“My grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg, was First Sea Lord in 1914. My father was First Sea Lord in 1955. I was First Sea Lord in 1959. It runs in the family.”

About Louis Mountbatten

Statesman • British

Louis Mountbatten was a British Royal Navy officer, statesman, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He served as the last Viceroy of India, overseeing the partition of British India into India and Pakistan....