The Marquess of Milford Haven | |
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Born | Prince George Louis Victor Henry Serge of Battenberg 6 December 1892 , Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire |
Died | 8 April 1938 London, England |
(aged 45)
Spouse(s) | Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby (m. 1916) |
Issue | Lady Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven |
Parents |
Prince Louis of Battenberg Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine |
Captain George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, GCVO (6 December 1892 – 8 April 1938), styled Earl of Medina between 1917 and 1921, was the elder son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (Prince Louis of Battenberg) and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine at Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire. His subsidiary titles included Viscount Alderney. He died aged 45 of bone marrow cancer and was buried in Bray Cemetery, Bray, Berkshire.
His siblings were Princess Alice (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to whom he was a mentor in Philip's adolescence, a role assumed after his death by his younger brother Louis), Queen Louise of Sweden and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
He married Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby (daughter of Russian Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich Romanov and his morganatic wife, Countess Sophie von Merenberg) on 15 November 1916 at the Russian Embassy, Welbeck Street, London. They lived at Lynden Manor at Holyport in Berkshire and had two children: