Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), was a British Royal Navy officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II. During the Second World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command. He was the last Viceroy of India and the first governor-general of independent India. Born in Windsor to the prominent Battenberg family, Mountbatten attended the Royal Naval College, Osborne, before entering the Royal Navy in 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma has received more than 17,792,692 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma is the 828th most popular politician (up from 1,545th in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 361st in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Politician.

Mountbatten was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II. He served as First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy from 1954 to 1959 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1959 to 1965.