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Queen Victoria was his great-great-great-grandmother, and he is a descendant of Alexander Pushkin and Abram Gannibal. [5] He is also a second cousin of King Charles III through both of their fathers. His paternal grandfather was Prince George of Battenberg, through whom he is a morganatic descendant of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Prince George holding John. Photograph by James Lafayette, 1909. Much of John's early life was spent at Sandringham with his siblings— Prince Edward (known as David to the royal family), Prince Albert (Known as Bertie), Princess Mary, Prince Henry and Prince George— under the care of their nanny Charlotte "Lala" Bill. [4]
The Mountbatten family is a British family that originated as a branch of the German princely Battenberg family.The name was adopted by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor.
Prince John 1905–1919: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and of Greece and Denmark 1921–2021: Queen Elizabeth II 1926–2022 r. 1952–2022: Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon 1930–2002: Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon 1930–2017: Prince William of Gloucester 1941–1972: Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester b. 1944
He is a descendant of Queen Victoria, whose second daughter Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was his maternal great-great-grandmother. He is also a second cousin to Charles III, through his mother and Charles' father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was his godfather. Mountbatten is the godfather of Philip's grandson, the Prince of Wales.
Edward's youngest brother, Prince John, died at the age of 13 on 18 January 1919 after a severe epileptic seizure. [25] Edward, who was 11 years older than John and had hardly known him, saw his death as "little more than a regrettable nuisance". [26]
Prince William and Prince Harry may still be taking space from one another, but when remembering their late mother, Princess Diana, in his documentary, William gave a nod to his younger brother.
Prince John may refer to: John, King of England (1166–1216) known as Prince John during the reigns of his father and older brother; Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905–1919), youngest son of King George V; John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316–1336), second son of Edward II; John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), third son ...