Marquess of Milford Haven is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1917 for Prince Louis of Battenberg, the former First Sea Lord

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, and a relation to the British Royal family

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, who amidst the anti-German sentiment

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s of the First World War abandoned the use of his German surname and titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten

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, an Anglicized version of the surname Battenberg. He was at the same time made Earl of Medina and Viscount Alderney, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. the titles are held by his great-grandson, the fourth Marquess, who succeeded his father in 1970.

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

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, was the second son of the first Marquess.

The family lived at Lynden Manor at Holyport

Holyport

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, Berkshire

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, now split into four houses. A later seat was Moyns Park

Moyns Park

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 in Birdbrook

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, Essex

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. The present Lord Milford Haven owns the Great Trippetts Estate in Sussex

Sussex

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Marquesses of Milford Haven (1917)

• Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (1854–1921)
• George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
  George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
  Captain George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven , styled Earl of Medina between 1917 and 1921, was born the son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine at Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany...
  
   (1892–1938)
• David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
  David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
  David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven , styled Viscount Alderney before 1921 and Earl of Medina between 1921 and 1938, was the son of the 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven and Countess Nadejda de Torby....
  
   (1919–1970)
• George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
  George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
  George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven , styled Earl of Medina before 1970, is a British businessman, peer, and current Head of the House of Mountbatten.-Family:...
  
   (b. 1961)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina (b. 1991)