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Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (24 May 1854 – 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British royal family.

Although born in Austria, and brought up in Italy and Germany, Louis enrolled in the British Royal Navy at the age of fourteen. Queen Victoria and her son the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) occasionally intervened in his career: the Queen thought that there was "a belief that the Admiralty are afraid of promoting Officers who are Princes on account of the radical attacks of low papers and scurrilous ones". However, Louis welcomed assignments that provided opportunities for him to acquire skills and to demonstrate to his superiors that he was serious about his naval career. Posts on royal yachts and tours arranged by Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales impeded his progress, as his promotions were perceived as undeserved royal favours.

After a naval career lasting more than forty years, in 1912 Louis was appointed First Sea Lord, the professional head of the British naval service. With the First World War looming, he took steps to ready the British fleet for combat, but his background as a German prince forced his retirement once the war began, when anti-German sentiment was running high. He changed his name and relinquished his German titles, at the behest of King George V, in 1917. The King made Louis Marquess of Milford Haven.

Louis married Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. They had four children: Alice, Louise, George, and Louis. Louise later became Queen of Sweden, while the younger Louis served as First Sea Lord, like his father, from 1954 to 1959. The Marquess and Marchioness of Milford Haven were the maternal grandparents of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Victoria de Hesse-Darmstadt, née à Windsor le 5 avril 1863 et morte le 24 septembre 1950, est la fille aînée du grand-duc Louis IV de Hesse et de sa première épouse Alice du Royaume-Uni. Par sa mère, elle est la petite-fille de la reine Victoria, d'après laquelle elle est nommée.

Sa mère meurt alors que son frère et ses sœurs sont encore jeunes, ce qui la place dans une position de responsabilité dès l'âge de quinze ans. Grâce au soutien de sa grand-mère, elle épouse en 1884 son cousin, l'officier de la Royal Navy Louis de Battenberg, issu d'une branche morganatique de la Maison de Hesse, à laquelle elle appartient aussi.

Ce mariage d'amour donne naissance à quatre enfants. Victoria suit son mari au gré de ses affectations en Europe, ce qui lui permet de laisser libre cours à sa curiosité intellectuelle.

La Première Guerre mondiale est un moment de déchirement. Ses deux sœurs, la tsarine Alexandra et la grande-duchesse Élisabeth sont exécutées sommairement avec leurs familles par les bolcheviks. Les autres membres de la famille sont allemands et son autre sœur, Irène, a épousé le frère du Kaiser. Dans un contexte de forte germanophobie en Grande-Bretagne, le couple abandonne ses titres allemands et la princesse devient Victoria Mountbatten, marquise de Milford Haven.

Après la mort de son mari en 1921, elle se retire au palais de Kensington, où elle meurt en 1950.

Victoria est considérée par ses proches comme une personne franche, pragmatique et intelligente, aux opinions libérales. Elle est la grand-mère maternelle du prince Philip, prince consort de la reine Élisabeth II.