FAMILY CHANGE OF NAME 1917 - UK
(MOUNTBATTEN BY ROYAL WARRANT)
Lord Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke GCV GCVO formerly HRH Prince of Battenberg,
Member of the British Royal Family,
Grandson of Queen Victoria and
nephew of King Edward VII
Member of the British Royal Family,
Grandson of Queen Victoria and
nephew of King Edward VII
23/11/1886-23/02/1960
Burks Peerage and Barontage 1949
Lady Iris Mountbatten
Member of the British Royal Family
born 13/01/1920 - 01/09/1982
Great granddaughter of Queen Victoria
daughter of Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke GCV GCVO
second cousin of HM The Queen and first cousin once removed to
The Lord Louis Mountbatten
Lady Grace Mountbatten
born 31/07/1946
Great Great granddaughter of Queen Victoria
Great Great granddaughter of Queen Victoria
(only child of Lady Iris Mountbatten by her
marriage to Captain Hamilton O'Malley)
Family Change of Name 14th July1917
Dublin Gazette
LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN CHANGE OF NAME:-
Lord Louis Mountbatten Family Change of Name
by Royal Warrant
14th July1917
Lord Louis Mountbatten
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Prince Alexander of Battenberg
was born 1886
Queen Victoria died 1901.
He was therefore by birth Grandson
of the Sovereign.
He was also by birth nephew to King Edward 7th being the "son of
a sister".
If given a Peerage no matter what rank he takes by birth under the Act
31 H.8 Precedence of All Dukes [vide opinion of the late Lord
Redesdale].
This leads me to the conclusion that the whole question should be
settled by the Committee for Privileges as was the case with the Duke
of Cambridge in 1850.
[initialled; in Garter's handwriting]
17th July 1917.
Dear Lord Stamfordham,
Many thanks for your letter of the 16th July. The Patents of the three Marquesses have been dated accordingly as follows:
Marquess of Cambridge, 16th July,
Marquess of Milford Haven, 17th July, .
Marquess of Carisbrooke. 18th July.
I assume that it is intended that the Earl of Athlone's patent should be dated the 19th. There is no question of precedence in this last case since anyhow he will come after the Marquesses, but it seems reasonable that he should receive his Earldom after his elder brother receives his Marquessate.
We learnt last night that the warrants had been signed by the King. We are therefore sending the Patents across to the Home Office today and are asking the officials to hare thorn stamped at once. When this is done they will return them to us; we shall then affix the seal and everything will be ready.
You have probably been informed by the Home Office that in normal course the fees are supposed to be paid to that office before the sealing.
Yours very truly,
(sgd.) CLAUD SCHUSTER
The Right Hon.
Lord Stamfordham. C.C.B., G.C.V.O.
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The Battenbergs
by
This family finds its origin in the morganatic marriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse (1823-88), second younger brother of Grand Duke Ludwig III of Hesse and by Rhine. This prince accompanied his sister Marie to St. Petersburg in 1841, where she was to wed the future Czar Alexander II; he entered the Russian army, and later met and fell in love with Julie von Hauke (1825-95), whom he married in 1851. A few days later she was created countess of Battenberg and, on Dec 26, 1858, she and her posterity were created prince/ss of Battenberg.
Two of the couple's children eventually settled in Britain. The first was Ludwig Alexander or Louis Alexander (1854-1921), in whose family Queen Victoria took an interest when she visited her daughter in Darmstadt in 1863. Ludwig Alexander, with the help of Victoria's son Prince Alfred, moved to Britain in September 1868 at the age of 14, and in 1869 he entered the Royal Navy as a cadet, beginning a long career that ended in October 1914, when anti-German feelings forced him to resign as first sea lord of the Admiralty. He was sworn of the Privy Council on Nov, 5.
A certificate of naturalization (B321) was issued to him on 18 January 1909 (HO 144/594/B16148; see also HO 144/870/159961). (His biographies note that he took an oath of allegiance to the Qurrn on Oct. 14, 1868 before a public notary in Gosport.) He was styled in Britain "Serene Highness" (e.g., London Gazette 28749, p. 6075: "Admiral H.S.H. Prince Louis of Battenberg, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G."). By royal warrant of July 14, 1917 he received permission to relinquish the style of Serene Highness and Prince (both Hessian, not British styles), and to change his name to that of Mountbatten. By letters patent dated July 16, 1917 he was created marquess of Milford Haven.
Prince Louis Alexander had four children: Victoria (1885-1969) who married Prince Andrew of Greece in 1903, Louise (1883-1965), George (1892-1938) and Louis (1900-79).
Prince Henry Maurice (1858-96), younger brother of Louis Alexander, was a cavalry lieutenant in the Saxon army from 1877 to 1882 and in the Prussian army 1882 to 1885. He met Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Beatrice in Darmstadt, where she was attending the wedding of her niece, Victoria Alice of Hesse, with Louis Alexander, in 1884. Princess Beatrice overcame her mother's reluctance and was allowed to marry him on July 23, 1885. He was naturalized by private Act of Parliament (48 & 49 Vict. c.1) shortly before the wedding, and took the oath of allegiance before the House of Lords July 31, 1885 and was naturalized by private act 48 & 49 Vict cap. 1 (1885). He was made lieutenant-colonel in the army 1887, governor of the Isle of Wight and Carisbrooke Castle in 1889, colonel in the army 1893, PC in 1894. He died at sea after catching a fever in the expedition against the Ashantis.
Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858-96) and Princess Beatrice had four children:
- Alexander Albert (Nov 23, 1886-Feb 23, 1960) who was created marquess of Carisbrooke in 1917
- Victoria (Oct 24, 1887-Apr 15, 1969) who was styled Royal Highness in 1906 and married Alfonso XIII, king of Spain
- Leopold (May 21, 1889-Apr 22, 1922)
- Maurice (Oct 3, 1891-Oct 27, 1914)
On July 14, 1917 Alexander and Leopold received Royal Warrants giving them permission to relinquish the style of Highness (granted to them by the warrant of Dec. 13, 1886) and Prince, and change the name of Battenberg to Mountbatten. By royal warrant dated September 11, 1917 Leopold received the precedence of a younger son of a marquess. By letters patent dated July 18, 1917, Alexander Albert was created marquess of Carisbrooke.
At the time of Ena's marriage to Alfonso XIII of Spain, the following appeared in the Times(Apr 12, 1906, p. 8):
Supplementing the formal acknowledgment of the Protestant Reformation. Society's petition against the marriage of Princess Ena to the King of Spain, sent through, the Home Secretary to his Majesty the King, the following official reply has now been received at the society's office :—
Whitehall, 5th April, 1906.
Sir,—I am directed by the Secretary of State to inform you that he has laid before his Majesty the petition of the executive committee of the Protestant Reformation Society respecting the marriage of her Royal Highness Princess Ena of Battenberg.
I am to point out that the prohibition of Royal marriages without the consent of the Sovereign which is contained in the Act 12 Geo. III., c. 11, does not apply to "the issue of Princesses who have married or may hereafter many into foreign families."
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
HENRY CUNYNGHAME.
This is the first time, we believe, that an official intimation has been given that the King's assent is not necessary to this marriage contract.
As a matter of fact, few Battenbergs/Mountbattens have received royal consents for their marriages.
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