Viktoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie von Hessen und bei Rhein, Herzogin, Marchioness of Milford Haven

mtDNA haplogroup H (16111T, 16357C, 263G, 315.1C)

• Princess Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie of Hesse and by Rhine,
• By marriage Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven

Links:

• The Peerage
• Geneall
• Johann the Younger #1950
• Wikipedia

Her mother died while her brother and sisters were still young, which placed her in an early position of responsibility over her siblings. She married her father's first cousin, Prince Louis of Battenberg, an officer in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, in a love match and lived most of her married life in various parts of Europe at her husband's naval posts and visiting her many royal relations. She was perceived by her family as liberal in outlook, straightforward, practical and bright.

During World War I, two of her sisters who had married into the Russian royal family were murdered by communist revolutionaries, and she and her husband abandoned their German titles and adopted the British-sounding surname of Mountbatten, which was simply a translation into English of the German "Battenberg".

She was the maternal grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who is the consort of Queen Elizabeth II.