Notable Mountbattens
The sons of Princess Beatrice and Louis's brother, Prince Henry of Battenberg — Prince Alexander and Prince Leopold — also took the new surname, with Alexander being made Marquess of Carisbrooke.
Prince Henry of Battenberg's eldest daughter, Carisbrooke's sister, Queen Ena of Spain, never assumed the English form, however.
The best-known of Prince Louis I's descendants were his youngest son, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and the former's grandson, son of Louis's daughter Princess Alice of Battenberg: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who is now husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Another daughter to Louis I, sister to Princess Alice and to the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and aunt to the Duke of Edinburgh, was Queen Louise of Sweden.
Prior to his marriage in 1882, Prince Louis I had an affair with the actress Lillie Langtry. According to his son, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Louis was the father of Langtry's only child, Jeanne Marie Langtry, born some months later. However, other sources indicate another putative father.
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