The Marquess of Milford Haven | |
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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 |
Spouse(s) | |
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 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.
Born on 6 June 1961, 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 the second cousin of 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]
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]
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