To: joshua c
Lord Mountbatten was Philip’s uncle. The family name was originally Battenberg. “Berg” is German for “mountain,” so they de-Germanized it by changing “Battenberg” to “Mountbatten”.
111 posted on
09/08/2022 11:48:20 AM PDT by
Campion
(Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
To: Campion
yeah WWI was a dicey time for monarchs and German sounding names
131 posted on
09/08/2022 12:01:15 PM PDT by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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