Prince Louis of Battenberg
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Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British royal family
Prince Louis photographed by Franz Backofen, c. 1865
Portrait of Prince Louis by Backofen in Darmstadt, 1869
HMS Agincourt, c. 1878
Prince Louis photographed by Elliott & Fry in London, 1884
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, was the third son and fourth child of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelmine of Baden. He was a brother of Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar Alexa
Prince Louis of Battenberg
…of Milford Haven were the maternal grandparents of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Louis was born on 24 May 1854 in Graz, Styria, the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia von Hauke. Because of his morganatic parentage, Louis did not inherit his father's rank in the Grand Duchy…
Photograph of Prince Alexander and his morganatic wife Julia