List of titles and honours of Lord Mountbatten

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, received numerous titles, decorations and honorary appointments during his time as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, in the Second World War, the last Viceroy and Governor-General of India, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, Chief of the Defence Staff, and owing to his close relation to the British royal family and numerous other European royal families.

Where two dates are shown, the first indicates the date of receiving the title or award (the title of Prince Louis of Battenberg being given as from his birth) and the second indicates the date of its loss, renunciation or when its use was discontinued.

Royal and noble titles and styles

 * 25 June 1900 – 14 July 1917: His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg
 * 14 July 1917 – 7 November 1917: Louis Mountbatten, Esq.
 * 7 November 1917 – 23 August 1946: Lord Louis Mountbatten
 * 23 August 1946 – 21 February 1947: The Right Honourable The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma
 * 21 February 1947 – 28 October 1947: His Excellency The Right Honourable The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma
 * 28 October 1947 – 21 June 1948: His Excellency The Right Honourable The Earl Mountbatten of Burma
 * 21 June 1948 – 27 August 1979: The Right Honourable The Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Mountbatten was born a prince of Battenberg, a morganatic cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, with the style of Serene Highness. On 14 July 1917, his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, dropped his German princely title due to anti-German feelings prevalent in Britain during World War I. Members of the Battenberg family living in Britain took the anglicized surname Mountbatten. Until his father was created Marquess of Milford Haven on 7 November 1917, Mountbatten had no title besides his military rank. From then he had the courtesy title Lord prefixed to his Christian name. He continued being styled as such until being raised to the peerage himself, first as Viscount Mountbatten of Burma on 23 August 1946 and later as Earl Mountbatten of Burma, both with the style of The Right Honourable, on 28 October 1947. From 21 February 1947 to 21 June 1948, he carried the additional style of Excellency by virtue of his Indian viceregal positions.

Naval ranks

 * Royal Navy
 * 15 July 1916: Midshipman
 * 15 January 1919: Sub-Lieutenant
 * 15 April 1920: Lieutenant
 * 15 April 1928: Lieutenant-Commander
 * 31 December 1932: Commander
 * 30 June 1937: Captain
 * 2 January 1946: Rear Admiral
 * 22 June 1949: Vice-Admiral
 * 27 January 1953: Admiral
 * 22 October 1956: Admiral of the Fleet

British Empire/Commonwealth realms
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Other commonwealth countries
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Foreign honours
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Wear of orders, decorations, and medals
Awards that were worn regularly by Mountbatten are noted in the above tables and were worn in accordance with customary British conventions applicable to the occasion, the location and to the form of dress worn. Awards not specifically noted were worn by Mountbatten on appropriate occasions relating to the country that made the award, again in accordance with UK conventions. The ribbons worn by Mountbatten at the time of his death were as follows: Displayed as they would be worn on a uniform shirt.

Mountbatten was one of the few persons eligible to wear four stars of British orders of knighthood. On his uniform, he wore the stars of the orders of the Garter, Bath, Star of India and the Royal Victorian Order. No other British national was again eligible until his nephew Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 2017. Mountbatten wore the riband of the Garter, except on collar days, when he wore the Garter collar with the riband of his second highest order, the Order of the Bath. He was the last person to publicly wear the insignia of a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India. Having been appointed personal aide-de-camp to three sovereigns, Edward VIII, George VI and Elizabeth II, he bore the unusual distinction of being allowed to wear three royal cyphers on his epaulettes.

Military

 * 29 January 1965 – 27 August 1979: Colonel, The Life Guards and Gold Stick-in-Waiting
 * 3 August 1965 – 27 August 1979: Colonel Commandant, Royal Marines
 * 3 August 1965 – 27 August 1979: Colonel Commandant, Royal Marines

Civil

 * 20 July 1965 – 1 April 1974: Governor of the Isle of Wight
 * 1 April 1974 – 27 August 1979: Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight
 * 1 April 1974 – 27 August 1979: Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight

City freedoms

 * City of London
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh

Awards

 * Mountbatten Maritime Prize
 * IET Mountbatten Medal

Buildings

 * The Mountbatten School, Romsey, Hampshire
 * Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth, Hampshire
 * Earl Mountbatten Hospice, Isle of Wight
 * Mountbatten Building, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
 * 🇸🇬 Mountbatten MRT station, Singapore

Events

 * Mountbatten Festival of Music
 * Mountbatten Commemorative Lecture

Geographic locations

 * 🇸🇬 Mountbatten, Singapore
 * 🇨🇦 Mountbatten Avenue, Ottawa, Canada

Organizations

 * 🇺🇸 Mountbatten Institute, New York City, USA

Miscellaneous

 * Mountbatten Brailler
 * Mountbatten pink
 * Rosa 'Mountbatten'