Alfonso XIII was declared of age in 1902 and he married Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena of Battenberg, the granddaughter of the British queen Victoria, on 31 May 1906.

Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born at Mon Repos on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921, the only son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg.

Admiral John Fisher replaced Battenberg as First Sea Lord on 27 October, and the following day Fisher ordered Cradock not to engage von Spee without Canopus.

He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria ( his great-grandmother ); the German Emperor ( his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy ); Princess Henry of Battenberg ( his paternal grandaunt ); the Duchess of Cumberland ( his paternal grandaunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince George of Greece ( his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy ); Princess Carl of Denmark ( his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy ); Prince Alexander of Teck ( his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's granduncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts ( for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy ).

However, on 4 December 1886, Queen Victoria had issued letters patent granting the title of " Highness " to all sons and daughters of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice, thus the Princess was born Her Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.

Retrieved on 16 July 2007 </ ref > The name is an Anglicisation of the German Battenberg, a small town in Hesse.

Prince Leopold's family name — Mountbatten — did not exist in 1876, because it was originally adopted on 14 July 1917 by a branch of the Battenberg family due to rising anti-German sentiment among the British public during World War I.

The Bulgarian National Bank's headquarters in Sofia are located on the central Battenberg Square.

" Now that I am calmer I see the absolute impossibility of going on leading a life which was killing her and driving me nearly mad ," Ernst wrote to his elder sister Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg.

Lace embellishments on linens also make them collectable, such as Battenberg lace.

The centre of Battenberg lies in the Ederbergland, or Eder Highland, to which the Burgwald abutting the town to the east also belongs, on the southern edge of the Sauerland and the Rothaargebirge.

Battenberg borders in the north on the community of Bromskirchen, in the northeast on the community of Allendorf, in the southeast on the community of Burgwald ( all three in Waldeck-Frankenberg ), in the south on the community of Münchhausen am Christenberg ( Marburg-Biedenkopf ), and in the west on the towns of Hatzfeld ( Waldeck-Frankenberg ) and Bad Berleburg ( Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Hatzfeld borders in the north and east on the town of Battenberg ( Waldeck-Frankenberg ), in the south on the town of Biedenkopf ( Marburg-Biedenkopf ), and in the west on the town of Bad Berleburg ( Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia ).

After assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in March 1881, Bulgarian Prince Alexander of Battenberg attempted to crack down on liberal politicians.

The construction of the palace began soon after the land which it occupies was given to Knyaz Alexander Battenberg as a present by the Greek bishopric on 16 March 1882.

Lord Carisbrooke died in 1960, aged seventy-three, at Kensington Palace, and was buried at the Battenberg Chapel in St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.

; 1891: Victoria and Albert's last grandchild, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, is born.

It is the literal translation of the German Battenberg, which refers to Battenberg, a small town in Hesse.

On 3 April 1906, King Edward VII, in order to elevate her standing prior to her wedding, raised her status to Royal Highness per royal warrant which read: " Our Will and Pleasure is and we do hereby declare and ordain that from and after the date of this Warrant our Most Dear Niece Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena, only daughter of Our Most Dear Sister Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore ( Princess Henry of Battenberg ) shall be styled entitled and called " Her Royal Highness " before her name and such Titles and Appellations which to her belong in all Deeds Records Instruments or Documents whatsoever wherein she may at any time hereafter be named or described.

Mountbatten is the family name originally adopted by a branch of the Battenberg family during World War I because of rising anti-German sentiment among the British public.

* The Battenberg Mausoleum, Sofia, is completed.

The name Battenberg, in its anglicised form, is now a part of the personal surname, Mountbatten-Windsor, of some members of the British Royal Family.

He is a paternal great-great grandfather of Charles, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne, since his daughter Olga married George I of Greece, whose son Andrea married Alice Battenberg and begat Philip, Charles ' father.

Lord Milford Haven is a descendant of Prince Louis of Battenberg, a German Prince related to the British Royal Family, and later the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven.

Battenberg is a small town in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.

The town is noted for giving its name to the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the ruling House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and through it, the name Mountbatten used by members of the British royal family, a literal translation of Battenberg.

Battenberg cake is a light sponge cake.

At his birth, Alexander, was styled His Serene Highness Prince Alexander of Battenberg, because the child of a morganatic marriage is ineligible for " Grand-Ducal Highness " status.

She was named after Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, the daughter of Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, and Princess Helena, Victoria's third daughter.

The first Battenberg cake was made in that German style to celebrate the wedding of Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and was named after her husband to be, Prince Louis of Battenberg.

Due to anti-German resentment in Britain during the First World War, Prince Louis anglicised his name from Battenberg to Mountbatten ; however the cake named after him continued to be called a Battenberg.

Shortly after Philip's birth, his maternal grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg then known as Louis Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, died in London.

The first Knyaz ( Prince Regnant ) of the Third Bulgarian State, Alexander of Battenberg abdicated in 1886, only seven years after he was elected.

* May 31, 1906 – Catalan anarchist Mateu Morral tries to kill King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg after their wedding by throwing a bomb into the wedding procession following the ceremony.

When Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne in 1952, a question arose as to whether the royal family's name would change after her to " Mountbatten "— the name adopted by the Queen's husband, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, from his mother's family (" Battenberg " translated to English ).

Prince Louis's elder daughter, Princess Alice of Battenberg, married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark ; their son, Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark, married the heiress presumptive of the British throne, later Elizabeth II, after having renounced his Greek titles and taken his grandfather's and uncle's surname, Mountbatten.

The First and the Third Grand National Assemblies also elected the first two Bulgarian monarchs after the liberation from the Turkish yoke-The Grand Duke ( Knjaz ) Alexander Battenberg and the Grand Duke ( Knjaz ) Ferdinand Saxe Coburg-Gotha.

Queen was part of the Atlantic Fleet under Prince Louis of Battenberg.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier.

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Louis of Battenberg and their four children Princess Alice of Battenberg, Louise, George and Louis. Lord Mountbatten was born as His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg, although his German styles and titles were dropped in 1917.

He was the youngest child and the second son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.

His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Julia of Battenberg.

In 1914, due to the growing anti-German sentiments that swept across Europe during the first few months of World War I, Prince Louis of Battenberg was removed from his position as First Sea Lord in the Admiralty and publicly humiliated by King George V and Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

In June 1917, when the Royal Family stopped using their German names and titles and adopted the more British-sounding " Windsor ": Prince Louis of Battenberg became Louis Mountbatten, and was created Marquess of Milford Haven.

* January 20 – Prince Henry of Battenberg, British royal, married to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom ( b. 1858 )

* April 5 – Alexander of Battenberg, first Prince of Bulgaria ( d. 1893 )

The 1851 marriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and German-Polish noblewoman Countess Julia von Hauke ( created Princess of Battenberg ), provided a sovereign prince of Bulgaria, and queen-consorts for Spain and Sweden, as well as ( through female descent ) the consort of the current Queen of the United Kingdom.

The first of these was Prince Alexander of Battenberg who, in 1877, was agreed upon by the Great Powers as the best candidate for the new throne of Bulgaria.

She and her children were made Counts de Torby, her younger daughter, Countess Nada ( 1896 – 1963 ) marrying, in 1916 Prince George of Battenberg, future Marquess of Milford Haven and scion of the House of Battenberg, a morganatic branch of the grandducal House of Hesse which had settled in England and inter-married with descendants of Queen Victoria.

Like the House of Battenberg in Europe, Mandela's family has since rehabilitated its dynastic status to some extent: Mandela was still in prison when his daughter Zenani was married to Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini in 1973, elder brother of King Mswati III of Swaziland.

* Prince Berthold of Baden ( 24 February 1906-27 October 1963 ); later Margrave of Baden ; married Princess Theodora, daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg.