#george of battenberg

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Newspaper article announcing engagement of Nada de Torby and Prince George of Battenberg.

Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby was the daughter of exiled Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and his morganactic wife, Sophie, Countess de Torby. Nada was a first cousin of Irina Alexandrovna and her brothers, as well as Nina and Xenia Georgievna. Prince George of Battenberg (later 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven) was the elder son of Louis of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse. He was a first cousin of OTMAA and elder brother of Maria's admirer, Dickie Mountbatten. They married on 15 November, 1916 and had two children, Tatiana (1917) and David (1919).

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Princess Victoria of Battenberg and her husband Prince Ludwig of Battenberg and their children Louise and George with Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna.

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Prince George of Battenberg joking around with his older sisters, 1901

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On 15 December 1948, Prince Charles was christened in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace.

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Emperor Nicholas II of Russia with his daughters, Prince George of Battenberg, and Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (nephew and niece of the Empress), and several ladies-in-waiting. Photographed by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna at Münzenberg Castle, Hesse, Germany in 1910.

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Second cousins King George VI and Alice of Battenberg, taken from "Elizabeth II: The Unseen Queen".

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Nadejda Mikhailovna of Toby, Marchioness of Milford Haven and her husband Prince George of Battenberg, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

Russian vintage postcard

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Olga, Tatiana and Maria with Louise of Battenberg, Prince George of Battenberg, and Alice of Battenberg. Peterhof 1901.

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This is random as fuck but I'm thinking about Henry's royal surname

So I happen to be a bit of nerd when it comes to British royalty, I literally don't have a reason for that except it's interesting to me

I actually really appreciated changing movie Henry's surname, until I found out they're real royal houses and started wondering about RWRB's history

In the book it was Mountchristen-Windsor, obviously modelled after irl royal family Mountbatten-Windsor, although Mountbatten was derived from the German Battenberg family from the Queen's husband, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, which is also an actual place in Germany. As far as I can tell Mountchristen is entirely fictional?

Book Henry mentioned having a Great Uncle who abdicated because he was a Nazi, which is irl Duke of Winsdor, Queen Elizabeth's uncle (although the reason he stated was for love), so I think? That the lineage was the same until at least that generation. But Queen Mary, Henry's grandmother said she's been serving the country for 47 years, and Princess Catherine, Henry's mother is 60 years old in 2020, born in 1960, approximately the same age as Prince Andrew, Queen E's third child. Henry was born in 1997, and Prince William was born in 1982. So the generational year gap changes there: for RWRB there's four generations, while irl there are five generations in 2020.

So a bit of math here, assuming that the Duke of Windsor's abdication is the same as the real world, which is 1936, so the lineage is the same up to 1936. The book takes place in 2020, so Queen Mary ascended to the throne in 1973, 37 years after the Duke of Windsor's abdication, a reasonable amount of years for one monarch's reign. So that monarch is where things went differently. As for how it went differently...yeah I don't fucking know my brain cells ran out.

But Movie Henry's royal family name is Hanover-Stuart, two actual houses of royalty: King James IV&I of M&G belongs to the House of Stuart (so what the fuck Nick another coincidental connection between your characters) with Anne, Queen of Britain being the last reigning monarch of the House of Stuart (after her death her cousin George of Hanover inherited the British Throne); Queen Victoria was the last reigning monarch of the House of Hanover (her children belonged to the house of her husband: the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which was later renamed Windsor during WWI). In our world, the House of Stuart went extinct in 1807, while the House of Hanover still has living members in Europe, granted no longer in direct relations to the British monarchy

So what I'm wondering if for movie verse, where the history of the British royal family changes for Henry to have this different surname:

For Hanover, it's possible that for the universe, Queen Victoria's children still bore her name of Hanover and didn't change it during the war, so the rest of the lineup to Henry kept Hanover. But I cannot for the life of me imagine where would Stuart come from given that the line broke off there

... yeah I don't know what point I'm trying to make or what conclusion I drew, but I used up an hour going down this rabbit hole. If my dad knew I was doing math for this instead of doing my calculus homework he'd kill me but whatever

Also I bet neither Casey nor Matthew actually thought this deep about such a minor thing this is how bad my rwrb brainrot is if we don't get something soon I'm gonna go stir crazy

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Romanov relatives: The family of Prince Andrew of Greece

Prince Andrew, fourth son of Olga Konstantinovna, is seated in front with his nephew, the future King George II of the Hellenes. Behind them are Andrew's younger brother Christopher with Theodora, Andrew's wife Alice, and their daughter Margarita. Andrew and Christopher were also first cousins of Nicholas II through the Danish line.

Alice too had strong connections to the Romanov family; her mother Victoria was the elder sister of Alexandra Feodorovna and Elizaveta Feodorovna, making Alix and Ella here aunts, and OTMAA her first cousins.

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Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Prince George of Battenberg, Ernest Louis Duke of Hesse, Nikolai Kulikovsky.

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British Royal Portraits by Hungarian artist, Philip De László. 1907 Princess Alice of Battenberg 1907 Princess Victoria of Wales 1907 TM King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra 1915 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll 1924 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1925 Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 1926 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom 1931 King George VI 1932 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone 1933 Queen Elizabeth II 1934 Prince George and Princess Marina, The Duke and Duchess of Kent 1936 Queen Marie of Romania, nee Princess Marie of Edinburgh 1937 Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven 1937 Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

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If I'm not mistaken, empress Maria Alexandrovna's brother was infatuated with Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, but emperor Nicholas I did not want such a marriage to happen. Instead, he proposed a marriage with Grand Duchess Ekaterina Mikhailovna, but he demurred. What did Ekaterina think about this? Thx u!

Hi! Nope, you are not mistaken—Prince Alexander of Hesse fancied himself in love with Grand Duchess Olga. She did flirt with him quite a bit, but she knew her father did not approve, and she sort of led Alexander on a little. Because her two sisters had married relatively insignificant royal partners, Nicholas was eager to see Olga make a dynastic marriage, and Alexander of Hesse was not what he had in mind. He did suggest his niece, Grand Duchess Ekaterina Mikhailovna, as an alternative, but Alexander had no interest in marrying a woman he didn’t love; what’s more, Ekaterina’s father, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, disliked the future Empress Maria Alexandrovna, and his dislike extended to her younger brother as well, so even if the young prince hadn’t demurred, it’s unlikely that the marriage would have happened. We don’t know much about what Ekaterina herself thought of the situation, but from what I understand, she was in no hurry to marry, and she had already refused the hand of another German prince. Ultimately, she married Duke Georg of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and interestingly, the couple made their home in St. Petersburg. Prince Alexander later fell in love with Countess Julia von Hauke, maid of honor to his sister, much to the displeasure of Nicholas I; he and Julia left Russia, and by the time they were able to wed, she was already six months pregnant. Her husband’s brother, the Grand Duke of Hesse, gave her the title of Princess of Battenberg, and as such, the current Mountbattens are her descendants.

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⋆ William, The Conqueror to Prince Louis of Wales ⋆

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