http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mountbatten,_2nd_Marquess_of_Milford_HavenHouse-of-Battenberg House of Battenberg] (Cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt) 1938) was born the son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine at Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. He died aged 45 of cancer of the bone marrow. siblings were Princess Alice, (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.rby (daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich Romanov and Sophie von Merenberg, Countess de Torby) on 15 November 1916 at London. They lived at Lynden Manor at Holyport in Berkshire and had two children: who "could work out complicated gunnery problems in his head" and "read books on calculus casually on trains".[1] Queen Elizabeth II said of him, "He was one of the most intelligent and brilliant of people."[2]n, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie Prinzessin von Hessen und bei Rhein.3ailovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia and Sophie Nikolaievna von Merenberg, Countess de Torbay, on 15 November 1916 at London, England.he title of HSH Prince George of Battenberg. in the service of the Royal Navy.t Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.) in 1916.* Chairman and managing director of Sperry Gyroscope Company.s of Milford Haven [U.K., 1917] on 11 September 1921.in 1927.a de Torby, Countess de Torby'''r/>