Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma


Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma, known until 2005 as Lord Romsey and until 2017 as The Lord Brabourne, is a British peer.

Life and education

was born in London as the eldest son of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma and John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne.
Mountbatten was educated at the Dragon School, in Oxford, and Gordonstoun School, Elgin, Moray, Scotland. He subsequently attended the University of Kent in southeast England.
He followed his father into the British film industry in the 1970s, working as location manager on A Bridge Too Far and associate producer of Death on the Nile and the television serial Quatermass.
On the death of his father on 23 September 2005, he became Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent, in the peerage of the United Kingdom. He also succeeded to the title of Baronet Knatchbull, of Mersham Hatch in the County of Kent, in the baronetage of England. On the death of his mother on 13 June 2017, he became Earl Mountbatten of Burma, also a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom created for his grandfather, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India.
He is a descendant of Queen Victoria, whose second daughter Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was his maternal great-great-grandmother. He is also a second cousin to Charles, Prince of Wales through his mother and Charles' father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip is also his godfather and he in turn is a godfather of Philip's grandson, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

Marriage and children

Mountbatten married Penelope Meredith Eastwood, a daughter of Reginald Wray Frank Eastwood, a self-made millionaire who began his working life as a butcher at 15 and founded the Angus Steakhouse chain, and his wife Marian Elizabeth Hood, on 20 October 1979 at Romsey Abbey, Romsey, in Hampshire, where his parents were married in 1946, only two months after the bomb attack committed by the IRA which killed his grand-father, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Earl's younger brother, Nicholas Knatchbull, and his 83-year-old grandmother, Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne.
The family home is Broadlands, also in Hampshire.
The 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife had three children and two grandchildren: