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...sailing vessels last week nosed into U.S. harbors, each bearing a cargo of throneless royalty from the same country. In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall...
...Queen was "a doll, a living" doll." The Post also, thought she was "a honey." Manhattan tabloid headlines called her Liz, and the Chicago Daily News's Robert E. Hoyt paid the ultimate democratic compliment: "But for the grace of God, she'd be plain Lizzie Battenberg...
...King Constantine of Greece. By descent the family was not Greek, but belonged to the royal Danish House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which the British, French and Russians had put on the throne at the end of the 19th century. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Young Philip never learned Greek. His father, a lieutenant general, was blamed by clamoring republicans for a disaster in the short (1921-22) war with Turkey, was condemned to permanent exile, and left Greece for Paris, taking 18-month-old Philip with...
...Anglophile father insisted his son should be brought up as a proper Englishman, young Philip was shipped off to England to be reared by his mother's mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the widow of Prince Louis of Battenberg, one of England's greatest naval commanders, who had Anglicized his name to Mountbatten during World...
...Burma ("Dickie" to his friends) appeared at the Admiralty in London and took office as Britain's First Sea Lord. The last First Sea Lord to steer H.M.'s Navy from the green-walled room Mountbatten chose as his office was his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was forced to" resign at the outbreak of World War I, after 45 years of devoted naval service, because of public outcry over his German birth. Though he had openly aspired to the post for a good part of his dashing life as a seagoing navyman, handsome Dickie seemed...