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In April 1879, Langtry had had a short affair with Prince Louis of Battenberg, but also had a longer relationship with Arthur Clarence Jones (1854–1930), the brother of her sister-in-law and another illegitimate child of Lord Ranelagh. In June 1880, she became pregnant.
May 3, 2019 · The birth was a Victorian mystery, but Lillie herself related how Edward and his young nephew, Prince Louis of Battenberg, settled the matter with a flip of the coin, and Edward lost. Prince Louis later became First Lord of the Admiralty, and changed his name to Mountbatten.
Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (24 May 1854 – 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British royal family.
His liaison with Langtry commenced in 1877 and lasted three years. It was an open secret, generating notoriety and cachet for Langtry in equal measure. Around 1880 she began a relationship with Prince Louis of Battenberg (Louis Mountbatten), with whom she had a daughter.
Dec 15, 2017 · Lillie then became infatuated with a new man, Louis Battenberg, the prince's nephew, and soon found she was pregnant by him. Meanwhile, Edward Langtry's Irish estates were being ruined by political turmoil and the potato famine of the late 1870s.
Lillie also had a relationship with Prince Louis of Battenberg, by whom she had a daughter, Jeanne. Financial difficulties led to Lillie taking to the stage in the 1880s. While she was not a great actress, she was a crowd puller, because of her beauty and her notoriety.
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Lillie Langtry was the mistress of the future King Edward VII (while he was Prince of Wales) from 1877-1880. A married socialite at the time, she later embarked on a career in the theatre, with the encouragement and support of the Prince.
