#louise Mountbatten

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Blood is thicker than water

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King Charles III, Anne, Princess Royal, Zara Tindall and Prince Philip's (Cha and Anne's papa, Zara's grandpa) maternal aunt, Louise Mountbatten, later known as Queen Louise of Sweden. -@chrissybrown1127 ☁️💙

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Series: The Wedding of OTMAA's cousin Louise Mountbatten.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt Princess Ingrid of Sweden & Queen Louise & Kemal Ataturk 1934 Kemal Pasch (Ataturk) in discussion with Swedish diplomat, Ankara 1934

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Princess Louise of Battenberg and her uncle Grand Duke Ernst Louis of Hesse and by Rhine in Dramstadt 1910.

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 29th June 1923

— Friday 29th June Lunched at Lady Cunard’s. The usual potpourri and brilliant chat. She told Lord Balfour he was like God and ‘yet so Christ-like’! Dined with Michael Horby¹ at Shelley House² and we went to Stop Flirting, the popular revue in which two charming little people, Americans, called Fred and Adele Astaire, are the stars.³ Later a most lovely ball at Someries House⁴ ... Lady Zia Wernher’s.⁵ It was successful indeed and starts a new era in entertaining .... I was presented to a tallish gentleman, the Crown Prince of Sweden⁶ ... he is to marry the Lady Louise Mountbatten.⁷ It will be announced next week. What luck for her as she has only about £300 a year and is living in obscurity at Kensington Palace. The Mountbattens after being degraded during the war⁸ to the rank of mere marquises and earls are now much on the ascendant ... they are ever a lucky family, poverty-stricken, they specialise in brilliant marriages. I sat in the garden with Lady Desborough⁹ and found her witty and wily as ever ... does everyone realise, as I do, that she is the character of the age?

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1. Michael Charles St John Hornby (1899-1987), son of St John Hornby, was the founding partner of WH Smith.

2. The Hornby family’s house in Chelsea.

3. Frederick Austerlitz (1899-1987), who took the name Fred Astaire, was an American actor, dancer and singer who achieved worldwide fame in the 1930s in a series of Hollywood musicals renowned for their dance routines; and his sister Adele Marie (1896-1981), with whom he began a vaudeville act as children as 1905, when they changed their name to Astaire. By 1923 they had a Broadway act, which they were touring in London.

4. A Crown State property rented by the Wernhers in Regent’s Park, designed by John Nash and damaged by bombing during the Second World War. It was demolished in 1958.

5. Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Torby (1892-1977), elder daughter of the Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, and therefore a great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I. She married, in 1917, Harold Wernher (1893-1973), later 3rd Bt. She was granted the rank and precedence of an earl’s daughter after her marriage and stopped using her Russian title, being known as Lady Zia Wernher thereafter.

6. Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf (1882-1973), from 1950 King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. He was the widower of Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920), whom he had married in 1905; she was the cousin of King George V, and had died suddenly while eight months pregnant with her sixth child. 7. Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten (1889-1965), previously Princess Louise of Battenberg, married the Crown Prince of Sweden (vide supra) in 1923, and was Queen Consort of Sweden from 1950. She was daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg, who became 1st Marquess of Milford Haven when renouncing the German titles in 1917. She had earlier turned down proposals from King Manuel II of Portugal and had been secretly engaged to Prince Christopher of Greece, who was unable to marry her because he had no money; a second engagement was to Stuart Hill, an artist, whom she met while nursing in the Great War and who turned out to be homosexual. 8. There was a protracted debate between Lloyd George, King George V and Lord Stamfordham, the King’s private secretary, in 1917 about the titles to be bestowed on German members of the King’s family who had pledged allegiance to him and had been prepared to forfeit their German ranks. The King was cautioned against granting too many titles and to avoid bestowing any dukedoms. The Mountbatten marquessate was a compromise and their rise would indeed be unstoppable, with the surname of members of the House of Windsor becoming Mountbatten-Windsor in 1960, thirteen years after the marriage of the future Queen Elizabeth II to Philip Mountbatten. 9. Ethel ‘Ettie’ Fane (1867-1952), married in 1887 William Henry Grenfell (1855-1945), 1st Baron Desborough, a former Liberal MP who had joined the Conservatives in 1893 over his disagreement with the second Home Rule Bill for Ireland. Their three sons (qqv) predeceased them, two killed in the Great War and a third in a car crash.

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Royal Birthdays for today, July 13th:

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1608

Amalie, Princess of Baden, 1776

Caroline of Baden, Queen of Bavaria, 1776

Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress Consort of all the Russias, 1798

Marie Anne of Portugal, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 1861

Caroline Reuss of Greiz, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1884

Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden, 1889

Maria del Carmen, Princess of of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, 1924

Soamsawali, Princess of Thailand, 1957

Maria, Princess of Romania, 1964

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Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and James, The Earl of Wessex attend the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in King's Lynn, England -December 25th 2023.

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Updates in The Line of Succession 🎉

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Queen Louise of Sweden as a young princess by Philipp Alexius de Laszlo (oil on canvas, 1907)

Queen Louise, formerly Lady Louise Mountbatten, was born as Princess Louise Alexandra Marie Irene of Battenberg in Germany in 1889, but grew up in England.

During the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross and served as a nurse from March 1915 to July 1917. Queen Louise took an active interest in nurses' working conditions. During the Winter War, she opened a children's home for Finnish war orphans at Ulriksdal Palace. She also participated actively at Sophiahemmet's meetings.

In 1923, she married Crown Prince Gustaf (VI) Adolf.

Louise has been described as a staunch democrat and a practical person who disliked the attention she received as queen.

Photo: royalpalaces.se

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Current British Princesses of the Royal Blood

Princesses of the Royal Blood are the legitimate daughters and the legitimate male line granddaughters of a British Sovereign

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The grandchildren of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Prince William, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, James the Viscount Severn, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, Zara Tindall, and Peter Phillips - departing Westminster Hall after standing vigil over their grandmother’s coffin || The Vigil of the Grandchildren || September 17, 2022

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H.S.H. Princess Louise of Battenberg, later Queen of Sweden (1889-1965) by Philip de László.

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Olga Nikolaevna, Irene of Prussia, Eleonore of Hesse, Louise of Battenberg, Waldemar and Louis Mountbatten onboard the Standart July-August, 1909

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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.