Prince Louis of Battenberg

Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, (24 May 1854 ? 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a minor German prince who married into the British Royal Family and pursued a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, eventually serving as First Sea Lord from 1912 to 1914. He was the father of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and the maternal grandfather of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Sources

• Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (New York: Atlantic International Publishing, 1987).
• Richard Alexander Hough, Louis and Victoria: The First Mountbattens (London: Hutchinson, 1974).
• Hugo Vickers, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece (New York: St. Martin's, 2000).
• Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten (New York: Knopf, 1984).