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Battenberg family, 1906

Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven with his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse, their four children, their son-in-law and two grandchildren. From left (seated), Princess Louise (1889-1965), later Lady Louise Mountbatten and then Queen Louise of Sweden, Princess Victoria (1863-1950), Marchioness of Milford Haven holding her two grand-daughters, Princess Margarita (1905-1981) and Princess Theodora (1906-1969). Next to her is her eldest daugher (and mother of the two babies), Princess Alice of Battenberg, then Princess Andrew of Greece (1885-1969), mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Seated on the ground are Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892-1938). Standing is Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (1854-1921) and his son-in-law, and husband of Alice, Prince Andrew of Greece (1882-1944). Date: 1906

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Battenberg family c.1895

Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (1854-1921), pictured with his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse (1863-1950) and their three eldest children - Prince George of Battenberg (1892-1938), later George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, (middle), Princess Louise of Battenberg (1889-1965), later Lady Louise Mountbatten and then Queen of Sweden, (and right), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885-1969), later Princess Andrew of Greece, the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Date: c.1895

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First Balkan War (1912 - 1913) - Hand-to-hand combat

Hand-to-hand combat during the First Balkan War as Greek troops overun a Turkish gun battery. The war lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria) against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies, and achieved rapid success. As a result of the war, almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire were captured and partitioned among the allies, and an independent Albanian state set up. Despite their success, the Balkan states were unsatisfied with the peace settlement, and the tensions among them, with the unifying Ottoman threat gone, would soon result in the Second Balkan War

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