As a title in the British Peerage, “Earl Mountbatten of Burma” belongs to the family of Lord Mountbatten.
Designed on October 28, 1947, it was presented to Rear Admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.
In the absence of male successors, the following remainder was set forth in the letters patent granting the title.
When Lord Mountbatten passed away, his eldest daughter Patricia became the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma because he had no sons.
The peerages will pass to Lady Pamela Hicks and her male lawful children if the male line of descent from the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma dies out. If both sisters’ legitimate male lines die out, so do their peerages.
Who is Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma?
On October 8, 1947, in King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, the world welcomed the third Norton, third Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, third Lord Romsey.
Eighth Lord Brabourne, and seventeenth Baronet of Mersham Hatch. John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Lord Brabourne.
And Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017), are his parents (1924-2005).
He used his mother’s courtesy title and was styled “Lord Romsey” after Mountbatten’s death on August 27, 1979.
Until his father’s death on September 23, 2005 (when Norton succeeded to his father’s Barony), at which point he resumed using his father’s courtesy title.
After his mother Patricia passed away on June 13, 2017, he became the 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma, uniting the peerages of his parents.
The Formative Years of Norton Knatchbull, Third Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Lord Mountbatten was the eldest son of Patricia Knatchbull.
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma Life and Education
Mountbatten attended both the Dragon School and Gordonstoun School in the United Kingdom. Afterward, he enrolled at the University of Kent, located in the southeast of England.
Like his father before him, he entered the British film industry in the 1970s, where he had positions as location manager on A Bridge Too Far.
Associate producer on Death on the Nile, and set decorator on the TV series Quatermass. In addition, he became the new Baron Knatchbull of Mersham Hatch, Kent, England.
After his father passed away on September 23, 2005, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent.
Conclusion
Through his mother, Norton is a direct descendant of Queen Victoria (1819(1837-1901), and so a potential heir to the British Throne.
But despite his aristocratic background, he is not actually a member of the Royal Family. On November 18th, 1947, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev & Rt Hon.
Geoffrey Fisher, subsequently Lord Fisher of Lambeth (1887-1972), baptised him in St. John the Baptist Church in Mersham, Kent, which is close to Ashford (who had married his parents).
