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From: (Gary Holtzman)
Subject: Re: Royal Family of Europe
Date: 01 Oct 2001 23:20:00 GMT
References: <3bb83ec6.977002@ca.news.verio.net>, <9par6d$i7$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>


"Allan Thomas Raymond" <> wrote:
>
> One entry for amendment "Andrew of Greece and Denmark MOUNTBATTEN was
> born on 1 Feb 1882. He died on 3 Dec 1944. Andrew married Princess Alice
> of Battenburg in 1903"
>
> Wasn't aware that Andrew was a Mountbatten, Mountbatten was an anglicised
> version of Battenberg which applied from 1917 onwards.

Andrew was neither a Battenburg, nor a Battenberg, nor a Mountbatten. Philip
adopted the name Mountbatten when he became a British citizen (although others
have pointed out here that the naturalisation process wasn't strictly necessary)
in reference to his mother's family, the Mountbattens. Ironically, Princess
Andrew never used the name herself; she was a princess of Battenberg by birth but
a member of the Greek royal house at the time of the name change.

--
Gary Holtzman

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