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| Mountbatten | |
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| German-British noble family | |
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| Parent family | Battenberg branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt |
| Place of origin | Grand Duchy of Hesse |
| Founded | 14 July 1917 |
| Current head | George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven |
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The Mountbatten family is a British family that originated as a branch of the German princely Battenberg family. The name was adopted by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor. This was due to rising anti-German sentiment among the British public during World War I. The name is a direct Anglicisation of the German name Battenberg, which refers to a small town in Hesse. The Battenberg family was a morganatic line of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, itself a cadet branch of the House of Hesse.
The family includes the Marquesses of Milford Haven (and formerly the Marquesses of Carisbrooke), as well as the Earls Mountbatten of Burma. The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, adopted the surname of Mountbatten from his mother's family in 1947, although he was a member of the House of Glücksburg by patrilineal descent. Another prominent member of the family was Lady Louise Mountbatten, who became Queen consort of Sweden after her husband ascended the Swedish throne as King Gustaf VI Adolf in 1950.