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| | English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Lady Louise Mountbatten Windsor. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, the seventh grandchild of Elizabeth II and only child of Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie Rhys-Jones, the daughter of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones and Mary O'Sullivan, was born a month premature by emergency caesarian section, due to placental abruption on 8 November, 2003 at Frimley Park Hospital. |
 | | For the occasion, Louise wore the 163 year old honiton lace and white satin christening gown which was made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria and is traditionally worn by all members of the royal family. |
 | | The surname Mountbatten-Windsor was assumed by the Queen for her descendants in 1960, previously, on the insistence of the Queen's grandmother, Queen Mary of Teck, (the widow of George V, who established the surname of Windsor for his dynasty) the surname of the Queen and her descendants remained Windsor. |
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