Castle in Berkshire and was educated at Wellington College. His father was Prince Henry of Battenberg, the son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julie Therese née Countess of Hauke. His mother was Princess Henry of Battenberg (nèe The Princess Beatrice), the fifth daughter and the youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
As he was the product of a morganatic marriage, Prince Henry of Battenberg took his style of Prince of Battenberg from his mother, Julia von Hauke, who was created Princess of Battenberg in her own right. As such, Alexander was styled as His Serene Highness Prince Alexander of Battenberg from birth (because the child of a morganatic marriage is ineligible for "royal highness" status). In the United Kingdom he was styled His Highness Prince Alexander of Battenberg under a Royal Warrant passed by Queen Victoria in 1886.
Anti-German feeling during the First World War led King George V to change the name of the Royal House in July 1917 from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the House of Windsor. He also relinquished, on behalf of his various relatives who were British subjects, the use of all German titles and styles.
The Battenberg family relinquished their titles of Prince and Princess of Battenberg and the styles of Highness and Serene Highness. Under Royal Warrant, they instead took the surname Mountbatten, an Anglicised form of Battenberg. As such, Prince Alexander became Sir Alexander Mountbatten.[1] On 7 November 1917, he was created Marquess of Carisbrooke, Earl of Berkhampsted and Viscount Launceston.[2]
On 19 July 1917, he married Lady Irene Denison (4 July 1890 – 16 July 1956), only daughter of the 2nd Earl of Londesborough, at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace. Lord and Lady Carisbrooke had one daughter:
Lord Carisbrooke died in 1960, aged seventy-three, at Kensington Palace, and was buried at the Battenberg Chapel in Whippingham Church on the Isle of Wight. The title 'Marquess of Carisbrooke' became extinct upon his death.
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| New creation | Viscount Launceston 1917 - 1960 |
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| Earl of Berkhampsted 1917 - 1960 |
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| Marquess of Carisbrooke 1917 - 1960 |
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