Death : 11th September 1921 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven. After a funeral service at Westminster Abbey, his remains were buried at St. Mildreds Church, Whippingham, on the Isle of Wight. Born as Count Louis of Battenberg (later Prince of Battenberg), on 24th May 1854, he was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia von Hauke. Because of his morganatic parentage, Louis was denied his fathers rank in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and from birth his style of Illustrious Highness and title of Count of Battenberg instead derived from the rank given to his mother at the time of her marriage. On 26 December 1858, he automatically became His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg when his mother was elevated to Princess of Battenberg with the style of Serene Highness by decree of her husbands brother, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse. After a career in the United Kingdoms Royal Navy lasting more than forty years, in 1912 he was appointed First Sea Lord, the professional head of the British naval service. With World War I looming, he took steps to ready the British fleet for combat, but his background as a German prince forced his retirement once the war began, when anti-German feeling was running high. On 14 July 1917 At the behest of King George V, Louis relinquished the title Prince of Battenberg in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and also the style of Serene Highness, . At the same time, Louis anglicised his family name, changing it from Battenberg to Mountbatten. On 7 November, the King created him Marquess of Milford Haven, Earl of Medina, and Viscount Alderney in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The Kings British relatives in the Teck, Schleswig-Holstein and Gleichen families underwent similar changes. Louiss wife ceased to use her own title of Princess of Hesse and became known as the Marchioness of Milford Haven. He had married in 1884, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV and his first wife Princess Alice a daughter of Queen Victoria and had the following issue Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark Queen Louise of Sweden George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
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