Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

As Prince Henry was the product of a morganatic marriage, he took his style of Prince of Battenberg from his mother, who had been created Princess of Battenberg in her own right. As such, Henry's children would normally have been born with the style "Serene Highness"; however, Queen Victoria had issued a Royal Warrant on 4 December 1886 granting the higher style of "Highness" to all sons and daughters of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice, thus she was born Her Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.^[1] She was named for her grandmother, and for her godmother, Empress Eugénie of the French, the Spanish-born widow of the former Emperor of the French Napoleon III, who lived in exile in the United Kingdom. To her family, and the British general public, she was known by the last of her names, as Ena.

Victoria Eugenie grew up in Queen Victoria's household, as the British monarch had reluctantly allowed Beatrice to marry on the condition that she remain her mother's full-time companion and personal secretary. Therefore, she spent her childhood at Windsor Castle, Balmoral, and Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousins, the Duke (later King George V) and Duchess of York on 6 July 1893.^[2]

Her father died while on active military service after contracting fever in Africa in 1896. After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the Battenbergs moved to London and took up residence in Kensington Palace.

Engagement

Victoria Eugenie dressed in Spanish fashion, as painted by Joaquín Sorolla

In 1905, the King of Spain made an official state visit to the United Kingdom. Victoria Eugenie's uncle, King Edward VII, hosted a dinner in Buckingham Palace, in honour of the Spanish king. Alfonso was seated between Queen Alexandra and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, King Edward's sister. He noticed Victoria Eugenie and asked who was the dinner guest with almost white hair. Everybody knew that King Alfonso was looking for a suitable bride and one of the strongest candidates was Princess Patricia of Connaught, daughter of King Edward's brother, the Duke of Connaught. As Princess Patricia seemed not to be impressed by the Spanish monarch, Alfonso indulged his interest in Victoria Eugenie, and so the courtship began. When Alfonso returned to Spain he frequently sent postcards to Victoria Eugenie and spoke of her approvingly. His widowed mother, Queen Maria Cristina, did not like her son's choice, in part because she considered the Battenbergs non-royal because of the obscure origin of Prince Henry's mother, and in part because she wanted her son to marry within her own family, the Habsburgs from Austria. Another obstacle to a marriage was Victoria Eugenie's Protestantism (Alfonso was Roman Catholic; she was Anglican). Another potential problem was haemophilia, the disease that Victoria had transmitted to some of her descendants. Eugenie's brother Leopold was a haemophiliac, so there was a 50% probability that Victoria Eugenie would be a carrier, although the degree of risk was not yet known. Still, if Alfonso married her, their issue could be affected by the disease. Nonetheless, Alfonso was not dissuaded.

After a year of rumours about which princess Alfonso would marry, his mother finally acceded to her son's selection in January 1906 and wrote a letter to Princess Henry of Battenberg, Victoria Eugenie's mother, telling her about the love Alfonso felt for her daughter and seeking unofficial contact with the king. Some days later at Windsor, King Edward congratulated his niece on her future engagement.

Princess Beatrice and her daughter arrived in Biarritz on 22 January and stayed at the Villa Mauriscot where some days later King Alfonso met them. At the Villa Mauriscot, Alfonso and his future bride conducted a chaperoned, three-day romance. Then, Alfonso took Victoria Eugenie and her mother to San Sebastián to meet Queen Maria Cristina. On 3 February, the king left San Sebastian to go to Madrid and Victoria Eugenie and her mother went to Versailles where the Princess would be instructed in the Catholic faith: As the future Queen of Spain, she agreed to convert. The official reception of Victoria Eugenie into the Catholic faith took place on 5 March 1906 at Miramar Palace in San Sebastián.

The terms of the marriage were settled by two agreements, a public treaty and a private contractual arrangement. The treaty was executed between Spain and the United Kingdom in London on 7 May 1906 by their respective plenipotentiaries, the Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Don Luis Polo de Bernabé, and the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, Bt. Ratifications were exchanged on 23 May following. Among other conditions, the treaty stipulated:

BE it known unto all men by these Presents that whereas His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, has judged it proper to announce his intention of contracting a marriage with Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena, niece of His Majesty Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and daughter of Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore (Princess Henry of Battenberg)...Article I. It is concluded and agreed that the marriage between His said Majesty King Alfonso XIII and Her said Royal Highness the Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena shall be solemnized in person at Madrid as soon as the same may conveniently be done. II. His said Majesty King Alfonso XIII engages to secure to Her said Royal Highness the Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena from the date of her marriage with His Majesty, and for the whole period of the marriage, an annual grant of 450,000 pesetas. His said Majesty King Alfonso XIII also engages, if, by the will of Divine Providence, the said Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena should become his widow, to secure to her, from the date of his death, an annual grant of 250,000 pesetas, unless and until she contracts a second marriage, both these grants having already been voted by the Cortes. The private settlements to be made on either side in regard to the said marriage will be agreed upon and expressed in a separate Contract, which shall, however, be deemed to form an integral part of the present Treaty...III. The High Contracting Parties take note of the fact that Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena, according to the due tenor of the law of England, forfeits for ever all hereditary rights of succession to the Crown and Government of Great Britain...^[3]

The treaty's reference to the forfeiture of Victoria Eugénie's British succession rights reflected neither the British government's censure of the alliance, nor any renunciation made by her. Rather, it was an explicit recognition of the fact that by marrying (and becoming) a Roman Catholic, Victoria Eugénie lost any right to inherit the British crown as a consequence of Britain's Act of Settlement. This exclusion was personal and limited: those among her descendants who do not become Roman Catholic remain in the line of succession to the British Throne.

Despite this treaty, concern about reaction to the marriage and to Victoria Eugénie's conversion among Protestants was accommodated by the British government's decision that King Edward need not grant official consent to the marriage in his Privy Council, despite the fact that his niece was a British subject. Although the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 requires that descendants of King George II obtain the British sovereign's prior permission to marry by Order in Council, an exception exists for descendants of royal daughters who marry "into foreign families". Although the naturalisation of Victoria Eugénie's father in the United Kingdom had been initiated in Parliament a week prior to his marriage to Princess Beatrice, the nuptials were completed before the naturalisation, thus the Government was able to take the position that Victoria Eugénie was not bound by the Royal Marriages Act, and therefore the British king had legal authority neither to authorise nor forbid her marriage.

The King did, however, issue a royal warrant which read:

"Our Will and Pleasure is and we do hereby declare and ordain that from and after the date of this Warrant our Most Dear Niece Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena, only daughter of Our Most Dear Sister Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore (Princess Henry of Battenberg) shall be styled entitled and called Her Royal Highness before her name and such Titles and Appellations which to her belong in all Deeds Records Instruments or Documents whatsoever wherein she may at any time hereafter be named or described. And We do hereby authorize and empower Our said Most Dear Niece henceforth at all times to assume and use and to be called and named by the Style, Title and Appellation of Her Royal Highness accordingly. Given at Our Court of Saint James's, the Third day of April 1906: in the Sixth Year of Our Reign. By His Majesty's Command. M Gladstone"^[4]

This was accompanied by a formal published declaration which read: "Whitehall 3 April 1906. The KING has been graciously pleased to declare and ordain that His Majesty's niece, Her Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena, daughter of Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore (Princess Henry of Battenberg), shall henceforth be styled and called "Her Royal Highness"; And to command that the said Royal concession and declaration be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms."^[5]

Queen of Spain

Assassination attempt of 1906

Queen Victoria Eugenie, in 1918, with her six children: (from left to right) Infanta Maria Cristina, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, Infante Gonzalo, Infante Juan, Infante Jaime and Infanta Beatriz.

Princess Victoria Eugenie married King Alfonso XIII at the Royal Monastery of San Jerónimo in Madrid on 31 May 1906. Present at the ceremony were her widowed mother and brothers, as well as her cousins, the Prince and Princess of Wales.

After the wedding ceremony, the royal procession was heading back to the Royal Palace when an assassination attempt was made on the King and Queen. When Anarchist Mateu Morral threw a bomb from a balcony at the royal carriage. Victoria Eugenie's life was saved because, at the exact moment the bomb exploded, she turned her head in order to see St. Mary's Church, which Alfonso was showing her. She escaped injury, although her dress was spotted with the blood of a guard who was riding beside the carriage. There exists a large statue in front of the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo dedicated to the victims of the bombing of May 31, 1906.

After the inauspicious start to her tenure as Queen of Spain, Victoria Eugenie became isolated from the Spanish people and was unpopular in her new land. Her married life improved when she gave birth to a son and heir-apparent to the kingdom, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias. However, while the baby prince was being circumcised, the doctors noted that he did not stop bleeding — the first sign that the infant heir had haemophilia. Victoria Eugenie was the obvious source of the condition, which was inherited by her eldest and youngest sons. Contrary to the response of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, whose son and heir by another granddaughter of Queen Victoria was similarly afflicted, Alfonso is alleged never to have forgiven Victoria Eugenie nor to have come to terms with what had happened. In all, King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie had seven children, five sons and two daughters. Neither of their daughters is known to have been a carrier of haemophilia.

After the births of their children, Victoria Eugenie's relationship with Alfonso deteriorated, and he had numerous affairs. It has been said that he had a dalliance with the Queen's cousin, Beatrice, Duchess of Galliera, but this is not true. There is some evidence that Alfonso tried to seduce Beatrice, but she didn't give in. The king, in anger, expelled her and her husband from Spain. Then members of the king's circle spread rumours that Beatrice had been expelled because of her bad behaviour, which was not true. All this situation was very painful for the Queen, who could do nothing to help her cousin.

Victoria Eugenie devoted herself to work for hospitals and services for the poor, as well as to education. She was also involved in the reorganization of the Spanish Red Cross. In 1929, the city of Barcelona erected a statue of her in a nurse's uniform in honor of her Red Cross work (the statue has since been destroyed). Various Spanish landmarks have been named after Victoria Eugenie. For instance, in 1909, Madrid's stately neoclassical bridge crossing the Manzanares River was named after her as the "Puente de la Reina Victoria". In 1912, the monumental opera house and theater "Teatro Victoria Eugenia" in San Sebastián, Spain, was named after her. In 1920, she launched the Spanish Navy Cruiser Reina Victoria Eugenia which was named after her.

She was the 976th Dame of the Royal Order of Queen Maria Luisa. In 1923, the Pope conferred upon her the Golden Rose which was the first time this honor had been awarded on a British-born princess since 1555 when Pope Julius III conferred one upon Queen Mary I of England.^[6] She was also granted the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert by her grandmother, Queen Victoria. The Queen was also awarded the Spanish Red Cross Merit Order (First Class) and the jewelled breast star was paid for by a subscription undertaken by the Corps of Lady Nurses of the Spanish Red Cross.

Exile

The Spanish royal family went into exile on 14 April 1931 after municipal elections brought Republicans to power in most of the major cities, leading to the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. Alfonso XIII had hoped that his voluntary exile might avert a civil war between the Republicans and the Monarchists. The royal family went to live in France and later Italy. Victoria Eugenie and Alfonso later separated, and she lived partly in the UK and, after being invited to leave Britain by its government, in Switzerland. She purchased a chateau, the Vieille Fontaine, outside Lausanne.

In 1938, the whole family gathered in Rome for the baptism at the Palazzo Malta of Juan's eldest son, Infante Juan Carlos by Vatican Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli (who stood in for the dying Pope Pius XI and would himself become Pope Pius XII in a few months). On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII, feeling his death was near, transferred his rights to the Spanish crown to his son, the Count of Barcelona. On 12 February, Alfonso suffered a first heart attack. Alfonso died on 28 February 1941. In 1942 Queen Victoria Eugenie was obliged to leave Italy having become persona non grata to the Italian government, according to Harold Tittmann, a U.S. representative at the Vatican at the time, for her "ill-disguised leanings to the Allied cause." ^[7]

Queen Victoria Eugenie returned briefly to Spain in February 1968, to stand as godmother at the baptism of her great-grandson, Infante Felipe, the son of Infante Juan Carlos and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark. Felipe became King of Spain after his father's abdication in June 2014.

Later life

Victoria Eugenie died in Lausanne on 15 April 1969, aged 81, exactly 38 years after she had left Spain for exile. She was interred in the church of Sacré Coeur in Lausanne. On 25 April 1985, her remains were returned to Spain and re-interred in the Royal Vault in the Escorial, outside Madrid, next to the remains of her husband, Alfonso XIII, and not far from her sons, Infante Alfonso, Infante Jaime, and Infante Gonzalo.

Legacy

Victoria Eugenie's great-grandson Felipe VI is the present King of Spain. Her godchildren include the Prince of Monaco, the late Queen Fabiola of the Belgians, and the late Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba.

Victoria Eugenie's Cartier tiara of diamonds set with pearls (or alternatively with emeralds) was left to her daughter, Infanta Maria Cristina, Countess of Marone. It is now worn by the Queen of Spain.^[8] In addition, her Ansorena Fleur de Lis tiara given to her by Alfonso XIII at her wedding has become the most important tiara in the Spanish Royal collection and is worn by the Queen of Spain for important state occasions.

Royal Monogram as Queen of Spain

A sapphire ring owned by Victoria Eugenie was sold at Sotheby's in May 2012 for $50,000.^[9] That same year, Sotheby's also sold at auction Victoria Eugenie's diamond and pink conch shell bracelet by Cartier for the extraordinary price of $3.4 million. ^[10]

Titles and styles

24 October 1887 – 3 April 1906: Her Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
3 April 1906^[5] – 31 May 1906: Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
31 May 1906 – 14 April 1931: Her Majesty The Queen
14 April 1931 – 15 April 1969: Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain

Arms

Heraldry of Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

Victoria Eugenie's coat of arms as Queen of Spain (1906-1931/1941, titular) were the former Lesser Royal Coat of Arms of Spain used by the House of Bourbon, impaled with the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (in the English version), overall an inescutcheon with the arms of her father Prince Henry of Battenberg; quarterly 1st and 4th, Hesse (modified), 2nd and 3rd, Battenberg. The Prince Henry's arms modified by a bordure charged with the lions of England (eight).

Blazon:

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Quarterly, first and fourth Gules, a three towered castle Or, masoned Sable and ajouré Azure (for Castile), second and third Argent, a lion rampant Purpure (blazoned Gules) crowned Or (for León), enté en point; Argent, a pomegranate proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert (for Granada), overall an inescutcheon Azure, three fleurs-de-lys Or (for Bourbon); impaled with quarterly, first and fourth Gules three lions passant gardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England), second quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland), third quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland), overall an inescutcheon quarterly, first and fourth Azure a lion rampant barry of ten argent and gules, armed or a bordure compony Argent and Gules (for Hesse, modified), second and third Argent, two pallets Sable (for Battenberg), a bordure Gules charged with eight lions passant gardant Or armed and langued Azure (for England).^[11]^[12]

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*Left: Coat of arms used as Highness (Before 1906) *Centre: Coat of arms as UK Royal Highness (1906) *Right: Coat of arms as widow (1941-1969)

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias	10 May 1907	6 September 1938(1938-09-06) (aged 31)	renounced rights to the Spanish throne for himself and his descendants (because of his intended unequal marriage), 11 June 1933; m. 1st 1933 (div. 1937) Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato (5 March 1906 – 23 May 1994); m. 2nd 1937 (div. 1938) Marta Esther Rocafort-Altuzarra (18 September 1913 – 4 February 1993). He died in a car crash in 1938
Jaime, Duque de Segovia	23 June 1908	20 March 1975(1975-03-20) (aged 66)	renounced rights to the Spanish throne (because of his physical infirmities), 21 June 1933. He married, Donna Emmanuela de Dampierre on 4 March 1935 and they were divorced on 6 May 1947. They have two sons, three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He remarried Charlotte Tiedermann on 3 August 1949.
Infanta Beatriz of Spain	22 June 1909	22 November 2002(2002-11-22) (aged 93)	she married Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi on 14 January 1935. They have four children, eleven grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren.
Infante Fernando	21 May 1910	21 May 1910(1910-05-21) (aged 0)	stillborn
Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain	12 December 1911	23 December 1996(1996-12-23) (aged 85)	she married Enrico Eugenio Marone-Cinzano, 1st Count Marone on 10 June 1940. They have four daughters, ten grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona	20 June 1913	1 April 1993(1993-04-01) (aged 79)	recognised as heir apparent to the Spanish throne and held the title Prince of Asturias. He married Princess María Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies on 12 October 1935. They have four children, ten grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren
Infante Gonzalo	24 October 1914	13 August 1934(1934-08-13) (aged 19)	also a haemophiliac. He died in a car accident in Austria

Ancestry

Ancestors of Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

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 Karl Emmanuel Hauke

10. Count John Maurice Hauke

21. Maria Salome Schweppenhäuser

5. Countess Julia Hauke

22. Franz Leopold Lafontaine

11. Sophie Lafontaine

23. Maria Theresia von Kornély

1. Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

24. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

12. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

25. Countess Augusta 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)

Notes

↑ The London Gazette: no. 25655. p. 6305. 14 December 1886.
↑ "'The Duke and Duchess of York and Bridesmaids'". National Portrait Gallery.
↑ "Hoelseth's Royal Corner". Spanish royal family links. Dag Trygsland Hoelseth. Archived from the original on 2007-11-20. Retrieved 11 November 2006.
↑ François Velde. "Royal Styles and Titles of Great Britain: Documents". Heraldica.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
1 2 "Supplement to The London Gazette". The London Gazette (27901). 3 April 1906. p. 2421. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
↑ Cunliffe, Frederick (1923-05-13). "Pope's Gold Rose for Queens - Victoria of Spain Gets One - King Henry VIII. Got Three - Article - NYTimes.com". Select.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
↑ Inside the Vatican of Pius XI, Harold Tittmann, p.32 , Image book, Doubleday,2004
↑ "Tiara Thursday: The Cartier Diamond and Pearl Tiara". Blogspot: The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor. 16 February 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
↑ "Magnificent jewels and noble jewels". Sotheby's.
↑ "Royal conch pearl and diamond Cartier bracelet fetches $3.4 million at Geneva auction; Trinket once belonged to Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain". Daily News. AFP-Relaxnews. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
↑ Bouza, Antonio L. (1990), El Ex-Libris Tratado general. Su historia en la corona española, Madrid: Patrimonio Nacional, ISBN 978-84-7120-142-3
↑ Queen Victoria Eugenie's Arms, Ex libris Bookplates, bookplate-jvarnoso.blogspot.com

References

Eilers, Marlene A. (1987). Queen Victoria's Descendants. New York: Atlantic International. ISBN 0-938311-04-2.
"Franco at Bourbon Prince's Baptism", The Times, 9 February 1968, p. 4, column 4.
"Queen Victoria Eugénie, Granddaughter of Queen Victoria (Obituary)", The Times, 16 April 1969, p. 12, column E.

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Spanish royalty
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg House of Battenberg Cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt Born: 24 October 1887 Died: 15 April 1969
Vacant Title last held by Maria Christina of Austria	Queen consort of Spain 1906–1931	Vacant Title next held by Sophia of Greece and Denmark

Spanish royal consorts

Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (2014–present)

Sophía of Greece and Denmark (1975–2014)
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1906–1931)
Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1885)
Mercedes of Orléans (1878)
Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo (1870–1873)
Francis of Spain (1846–1868)
Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1829–1833)
Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1819–1829)
Maria Isabel of Portugal (1816–1818)
Julie Clary (1808–1813)
Maria Luisa of Parma (1788–1808)
Maria Amalia of Saxony (1759–1760)
Barbara of Portugal (1746–1758)
Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1724)
Elisabeth Farnese (1714–1724, 1724–1746)
Maria Luisa of Savoy (1701–1714)
Maria Anna of Neuburg (1690–1700)
Marie Louise of Orléans (1679–1689)
Mariana of Austria (1649–1665)
Élisabeth of France (1621–1644)
Margaret of Austria (1598–1611)
Anna of Austria (1570–1580)
Élisabeth of France (1559–1568)
Mary I of England (1556–1558)
Isabella of Portugal (1526–1539)

Battenberg / Mountbatten family

Generations are numbered by their descent from Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg

1st generation	Princess Marie Prince Louis Prince Alexander Prince Henry Prince Francis Joseph

2nd generation	Princess Alice Princess Louise Prince George Prince Louis Prince Alexander Princess Victoria Eugenie Prince Leopold Prince Maurice

3rd generation	Prince Philip* Tatiana David Patricia Pamela Iris

4th generation	George Ivar

5th generation	Tatiana Henry Ella Alexandra Louise

* son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. Although, patrilineally a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, he renounced his Greek and Danish princely titles and took the surname Mountbatten before marrying the future Queen Elizabeth II.

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