The Marquess of Milford Haven | |
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| Marquess of Milford Haven | |
| Tenure | 14 April 1970 – present |
| Predecessor | David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven |
| Other titles | Earl of Medina (1961–1970) |
| Born | George Ivar Louis Mountbatten 6 June 1961 |
| Spouse(s) |
Sarah Georgina Walker
(
m. 1989;
div. 1996) |
| Issue |
Lady Tatiana Mountbatten Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina |
| Heir | Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina |
| Parents |
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven Janet Mercedes Bryce |
George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (born 6 June 1961), styled Earl of Medina before 1970, is a British hereditary peer and businessman.
Biography
Family
Lord Milford Haven is the elder son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and Janet Mercedes Bryce, the older brother of Lord Ivar Mountbatten and a descendant of Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great, Alexander Pushkin, and Abram Gannibal. At the death of his father on 14 April 1970, he became the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and head of the House of Mountbatten. He is second cousin to Charles III through both of their fathers.
Lord Milford Haven married first Sarah Georgina Walker (born London, Middlesex, 17 November 1961/2), former wife of Andreas Antoniou (married 1985; divorced 1987), daughter of George Alfred Walker and Jean Maureen (née Hatton), in London on 8 March 1989. The couple were divorced on 27 February 1996 and she married in June 2016 Michael Spencer, Lord Spencer of Alresford. They had two children:
- Lady Tatiana Helen Georgia Mountbatten (born London, 16 April 1990) who works in public relations. [1] She married on 23 July 2022, at Winchester Cathedral, Alexander 'Alick' Bernard Molyneux Dru (born 1991), son of Bernard Auberon Alexander Dru and Catherine Margaret Norden (and great-grandson of Colonel Aubrey Herbert, great-great-grandson of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon and of John Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci and great-nephew by marriage of Evelyn Waugh).
- Henry (Harry) David Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Medina (born 19 October 1991)[ citation needed]
Lord Milford Haven subsequently married Clare Husted Steel (born Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, 2 September 1960) at Coatue Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, on 20 August 1997, without issue.
Career
In 2000, he founded uSwitch, a website which helps consumers compare and change suppliers of various services. The company was sold to the American media firm E. W. Scripps in March 2006 for around £210 million ($400 million). [2]
He plays polo, and Julian Hipwood has coached his teams. [3] He won the Queen's Cup with the Broncos team in 1988 and reached the 2006 final. [4]
Arms
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References
- ^ Cope, Rebecca (18 October 2018). "Lady Tatiana Mountbatten is announced as Crofton & Hall's new ambassador". Tatler.
- ^ "Queen's cousin makes £100m in uSwitch sale". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 17 March 2006.
- ^ Yolanda Carslaw, 'Who’s who among polo’s star attractions', in The Financial Times, 23 July 2010 [1]
- ^ Laffaye, Horace A. (28 August 2015). Profiles in Polo: The Players Who Changed the Game. McFarland. p. 94. ISBN 978-1476662732.
External links
Battenberg/
Mountbatten family | ||
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Generations are numbered by their descent from
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and
Julia, Princess of Battenberg | ||
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*Not Mountbatten or Battenberg by birth. Adopted the surname Mountbatten from his maternal line on abandoning his patrilineal Greek and Danish princely titles. | ||
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Mountbatten family
- British people of German descent
- British people of Russian descent
- British people of Peruvian descent
- People educated at Heatherdown School
- British businesspeople
- English polo players
- English people of German descent
- English people of Russian descent
- English people of Peruvian descent
- Marquesses of Milford Haven
- Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999