Royal lineage How the Duke’s ancestry goes back to Victoria
During the First World War, Princess Victoria and her husband, Prince Louis of Battenberg, above, dropped their German titles for the Britishsounding Mountbatten. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, like his father, served as first sea lord and was also the last viceroy of India. In 1959 he became chief of the defence staff. Killed by the IRA in 1979. Marquess of Milford Haven, occasional guardian to young Philip. Committed to an asylum when Philip was a boy. Sheltered Jewish refugees in Athens during the war, founded an order of nuns and fled military rule in Greece in 1967. Andrew, left, saw service in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), but when this went badly for Greece he was exiled and spent most of the rest of his life in France. Married Prince Cristoph of Hesse, an Oberfuhrer in the SS killed in 1943. Later stayed with the Royal family each year; last of Philip’s sisters to die, in 2001. Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse. Joined the Nazi Party in 1937 with her husband, Georg, the Grand Duke of Hesse. Died in air crash in Belgium the same year.