Lord Mountbatten And Princess Alice Relationship
A great granddaughter of queen victoria she was born in windsor castle and grew up in the united kingdom the german empire and the mediterraneana hessian princess by birth she was a member of the battenberg.
Lord mountbatten and princess alice relationship. In episode 4 of the crown season 3 titled bubbikins we meet princess alice for the first time and get a peek into the estranged relationship alice has with her son philip. Princess alice of battenberg philips mother is lord mountbattens sister. He was prince charless great uncle and was described by the royal as the grandfather i never had.
However as a great grandson of queen victoria himself louis. He was the maternal uncle of prince philip his sister princess alice was philips mother and a second cousin once removed of queen elizabeth ii so his family ties were very close. Lord mountbattens great grandmother was queen victoria and his sister was princess alice of battenberg prince philips mother.
The pair had a strong relationship and lord mountbatten even coached his great nephew on his love life. Lieutenant philip mountbatten married princess elizabeth daughter of king george vi of the united kingdom on 20 november 1947. Prince philip duke of edinburgh the son of princess alice of battenberg and grandson of the 1st marquess of milford haven took the name mountbatten when he became a naturalised british subject.
Lord mountbatten was the uncle of the queens husband prince philip. Just to shed a little more light on that branch of the family tree connection. Lord mountbattens assassination in 1979 therefore has major reverberations on the shows characters and decisionsin fact it may be what brought prince charles and his wife princess diana.
As weve seen in previous series lord mountbatten born prince louis of battenberg was a formidable figure who exerted a strong influence over the windsors. Meanwhile lord mountbatten was prince philips maternal uncle. Philips mother princess alice of battenberg was louis sister.
Since lord mountbatten was a great grandson of queen victoria he was queen elizabeths second cousin once removed. In 1952 on the accession of his wife as queen elizabeth ii there was some dispute regarding the dynasty to which descendants of elizabeth and phillip would belong. At the end of the episode after the queen scolds mountbatten he goes to visit his sick sister princess alice and the episode alludes to the fact that the two dont spend much time together.
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