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Lieutenant David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, OBE, DSC (12 May 1919 – 14 April 1970), styled Viscount Alderney before 1921 and Earl of Medina between 1921 and 1938, was the son of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven and Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna of Torby.
The Mountbatten family is a branch of the German house of Battenberg. The latter family was a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, which formerly ruled the Grand Duchy of Hesse in what is now Germany.
Lieutenant David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, OBE, DSC (12 May 1919 – 14 April 1970), styled Viscount Alderney before 1921 and Earl of Medina between 1921 and 1938, was the son of the George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven and Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna of Torby. Lieutenant David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd ...
David Michael Mountbatten. The third Marquess of Milford Haven. Son of George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, the second Marquess of Milford Haven and Nadaja Mikhailonva Romanov, Countess of Torbay. He was born at Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Jul 25, 2022 · Her grandfather, David Mountbatten, the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, was Prince Philip's best man at his wedding to Queen Elizabeth. David and Philip were also cousins, and close friends...
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The marquessate of Milford Haven was created in 1917 for Prince Louis of Battenberg, the former First Sea Lord, and a relation by marriage to the British Royal family, who amidst the anti-German sentiments of the First World War abandoned the use of his German surname and titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten, an Anglicized version of the ...
David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919-1970), Businessman and naval officer. Sitter in 24 portraits.
