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| | English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Lady Louise Mountbatten Windsor. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | 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. |
 | | Louise was the name of the baby's twice four greats grandmother, Louise of Hesse-Cassel, Queen Consort of Denmark and of Lord Mountbatten's sister, Louise of Battenberg, who became Queen Consort of Sweden, while Alice was the name of Prince Phillip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg. |
 | | 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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