COUSIN OF KING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23010, 11 April 1938, Page 11

COUSIN OF KING

DEATH ANNOUNCED _ LORD MILFORD HAVEN LOXDOX, _ April 8 The death has occurred of the Marquess of Milford Haven, second cousin of King George. George Louis Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, Earl of Medina and Viscount Alderney, was a great-grandson of the late Queen Victoria. He was born La November, 1892. His father was Prince Louis of Battenberg, who became a British subject, and, entering the. Navy, reached admiral's rank and was First Sea Lord on the outbreak of the world war.

Prince Louis married a daughter of Princess Alice, Queen Victoria' 6 second daughter. Dropping his German title in 1917, he was made first Marquess of Milford Haren, and the family name was anglicised as Mountbatten. The son, at 13 years of age, joined the Navy, and as a lieutenant in the battlecruiser New Zealand was in the chief engagements in the North Sea during the war. For his services he received the K.C.V.0., the Russian Order of St. Vladimir and the Italian Order of Savoy. On his father's death in 1921 he succeeded to the title. The Marquess was placed on the retired list at his own request on December 8, 1932, with the rank of commander. He married in 1916 Nadejda, second daughter of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia by his . morganatio marriage with Countess Torby. ' The heir to the title is David Mountbatten, Earl of Medina, who is a midshipman in the Royal Navy. He was born on May 12. 1919, and educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He entered the Navy in 1933.