page_title: Mountbatten family
section_title: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
hierarchical_section_title: Mountbatten family / Members / Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
caption_attribution_description: English: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh taken in the Chinese room Buckingham Palace
context_page_description: The Mountbatten family is a British dynasty originating as a cadet branch of the German princely Battenberg family. The name was adopted during World War I by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom due to rising anti-German sentiment amongst the British public. The name is a direct Anglicisation of the German Battenberg, a small town in Hesse. The title of count of Battenberg, later prince of Battenberg, was granted to a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, itself a cadet branch of the House of Hesse, in the mid 19th century.
  The family now includes the Marquesses of Milford Haven, as well as the Earls Mountbatten of Burma. Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II, adopted the surname of Mountbatten from his mother's family in 1947, although he is a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg by patrilineal descent. Lady Louise Mountbatten became Queen Consort of Sweden, after having married Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.
context_section_description: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and grandson of the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, took the name Mountbatten when he became a naturalised British subject. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten married Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI of the United Kingdom, on 20 November 1947. In 1952, on the accession of his wife as Queen Elizabeth II, there was some dispute regarding the dynasty to which descendants of Elizabeth and Phillip would belong. Queen Mary (the new Queen's grandmother) expressed to Prime Minister Winston Churchill her aversion to the idea of the House of Mountbatten succeeding the House of Windsor as the royal dynasty. Winston Churchill raised the matter in Parliament where it was decided that the name of the Royal House would remain Windsor, as decreed in perpetuity by Queen Mary's husband, King George V.
  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921) m. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  Charles, Prince of Wales (b. 1948) m. Lady Diana Spencer, div. 1996, m. Camilla Parker Bowles
  Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1982) m. Catherine Middleton
  Prince George of Cambridge (b. 2013)
  Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (b. 2015)
  Prince Louis of Cambridge (b. 2018)
  Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (b. 1984) m. Meghan Markle
  Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (b. 2019)
  Anne, Princess Royal (b. 1950) m. Captain Mark Phillips, div. 1992, m. Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence
  Prince Andrew, Duke of York (b. 1960) m. Sarah Ferguson, div. 1996
  Princess Beatrice of York (b. 1988) m. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
  Princess Eugenie of York (b. 1990) m. Jack Brooksbank
  Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (b. 1964) m. Sophie Rhys-Jones
  Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor (b. 2003)
  James Mountbatten-Windsor, Viscount Severn (b. 2007)
caption: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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