George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven

George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven

George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (born 6 June 1961), styled Earl of Medina before 1970, is a British hereditary peer and businessman.

Biography

Family

Born on 6 June 1961, Lord Milford Haven is the elder son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and Janet Mercedes Bryce, the older brother of Lord Ivar Mountbatten, and a descendant of Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great, Alexander Pushkin, and Abram Gannibal. Upon the death of his father on 14 April 1970, he became the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and head of the Mountbatten family. He is a second cousin of Charles III through their fathers.

Lord Milford Haven married, first, Sarah Georgina Walker (born London, Middlesex, 17 November 1961/2), in London on 8 March 1989. She is the daughter of Jean Maureen (née Hatton) and George Alfred Walker. She is the former wife of Andreas Antoniou (married 1985; divorced 1987). Lord Milford Haven and Walker had two children:

• Lady Tatiana Helen Georgia Mountbatten (born London, 16 April 1990), who works in public relations. She married Alexander 'Alick' Bernard Molyneux Dru (born 1991) on 23 July 2022 at Winchester Cathedral. Alick is the son of Bernard Auberon Alexander Dru and Catherine Margaret Norden. He is a great-grandson of Colonel Aubrey Herbert, great-great-grandson of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon and of John Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci and grandnephew (by marriage) of Evelyn Waugh. They have two children: • Elodie Dru (b. 20 September 2023) • Auberon “Albie” Dru (b. 13 April 2025)

• Henry (Harry) David Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Medina (born London, 19 October 1991).

The couple divorced on 27 February 1996. In June 2016, Walker married Michael Spencer, Lord Spencer of Alresford.

Lord Milford Haven subsequently married Clare Husted Steel at Coatue Point in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on 20 August 1997.

Career

In 2000, Lord Milford Haven founded uSwitch, a website to help consumers compare and change suppliers of various services. The company was sold in March 2006 to the American media firm E. W. Scripps for around £210 million ($400 million).

He plays polo and Julian Hipwood has coached his teams. Lord Milford Haven won the Queen's Cup with the Broncos team in 1988 and he reached the final in 2006.