The Family and Ancestors of the Duke of Edinburgh

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The Duke of Edinburgh had some major family connections. His great-aunt was the last tsarina of Russia and hs first cousin Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia was one of the assassins of Rasputin.

[Curryong]

The Duke of Edinburgh had some major family connections. His great-aunt was the last tsarina of Russia and hs first cousin Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia was one of the assassins of Rasputin.

Yes, his grandmother Victoria Milford Haven was a Princess of Hesse. Although she was a very practical and pragmatic woman she never got over what happened to her younger sister Alix and her family and of course another sister (great aunt to Philip) ended up being thrown down a mineshaft by the Bolsheviks, with others while still alive. She was the Grand Duchess Serge. Her husband had been assassinated earlier but he was uncle to the last Tsar, a younger brother to Tsar Alexander III.

[LouisFerdinand]

Maximilian, Margrave of Baden   
Maximilian, Margrave Of Baden - YouTube

[Curryong]

**Respect is not a given in life just because a person has money, power, or a title, it is earned by how a person treats other people*....Family comes first in life as that is who we are born into yet Harry has shown he has NO respect for his family and mostly his grandparents., There is NO SPIN on how he has treated his family or friends, and that goes double for Meghan.

Family comes first does it? Not in the BRF it seems. Prince Philip?s nephew, Max, Margrave of Baden, died very recently. Charles was taken to Baden to see the family with his father and sister many times in childhood. Yet when the funeral of this cousin of Charles was held, which royal representative of the Windsors was there? No Anne, Max?s cousin, no Charles, Max?s cousin, no Edward, not even Andrew, also cousins. Family comes first in life?.??

Yet when Prince Philip died three members of Philip?s family from Germany (including Bernhard the new Margarve of Baden) made a huge effort to attend his funeral - time in quarantine in the UK, Covid tests, then attending the service and immediately leaving at the end. Attending was important to them, that?s why. Family!

And now we have Constantine of Greece, a man related to both the late Prince Philip and the late Queen. An ex King we were told for years by the media who was a close friend and confidante to Charles, a godfather to William. He and his wife Queen Anne Marie (who is also related to the British royal family) lived for years in London.

Royals from the Danish, Spanish, Belgians and other European royal families are making the time and effort to go to Greece to attend Constantine?s funeral. Their attendance has been announced. Family!

And the BRF? MIA again it seems as there is no indication that anybody from the Windsor family?s senior ranks (or even junior such as the Danish-born Duchess of Gloucester) will be attending. Family? In BRF terms it seems only when it doesn?t inconvenience them!

[TLLK]

Lady Pamela Hicks (cousin of the late Duke of Edinburgh) has a book coming out in the Spring of 2023.

My Years with the Queen: and Other Stories - Lady Pamela Hicks - Google Books

Lady Pamela Hicks will share intimate details of her life as lady-in-waiting in memoir offering an ?unequalled portrait? of the Queen | Tatler

Her new book, My Years With The Queen and Other Stories, will no doubt offer fascinating insights into what went on behind-the-scenes during some of the most important moments of the Queen?s life, including her wedding and coronation. This will be the third title published by Lady Pamela, following 2007?s India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power and Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten, published in 2012.

[TLLK]

Today is the 101st anniversary of the wedding of Louis Mountbatten (Prince Phillip's uncle) and Edwina Ashley.

1922: Marriage to Mountbatten | mountbatten

[LouisFerdinand]

Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia attended the Mountbatten wedding.

[Curryong]

Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia attended the Mountbatten wedding.

Yes, she was a very old lady then and most of her children with Alexander III were dead. She remained close to her sister Alexandra, even though Alex?s deafness irritated her considerably, as it would anybody I suppose, as out of vanity she refused to use an ear trumpet.

I believe that at this time, although White Russian forces had fought their way to the property where Nicholas II and his family were murdered, just too late, there was still no news officially of where the bodies were and the Dowager Empress believed for a very long time that perhaps they or one or two had survived and were still being held by the Bolsheviks within Russia. I believe she knew that her son Michael had been killed.

[TLLK]

August 27, 2023 was the 44th anniversary of the murder of the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, his grandson Lord Nicholas Knatchbull, his daughter's mother-in-law Lady Bradbourne and a local boy Paul Maxwell. Injured in the explosion were his eldest daughter Patricia and her son Timothy Knatchbull.

On the anniversary of his assassination, we look back on the murder of Louis Mountbatten by the IRA | Daily Mail Online

It is now the best part of half a century distant.

But the blast that murdered Louis Mountbatten, Prince Philip's uncle and 'surrogate grandfather' to Prince Charles on this day in 1979 still echoes down the years.

The bomb which the IRA planted on his fishing boat at Mullaghmore on Carlingford Lough killed Mountbatten,  one of his twin grandsons, Nicholas Knatchbull, his daughter-in-law Lady Doreen Brabourne and a local 15-year-old, Paul Maxwell.

On the same day, 18 more lives were lost when the IRA ambushed a convoy of British soldiers with two roadside bombs at nearby Warrenpoint.

[Curryong]

I do remember the occasion of the Mountbatten assassination, and the feeling (at least here in Australia) as being ?Why blow up an old man and his family on their holidays when there are plenty of other targets to go for in Ireland?? And after all, Mountbatten had been peaceably taking his holidays there in County Sligo regularly for years, he was well and truly retired from the Royal Navy and from Command anywhere and was aged.

Of course it was recognised that Mountbatten was a high profile person and this was a direct hit at PP I suppose as Consort to the British HOS, who was and is C-in-C of all Britain?s armed forces. I don?t know whether the IRA knew about the closeness between Charles and his great-uncle and mentor at the time they did it, probably not, but it was certainly aimed at the BRF. The worst of it was, as was pointed out at the time, there were children and other relatives killed and injured on that boat.

[TLLK]

Yes it was such a senseless attack on Mountbatten, his family and Paul Maxwell. Reportedly Mountbatten was well-known and liked by those in County Sligo.

[LouisFerdinand]

Princess Cecilie of Greece was one of Prince Philip's sisters.   
Royals from the past ? on Instagram: ?Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse an? | Princess alice of battenberg, Princess

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Princess Cecilie of Greece was one of Prince Philip's sisters.   
Royals from the past ? on Instagram: ?Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse an? | Princess alice of battenberg, Princess

She was the sister who was killed, along with her family, in a terrible plane crash in Belgium while on their way to a family wedding. The first of the siblings to die.