List of Famous people with last name Battenberg
Princess Alice of Battenberg
Princess Alice of Battenberg was the mother of Prince Philip and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II.
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven,, formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related to the British royal family.
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was a relative of the British royal family as a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Unlike other members of the Battenberg family, who were accorded the lower rank of Serene Highness, Victoria Eugenie was born with the rank of Highness due to a Royal Warrant issued in 1886 by Queen Victoria.
Alexander of Battenberg
Alexander Joseph, known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince (knyaz) of the Principality of Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886. The Bulgarian Grand National Assembly elected him as Prince of autonomous Bulgaria, which officially remained within the Ottoman Empire, in 1879. He dissolved the assembly in 1880 and suspended the Constitution in 1881, considering it too liberal. He restored the Constitution in 1883, leading to open conflict with Russia that made him popular in Bulgaria. Unification with Eastern Rumelia was achieved and recognised by the powers in 1885. A coup carried out by pro-Russian Bulgarian Army officers forced him to abdicate in September 1886. He later became a general in the Austrian army.
Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry of Battenberg was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse. He became a member of the British Royal Family by marriage to Queen Victoria's youngest child, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom. Through his daughter, Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, who became the Queen of Spain by marriage, Henry is a direct ancestor of current members of the Spanish royal family.
Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg
Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, also known as Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg,, , was the fourth and youngest son and child of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Countess Julia von Hauke.
Princess Marie of Battenberg
Princess Marie Caroline of Battenberg was a Princess of Battenberg and, by marriage, the Princess of Erbach-Schönberg. She worked as a writer and translator.
Prince Maurice of Battenberg
Prince Maurice of Battenberg, was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, and the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria. He was known as Prince Maurice of Battenberg throughout his life, since he died before the British Royal Family relinquished their German titles during World War I and the Battenbergs changed their name to Mountbatten.