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Article: answers to correspondents; Lillie, the royal mother.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2002
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QUESTION Did actress Lillie Langtry gave birth to the child of the future Edward VII in 1881? If so, what happened to the child and are there any descendants?
THEO ARONSON'S The King In Love states that the father of Lillie Langtry's daughter Jeanne-Marie Langtry, born in Paris in March 1881, wasn't the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) but Prince Louis of Battenberg, a Royal Navy officer who met Lillie in spring 1880.
Six months before the birth of his daughter, Prince Louis was sent packing on a long sea journey.
He later married Princess Victoria of Hesse, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and they were the parents of Lord Louis Mountbatten ...