George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven

The Most Honourable

The Marquess of Milford Haven
The Most Honourable; The Marquess of Milford Haven
Marquess of Milford Haven
Tenure	14 April 1970 – present
Predecessor	David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
Other titles	Earl of Medina (1961–1970)
Born	George Ivar Louis Mountbatten; 6 June 1961 (age 60)
Spouse(s)	Sarah Georgina Walker (m. 1989; div. 1996); Clare Husted Steel; (m. 1997)
	Issue Lady Tatiana Mountbatten ; Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
Heir	Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
Parents	David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven; Janet Mercedes née Bryce

George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (born 6 June 1961), styled Earl of Medina before 1970, is a British peer and businessman.

Biography[]

Family[]

Lord Milford Haven is the oldest son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and Janet Mercedes Bryce, the older brother of Lord Ivar Mountbatten and a descendant of Catherine the Great and Alexander Pushkin. At the death of his father on 14 April 1970, he became the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and head of the House of Mountbatten. He is in the line of succession to the British throne through his descent from Queen Victoria's second daughter, Princess Alice. He is also a second cousin to Charles, Prince of Wales through both of their fathers.

Lord Milford Haven married firstly Sarah Georgina Walker (born London, Middlesex, 17 November 1961/2), former wife of Andreas Antoniou (married 1985; divorced 1987), daughter of George Alfred Walker and Jean Maureen (née Hatton), in London on 8 March 1989. The couple were divorced on 27 February 1996. They had two children:

Lady Tatiana Helen Georgia Mountbatten (born London, 16 April 1990) who works in public relations^[1]
Henry (Harry) David Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Medina (born 19 October 1991)^{[citation needed]}

Lord Milford Haven subsequently married Clare Husted Steel (born Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, 2 September 1960) at , Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, on 20 August 1997, without issue.

Career[]

In 2000, he founded uSwitch, a website which helps consumers compare and change suppliers of various services. The company was sold to the American media firm E. W. Scripps in March 2006 for around £210 million ($400 million).^[2]

He plays polo, and Julian Hipwood has coached his teams.^[3] He won the Queen's Cup with the Broncos team in 1988 and reached the 2006 final.^[4]

Arms[]

Coat of arms of George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven hide
Coronet A Coronet of an Marquess Crest 1st: Out of a Coronet Or two Horns barry of ten Argent and Gules issuing from each three Linden Leaves Vert and from the outer side of each horn four Branches barwise having three like Leaves pendent therefrom of the last (Hesse); 2nd: Out of a Coronet Or a Plume of four Ostrich Feathers alternately Argent and Sable (Battenberg) Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure a Lion rampant double-queued barry of ten Argent and Gules armed and langued of the last crowned Or within a Bordure company of the second and third (Hesse); 2nd and 3rd, Argent two Pallets Sable (Battenberg); charged on the honour point with an Escutcheon of the arms of the late Princess Alice, namely: the Royal Arms differenced by a Label of three points Argent the centre point charged with a Rose Gules barbed Vert and each of the other points with an Ermine Spot Sable Supporters On either side a Lion double-queued and crowned all Or Motto In Honour Bound

References[]

^ Cope, Rebecca. "Lady Tatiana Mountbatten is announced as Crofton & Hall's new ambassador". Tatler.
^ "Queen's cousin makes £100m in uSwitch sale". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 17 March 2006.
^ Yolanda Carslaw, 'Who’s who among polo’s star attractions', in The Financial Times, 23 July 2010 [1]
^ Laffaye, Horace A. (28 August 2015). Profiles in Polo: The Players Who Changed the Game. McFarland. p. 94. ISBN 978-1476662732.

External links[]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Marquess of Milford Haven

Lines of succession
Preceded by Pascale Harman	Line of succession to the British throne descended from Alice, daughter of Victoria	Succeeded by Earl of Medina
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by David Mountbatten	Marquess of Milford Haven 1970–present	Incumbent Heir apparent: Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Marquess of Linlithgow	Gentlemen The Marquess of Milford Haven	Succeeded by The Marquess of Reading

[1] Cope, Rebecca. "Lady Tatiana Mountbatten is announced as Crofton & Hall's new ambassador". Tatler.

[2] "Queen's cousin makes £100m in uSwitch sale". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 17 March 2006.

[3] Yolanda Carslaw, 'Who’s who among polo’s star attractions', in The Financial Times, 23 July 2010 [1]

[4] Laffaye, Horace A. (28 August 2015). Profiles in Polo: The Players Who Changed the Game. McFarland. p. 94. ISBN 978-1476662732.

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show v t Battenberg/Mountbatten family
Generations are numbered by their descent from Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg
1st generation	Princess Marie Prince Louis Prince Alexander Prince Henry Prince Francis Joseph
2nd generation	Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark Louise, Queen of Sweden Prince George Prince Louis Prince Alexander Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain Prince Leopold Prince Maurice
3rd generation	Prince Philip* David Patricia Pamela Iris
4th generation	George Ivar
5th generation	Lady Tatiana Henry Ella Alexandra Louise
*Not Mountbatten or Battenberg by birth. Adopted the surname Mountbatten from his maternal line on abandoning his patrilineal Greek and Danish princely titles.