Lord Mountbatten And Princess Alice
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Lord mountbatten and princess alice. Lady louise alice elizabeth mary mountbatten windsor born 8 november 2003 is the elder child and only daughter of prince edward earl of wessex and sophie countess of wessexshe is the youngest granddaughter of queen elizabeth ii and prince philip duke of edinburghshe is 13th in the line of succession to the british throne. Alice with her first two children margarita and theodora c. Lord louis mountbatten born in 1900.
As the brother of princess alice and the uncle of prince philip it was mountbatten who introduced the prince to his future wife a young elizabeth ii. His mother princess alice of battenberg. Lord mountbattens great grandmother was queen victoria and his sister was princess alice of battenberg prince philips mother.
The battenberg family later mountbatten was originally a family of german counts. Prince philips mother princess alice of greece was lord mountbattens eldest sister. Princess alice met prince andrew of greece and denmark known as andrea within the family the fourth son of king george i of greece and olga constantinovna of russia while in london for king edward vii s coronation in 1902.
The pair had a strong relationship and lord mountbatten even coached his great nephew on his love life. Lord mountbatten and princess alice 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. After his mother was institutionalized for schizophrenia prince philip lived with lord mountbattens family.
According to brittanica the first battenbergs were a family of german counts that died out. He was prince charless great uncle and was described by the royal as the grandfather i never had.