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

* 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.

After the Liberation War, knyaz Alexander Battenberg invited architects from Austria – Hungary to shape the new capital's architectural appearance.

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

Alexander Joseph, Prince of Bulgaria GCB ( 5 April 1857 – 23 October 1893 ), known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince ( knyaz ) of modern Bulgaria, reigning from 29 April 1879 to 7 September 1886.

Battenberg Hill on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Prince Alexander Battenberg of Bulgaria.

* Bourchier, " Prince Alexander of Battenberg ," in Fortnightly Review, January 1894.

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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 ).

The line of Hesse-Darmstadt was also part of the morganatic line of the Battenberg family when Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine married to Countess Julia Hauke.

Princess Julia of Battenberg ( 12 November 1825 / 24 November 1825 – 19 September 1895 ) was the wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, the mother of Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria, and ancestress to the current generations of the British and the Spanish royal families.

Alexander and Julia's eldest son, Ludwig ( Louis ) of Battenberg, became a British subject, and during World War I, due to anti-German feelings prevalent at the time, anglicised his name to Mountbatten ( a literal translation of the German Battenberg ), as did his nephews, the sons of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice.

Beatrice fell in love with Prince Henry of Battenberg, the son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia von Hauke.

Her father was Prince Henry of Battenberg, the fourth child and third son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by his morganatic wife Countess Julia von Hauke, and her mother was Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

In the 19th century, the Serbian term knez ( кнез ) and the Bulgarian term knyaz ( княз ) were revived to denote semi-independent rulers of those countries, such as Alexander Karađorđević and Alexander of Battenberg.

) in 1851, at her morganatic marriage to Grand Duke Louis ' brother Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, and elevated her title to Princess of Battenberg with the style Serene Highness ( HSH ) in 1858.

** Prince Alexander of Battenberg ( 1857 – 1893 ), became Prince of Bulgaria in 1879 ( later Count of Hartenau )