Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma

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| honorific prefix=The Right Honourable

| name= The Earl Mountbatten of Burma

| predecessor=

| image = File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg File:Lord Mountbatten of Burma-CoA-Knatchbull-Shield.svg

| spouse = {{marriage|Penelope Eastwood|20 October 1979}}

| issue= Nicholas Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne
Lady Alexandra Hooper
The Hon. Leonora Knatchbull

| father = John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne

| mother = Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma

| birth_name = Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|10|8|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Denmark Hill, London, England

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Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born 8 October 1947), known until 2005 as Lord Romsey and until 2017 as the Lord Brabourne, is a British peer. He is a second cousin of King Charles III.

Life and education

Lord Mountbatten was born at King's College Hospital in London{{Cite web |title=3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma |url=https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com/3rd-earl-mountbatten-of-burma |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=mountbatten |language=en |archive-date=3 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503154643/https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com/3rd-earl-mountbatten-of-burma |url-status=live }} as the eldest son of Patricia Knatchbull, {{nee}} Mountbatten, later 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne.{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=MtqWADts3JPGKHHs7wBDxg&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=15 February 2022|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS|archive-date=15 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215152333/https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=MtqWADts3JPGKHHs7wBDxg&scan=1|url-status=live}}

Mountbatten was educated at the Dragon School, in Oxford, and Gordonstoun School, Elgin, Moray, Scotland. He subsequently attended the University of Kent in southeast England.

He followed his father into the British film industry in the 1970s, working as location manager on A Bridge Too Far and associate producer of Death on the Nile and the television serial Quatermass.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0460551/ |title=IMDb |website=imdb.com |access-date=2020-03-29 |archive-date=31 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231025552/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0460551/ |url-status=live }}

On the death of his father on 23 September 2005, he became the 8th Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent, in the peerage of the United Kingdom. He also succeeded to the Knatchbull Baronetcy, of Mersham Hatch in the County of Kent, in the baronetage of England. On the death of his mother on 13 June 2017, he became Earl Mountbatten of Burma, also a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom created for his grandfather, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten.

He is a descendant of Queen Victoria, whose second daughter Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was his maternal great-great-grandmother. He is also a second cousin to Charles III, through his mother and Charles' father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was his godfather. Mountbatten is the godfather of Philip's grandson, the Prince of Wales. He is also related to author Jane Austen, as his father, John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, was a direct descendant of her brother Edward Austen Knight.John Halperin, The Life of Jane Austen (London: Branch Line, 1984, {{ISBN|978-0710805188}}

Marriage and children

Mountbatten is married to Penelope Meredith Eastwood{{cite web| url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a37382216/penny-knatchbull-prince-phillip-the-crown-season-5/| website=cosmopolitan| title=Everything you need to know about Penny Knatchbull ahead of Season 5 of The Crown| date=24 August 2021| access-date=24 August 2021| archive-date=8 November 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108190636/https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a37382216/penny-knatchbull-prince-phillip-the-crown-season-5/| url-status=live}} (born 16 April 1953), a daughter of Reginald Wray Frank Eastwood (1912–1980), a self-made millionaire former butcher who founded the Angus Steakhouse chain, and Marian Elizabeth (1926–2020), née Hood.{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/people-london-england-the/mi_7998/is_2002_April_14/pal-flatter/ai_n36603454/ |title=CBSi |website=FindArticles.com |access-date=2017-03-28}} They were wed on 20 October 1979 at Romsey Abbey, less than two months after the IRA murdered his 79-year-old maternal grandfather, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma; his 14-year-old younger brother, Nicholas Knatchbull; and his 83-year-old paternal grandmother, Doreen Knatchbull, Dowager Lady Brabourne. The family home is Broadlands, Hampshire.

The 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife have three children and three grandchild:

Nicholas Louis Charles Norton Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne (born 15 May 1981), his father's heir apparent; married Ambre Pouzet on 20 May 2021 at Broadlands. They have one son:
The Hon. Alexander Knatchbull (born June 2022){{cite news |last1=Davies-Evitt |first1=Doris |title=Prince Charles's godson welcomes first child |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-charless-godson-welcomes-first-child |access-date=9 July 2022 |work=Tatler |date=27 June 2022}}
Lady Alexandra Victoria Edwina Diana Hooper (née Knatchbull; born 5 December 1982); a goddaughter of Diana, Princess of Wales. She married Thomas Edward Huntly Hooper on 25 June 2016, at Romsey Abbey. They have two sons:
Inigo Norton Sebastian Mountbatten Hooper (born 21 December 2017)
Alden Peter Theodore Mountbatten Hooper (born 27 March 2020){{cite web |last1=Cope |first1=Rebecca |title=Princess Diana's goddaughter welcomes second child |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/alexandra-knatchbull-thomas-hooper-second-baby |website=Tatler|date=12 May 2020 |access-date=9 August 2020}}
The Hon. Leonora Louise Marie Elizabeth Knatchbull (25 June 1986 – 22 October 1991). She died of kidney cancer at the age of five years and is buried in the grounds of the family home, Broadlands. The charity Leonora Children's Cancer Fund was founded in her memory.

From 2010 to 2014, Mountbatten was in an extramarital relationship with Eugenie, Lady Nuttall, widow of Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Baronet, who was heir to the Edmund Nuttall Limited construction company.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2022/11/14/death-leonora-knatchbull-tragic-saga-played-heart-british-aristocracy | title=The death of Leonora Knatchbull and the tragic saga that played out at the heart of British aristocracy | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=14 November 2022 | last1=Foster | first1=Lucy }}{{cite web|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-penny-knatchbull|title=Who is Countess Mountbatten? Prince Philip's great friend among 30 mourners at his funeral|work=Tatler|first=Rebecca|last=Cope|date=16 April 2021|accessdate=11 October 2022|archive-date=5 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805134252/https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-penny-knatchbull|url-status=live}}

Arms

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Ancestry

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|1= 1. Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma

|2= 2. John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne

|3= 3. Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma

|4= 4. Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne

|5= 5. Lady Doreen Browne

|6= 6. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

|7= 7. Edwina Ashley

|8= 8. Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne

|9= 9. Helena von Brunningen

|10= 10. George Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo

|11= 11. Agatha Hodgson

|12= 12. Prince Louis of Battenberg

|13= 13. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine

|14= 14. Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple

|15= 15. Amalia Cassel

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References

Bibliography

Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 184.

External links

{{cite web|url=http://www.broadlands.net/mountfs.htm |title=The Mountbattens|website=Broadlands.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218114113/http://www.broadlands.net/mountfs.htm|archive-date=18 February 2010 |url-status=dead}}
{{cite web|url=http://www.sligoheritage.com/archmbatten.htm |title=Classiebawn and the Assassination of Lord Mountbatten at Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo; History, Heritage, Irish Folklore, and News from County Sligo, Ireland |website=Sligoheritage.com |access-date=2017-03-28}}
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