Talk:Battenberg family
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Is this the town from which the name Mountbatten in the British royal family derives? -- Jmabel 22:43, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, it is.
What?? No mention of the pink and yellow sponge cakes with marzipan icing! I'm shocked and appalled! --Kiand 22:42, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
I read somewhere in Wikipedia that it was decreed in 1960 that the surname Mountbatten will in future generations be incorporated into the cadet branches of the British Royal Family; the descendants of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth would therefore have the surname Mountbatten-Windsor. Is that correct?Cosal 00:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
- See the page Mountbatten-Windsor for a discussion of that point (which isn't straight-forward). Indisciplined 23:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A *German* noble family?
This may be obvious to everyone but me... however, I read the whole article trying in vain to find out WHERE these lovely princes & princesses were FROM!! Is there some good reason why it doesn't say anywhere that this is a German noble family? I know - it does say "of Hesse," but that only helps if you know where Hesse is, which I didn't until I followed the link. On the disambiguation page it gives that information, but it would seem logical to me to have it in the article itself! (Please forgive my parochialism - my European geography is *quite* rusty!) --Mpwrmnt 07:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- I am not trying to start an argument here -- but many of the so-called "noble" families of Europe do not fit neatly into any nationality box, since they all married (may be not always happily) across state and ethnic lines for dynastic reasons, to secure a possible future inheritance, to seal a peace treaty, to obtain a good dowry, etc. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, for instance, was a grandson of Queen Victoria and a first cousin of the Tsar, and the British royal family received lots of "infusions" of "German" blood ever since the Hanoverians assumed the throne in London. Cosal 00:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
