George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven

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The Marquess of Milford Haven
Marquess of Milford Haven
Tenure14 April 1970 – present
Predecessor David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
Other titlesEarl of Medina (1961–1970)
BornGeorge Ivar Louis Mountbatten
(1961-06-06) 6 June 1961 (age 63)
Spouse(s)
Sarah Georgina Walker
(m. 1989;div. 1996)
(m. 1997)
Issue Lady Tatiana Mountbatten
Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
HeirHenry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
Parents David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
Janet Mercedes Bryce

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

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Biography

Family

Lord Milford Haven is the elder son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and Janet Mercedes Bryce, the older brother of Lord Ivar Mountbatten, and a descendant of Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great, Alexander Pushkin, and Abram Gannibal. Upon the death of his father on 14 April 1970, he became the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and head of the Mountbatten family. He is second cousin to Charles III through both of their fathers.

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

The couple divorced on 27 February 1996. In June 2016, Walker married Michael Spencer, Lord Spencer of Alresford.

Lord Milford Haven subsequently married Clare Husted Steel at Coatue Point in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on 20 August 1997. [2]

Career

In 2000, Lord Milford Haven founded uSwitch, a website to help consumers compare and change suppliers of various services. The company was sold in March 2006 to the American media firm E. W. Scripps for around £210 million ($400 million). [3]

He plays polo, and Julian Hipwood has coached his teams. [4] Lord Milford Haven won the Queen's Cup with the Broncos team in 1988, and he reached the final in 2006. [5]

Arms

Coat of arms of George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
Coronet of a British Marquess.svg
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven-CoA-Shield.svg
Coronet
A Coronet of a 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 compony 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 Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, 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

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References

  1. Cope, Rebecca (18 October 2018). "Lady Tatiana Mountbatten is announced as Crofton & Hall's new ambassador". Tatler.
  2. Clare Milford Haven (3 September 2024). "Forget the Hamptons". tatler.com.
  3. "Queen's cousin makes £100m in uSwitch sale". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 17 March 2006.
  4. Yolanda Carslaw, 'Who’s who among polo’s star attractions', in The Financial Times , 23 July 2010
  5. Laffaye, Horace A. (28 August 2015). Profiles in Polo: The Players Who Changed the Game. McFarland. p. 94. ISBN   978-1476662732.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Marquess of Milford Haven
1970–present
Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gentlemen
The Marquess of Milford Haven
Succeeded by
Lines of succession
Preceded by
Princess Clarissa of Hesse
Line of succession to the British throne
descendant of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria
Succeeded by
Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina