British peer
Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born 8 October 1947), known until 2005 as Lord Romsey and until 2017 as the Lord Brabourne , is a British peer . He is a second cousin of King Charles III .
Lord Mountbatten was born at King's College Hospital in London [ 1] Patricia Knatchbull , née John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne .[ 2]
Mountbatten was educated at the Dragon School , in Oxford , and Gordonstoun School , Elgin , Moray , Scotland. He subsequently attended the University of Kent in southeast England.
He followed his father into the British film industry in the 1970s, working as location manager on A Bridge Too Far Death on the Nile Quatermass [ 3]
On the death of his father on 23 September 2005, he became the 8th Baron Brabourne , of Brabourne in the County of Kent , in the peerage of the United Kingdom . He also succeeded to the Knatchbull Baronetcy , of Mersham Hatch in the County of Kent, in the baronetage of England . On the death of his mother on 13 June 2017, he became Earl Mountbatten of Burma , also a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom created for his grandfather, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten .
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 . He is also related to author Jane Austen , as his father, John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne , was a direct descendant of her brother Edward Austen Knight .[ 4]
Marriage and children [ edit ] Mountbatten is married to Penelope Meredith Eastwood [ 5] Angus Steakhouse chain, and Marian Elizabeth (1926–2020), née Hood.[ 6] Romsey Abbey , less than two months after the IRA murdered his 79-year-old maternal grandfather, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ; his 14-year-old younger brother, Nicholas Knatchbull; and his 83-year-old paternal grandmother, Doreen Knatchbull, Dowager Lady Brabourne . The family home is Broadlands , Hampshire .
The 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife have three children and three grandchildren:
Nicholas Louis Charles Norton Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne (born 15 May 1981), married Ambre Pouzet on 20 May 2021 at Broadlands . They have a son, The Hon. Alexander Knatchbull.[ 7]
Lady Alexandra Victoria Edwina Diana Knatchbull (born 5 December 1982); a goddaughter of Diana, Princess of Wales . She married Thomas Hooper, CEO of Third Space Learning, on 25 June 2016, at Romsey Abbey .[ 8] [ 9]
The Hon. Leonora Louise Marie Elizabeth Knatchbull (25 June 1986 – 22 October 1991). She died of kidney cancer at the age of five years and is buried in the grounds of the family home, Broadlands ; see Leonora Children's Cancer Fund .[ 10] From 2010 to 2014, Mountbatten was in an extramarital relationship with Eugenie Nuttall, widow of Sir Nicholas Nuttall , 3rd Baronet, who was heir to the Edmund Nuttall Limited construction company.[ 11] [ 12]
Coat of arms of Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Notes
The arms were granted in 1966.[ 13]
Crest
1st, On a Chapeau Gules, turned up Ermine, an Ounce statant Ermine, spotted Sable (Knatchbull); 2nd, Out of a Ducal Coronet Or, a Plume of Ostrich Feathers alternately Argent and Sable (Mountbatten); 3rd, Out of a Ducal Coronet Or, two Horns barry of ten Argent and Gules, issuing from each three Linden Leaves Vert, and from the outer side of each horn four Branches barwise having three like Leaves pendent therefrom Vert (Hesse)
Escutcheon
Quarterly 1st, Azure, in bend three Crosses-Crosslet fitchée between two Bendlets Or (Knatchbull); 2nd, Argent, two Pallets Sable (Mountbatten); 3rd, Azure, a Lion rampant double queued barry of ten Argent and Gules, crowned Or, within a Bordure compony Gules and Argent (Hesse); 4th, The Royal Arms differenced by a Label of three-points Argent, the centre point charged with a Rose Gules, and the outer points with an Ermine Spot Sable (Princess Alice).
Supporters
Two Lions queue fourchée and crowned all or.
Motto
1st, IN CRUCIFIXA GLORIA MEA (My Glory is in the Cross)(Knatchbull); 2nd, IN HONOUR BOUND (Mountbatten).
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Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 184.
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