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Lord Leopold Mountbatten
Born21 May 1889
Windsor Castle
Died23 April 1922(1922-04-23) (aged 32)
Kensington Palace
Names
Leopold Arthur Louis
FamilyBattenberg
Mountbatten
FatherPrince Henry of Battenberg
MotherPrincess Beatrice of the United Kingdom

Lord Leopold Mountbatten, GCVO (Leopold Arthur Louis; 21 May 1889 – 23 April 1922) was a descendant of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria. He was known as Prince Leopold of Battenberg from his birth until 1917, when the British Royal Family relinquished their German titles during World War I, and the Battenberg family changed their name to Mountbatten.

Early life

Prince Leopold was born on 21 May 1889. His father was Prince Henry of Battenberg, the son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julie Therese née Countess of Hauke. His mother was Princess Henry of Battenberg (née The Princess Beatrice), the fifth daughter and the youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

As he was the product of a morganatic marriage, Prince Henry of Battenberg took his style of Prince of Battenberg from his mother, Julia von Hauke, who was created Princess of Battenberg in her own right.

Winchester Cathedral, memorial to Leopold and his brother Maurice.

As such, Leopold was styled as His Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Battenberg from birth. In the United Kingdom he was styled His Highness Prince Leopold of Battenberg under a Royal Warrant passed by Queen Victoria in 1886.[1]

Leopold was a haemophiliac, a condition he inherited from his mother.[citation needed]

Relinquishment of titles

During World War I, anti-German feeling in the United Kingdom led Leopold's first cousin, George V to change the name of the Royal House from the Germanic House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the more English-sounding House of Windsor. The King also renounced all his Germanic titles for himself and all members of the British Royal Family who were British citizens.

In response to this, Leopold renounced his title, through a Royal Warrant from the King, dated 14 July 1917, of a Prince of Battenberg and the style His Highness and became Sir Leopold Mountbatten, by virtue of him being a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. Under a further Royal Warrant in September 1917 he was granted the style and precedence of the younger son of a Marquess, and became Lord Leopold Mountbatten.[2]

Death

Lord Leopold died on 23 April 1922(1922-04-23) (aged 32), during a hip operation.[3] He is buried in the Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore. A memorial tablet to him and his brother Maurice is in Winchester Cathedral.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles

  • 21 May 1889 – 14 July 1917: His Highness Prince Leopold of Battenberg
    • In Germany: His Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Battenberg
  • 14 July – September 1917: Sir Leopold Mountbatten
  • September 1917 – 23 April 1922: Lord Leopold Mountbatten

Honours

Military

Ancestry

Family of Lord Leopold Mountbatten
16. Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
8. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
17. Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt
4. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
18. Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden
19. Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
2. Prince Henry of Battenberg
20. Friedrich Carl Emanuel Hauke
10. Count John Maurice Hauke
21. Maria Salomé Schweppenhäuser
5. Countess Julia Hauke
22. Franz Leopold Lafontaine
11. Sophie Lafontaine
23. Maria Theresia von Kornély
1. Lord Leopold Mountbatten
24. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
12. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
25. Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf
6. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
26. Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
13. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
27. Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
3. Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
28. George III of the United Kingdom
14. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
29. Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
7. Victoria of the United Kingdom
30. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (= 24)
15. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
31. Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf (= 25)

References

  1. ^ "No. 25655". The London Gazette. 14 December 1886.
  2. ^ "No. 30374". The London Gazette. 9 November 1917.
  3. ^ Leopold Arthur Louis Mountbatten profile, rodovid.org; retrieved 5 June 2010.
  4. ^ "No. 28297". The London Gazette. 15 October 1909.
  5. ^ "No. 28654". The London Gazette. 18 October 1912.
  6. ^ "No. 29001". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 8 December 1914.
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