Louis Mountbatten

1900 – 1979 · Generation XXXVI · Last Viceroy of India

Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979). Last Viceroy of India. Born at Frogmore House, the younger son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Victoria of Hesse, “Dickie” was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria and a maternal uncle of Prince Philip. In 1922 he married the heiress Edwina Ashley. In the Second World War he led a destroyer flotilla from HMS Kelly until she was sunk off Crete in 1941 — the basis for Noël Coward’s In Which We Serve — then, as Churchill’s chief of Combined Operations, oversaw the successful Bruneval raid and the disastrous one at Dieppe, before becoming Supreme Allied Commander in South East Asia. After guiding India through independence and partition, and serving as its first governor-general, he became First Sea Lord in 1955 and later Chief of the Defence Staff. A mentor to the future Charles III, he was killed in 1979 when the IRA bombed his fishing boat at Mullaghmore, County Sligo.

Place in the family

• Louis Mountbatten was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria.
• Louis Mountbatten was the younger of 2 children of Louis Mountbatten and Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine recorded in this archive.

Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Edward Duke of Kent → Queen Victoria → Alice of the United Kingdom → Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine → Louis Mountbatten.

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Parents

• Louis Mountbatten (1854 – 1921)
• Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863 – 1950)

Siblings

• Alice of Battenberg (1885 – 1969)