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

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and businessman.

Biography

Family

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 Lord Ivar Alexander Michael Mountbatten, DL (born 9 March 1963) is a British aristocrat, farmer, geologist and businessman. He is a former director of SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. Although he is not a member of the B ...

and a descendant of

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previ ...

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Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

, and

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. At the death of his father on 14 April 1970, he became the 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and head of the House of Mountbatten. He is second cousin to

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through both of their fathers. Lord Milford Haven married first Sarah Georgina Walker (born

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, 17 November 1961/2), former wife of Andreas Antoniou (married 1985; divorced 1987), daughter of George Alfred Walker and Jean Maureen (''née'' Hatton), in London on 8 March 1989. The couple were divorced on 27 February 1996 and she married in June 2016 Michael Spencer, Lord Spencer of Alresford. They had two children: * Lady Tatiana Helen Georgia Mountbatten (born London, 16 April 1990) who works in public relations. She married on 23 July 2022, at

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, Alexander 'Alick' Bernard Molyneux Dru (born 1991), son of Bernard Auberon Alexander Dru and Catherine Margaret Norden (and great-grandson of Colonel Aubrey Herbert, great-great-grandson of

Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, (24 June 1831 – 29 June 1890), known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party. He was twice Secretary of State for the C ...

and of

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and great-nephew by marriage of

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). * Henry (Harry) David Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Medina (born 19 October 1991) Lord Milford Haven subsequently married Clare Husted Steel (born

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, 2 September 1960) at

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, on 20 August 1997, without issue.

Career

In 2000, he founded

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, a website which helps consumers compare and change suppliers of various services. The company was sold to the American media firm E. W. Scripps in March 2006 for around £210 million ($400 million). He plays

polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small ha ...

, and

Julian Hipwood Julian Hipwood (born 23 June 1946) is a British polo player and coach.Yolanda Carslaw, 'Who’s who among polo’s star attractions', in ''The Financial Times'', July 23, 201/ref> He started his career playing association football and gradually mo ...

has coached his teams. He won the

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with the Broncos team in 1988 and reached the 2006 final.

Arms

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British people of German descent British people of Russian descent British people of Peruvian descent People educated at Heatherdown School British businesspeople English polo players English people of German descent English people of Russian descent English people of Peruvian descent Marquesses of Milford Haven