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| On 11 December 1965, she married to William Alexander Kemp (10 July 1921 – 12 December 1991), son of Clarence Arthur Kemp and Helen Janet Ballantyne, a Canadian actor and announcer. | On 11 December 1965, she married to William Alexander Kemp (10 July 1921 – 12 December 1991), son of Clarence Arthur Kemp and Helen Janet Ballantyne, a Canadian actor and announcer. | ||
| Lady Iris had one child by her first marriage: Grania Mountbatten and a son by her second marriage: Robin Alexander Bryan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pendlebury|first=Richard|title=The West Country travel agent's wife 612th in line for the throne and the other unlikely Britons in our list of royal succession|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1032652/The-West-Country-travel-agents-wife-612th-line-throne-unlikely-Britons-list-royal-succession.html|newspaper=Daily Mail|date=7 July 2008}}</ref> | Lady Iris had one child by her first marriage: Lady Grania Mountbatten born as Grace Mountbatten on 31st July 1946 and a son by her second marriage: Robin Alexander Bryan born 20th Dece.1957 in New York.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pendlebury|first=Richard|title=The West Country travel agent's wife 612th in line for the throne and the other unlikely Britons in our list of royal succession|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1032652/The-West-Country-travel-agents-wife-612th-line-throne-unlikely-Britons-list-royal-succession.html|newspaper=Daily Mail|date=7 July 2008}}</ref> | ||
| Lady Iris died on 1 September 1982 at ], ], ], ]. The cause of death was a brain tumour. Her ashes were brought to the ] for interment in the ] Chapel at ]. | Lady Iris died on 1 September 1982 at ], ], ], ]. The cause of death was a brain tumour. Her ashes were brought to the ] for interment in the ] Chapel at ]. | ||
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| Lady Iris Mountbatten | |
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 Lady Iris Mountbatten in 1952 | |
| Born | Iris Victoria Beatrice Grace Mountbatten (1920-01-13)13 January 1920 London, England |
| Died | 1 September 1982(1982-09-01) (aged 62) Toronto, Ontario |
| Occupation(s) | Actress and model |
| Spouse(s) | Hamilton Joseph O'Malley (1941-1946; div.) Michael Neely Bryan (1957; div.) William Alexander Kemp (m. 1965) |
| Parent(s) | Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke Lady Irene Denison |
Lady Iris Victoria Beatrice Grace Mountbatten (13 January 1920 - 1 September 1982) was an English actress and model, and a member of the Battenberg/Mountbatten family.
Family and early life
Lady Iris Mountbatten was born in Kensington Palace, London on 13 January 1920, the only child of Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, eldest of three sons and one daughter of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg. Her Mother, the Marchioness of Carisbrooke GBE (1938), DJStJ, Order of Queen Maria Luisa, was born Lady Irene Francis Adza Denison (4 July 1890 – 16 July 1956) the only daughter of William Francis Henry Denison, 2nd Earl of Londesborough and Lady Grace Adelaide Fane (3 October 1860 – 13 June 1933), a daughter of Francis William Henry Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland.
Lord Carisbrooke's only sister Ena was Queen consort to King Alfonso XIII of Spain, thus making Lady Iris a first cousin of the Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, grandfather of the present King, Felipe VI of Spain. Lady Carisbrooke had two brothers of whom only one, Hugo William Cecil Denison, 4th and last Earl of Londesborough, was married. He and his wife had one child, Iris's only maternal first cousin, Lady Zinnia Rosemary Denison (25 November 1937 – 13 July 1997) a keen equestrian and Master of the Whaddon Chase Hunt 1982-84. 'The Lady Zinnia Judd Challenge Trophy' named in memory of her, is presented in the Hunter Championship for the 'Best Hunter in Show' at the Royal Windsor Horse Show.
On 29 November 1934, Iris was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousins, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark and Prince George, Duke of Kent. On 4 September 1935, at St. Oswald's Church, Blankney, Lincolnshire, she was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her uncle Lord Londesborough to Marigold Rosemary Joyce Lubbock (15 May 1903 – 15 May 1976). On 12 May 1937 at their coronation, Iris was one of the six train bearers to Queen Elizabeth, wife and consort of her cousin King George VI.
She attended a variety of royal and aristocratic events in her youth, being a well known and much photographed débutante. During World War II she worked as a nurse's aide, later moving to the United States. She became an actress and model, appearing as a hostess for a live TV children's programme Versatile Varieties (CBS Television, 1951). She also appeared endorsing Pond's Creams and Warrens Mint Cocktail Gum. A goddaughter was Sharon McCluskey (daughter of Ellen Lehman McCluskey of the Lehman family), later Sharon, Countess Sondes, second wife of Henry Milles-Lade, 5th Earl Sondes.
Marriages
Lady Iris was married three times. On 29 January 1941 Lady Iris received Royal License by King George VI to marry Captain (later Major) Hamilton Joseph Keyes O'Malley (after an engagement formally announced in The Times 18 January 1941). They married in St. Mary's CE Parish in Balcombe in Sussex. Captain O'Malley was born 18 October 1910, in Farnborough House (Army Barracks) in Aldershot, Farnborough, Hampshire. He was ancestor to Sir Samuel O'Malley Bt., and a member of the British Royal Family and was an officer in the Irish Guards and RAF as a Glidder, he was in the Battle of Arnhem and received the Victoria Cross for his service as a Glidder in the Battle of Arnhem and retired in 1949 as a Major, educated Downside and abroad. Commanding Officer Giles Vandeleur attended the wedding (as best-man and Army comrade of Hamilton O'Malley). He was eldest son of Lt Col Middleton Joseph O'Malley (later O'Malley-Keyes, son of Middleton Joseph Moore O'Malley, Justice of the Peace) and of Jane Byrnes O'Malley, formerly Malley of Ross House, Westport, of Newport, County Mayo in Connaught, Ireland, and of Castille Meretmont in Biarritz, France, wife of Middleton O'Malley aka Middleton O'Malley-Keyes (married 19 October 1909 in New York) only daughter of Businessman Edward Malley of New Haven, Connecticut. They divorced on 24 September 1946. Lady Iris formerly reverted to her maiden name of Mountbatten by Deed poll dated 7 January 1949.
On 5 May 1957, at Pound Ridge, New York, she married Michael Neely Bryan (9 August 1916, Byhalia, Mississippi - 20 August 1972, Glendale, California), son of James R. Bryan and Laura A. Neely, an American jazz musician. They divorced months later in 1957.
On 11 December 1965, she married to William Alexander Kemp (10 July 1921 – 12 December 1991), son of Clarence Arthur Kemp and Helen Janet Ballantyne, a Canadian actor and announcer.
Lady Iris had one child by her first marriage: Lady Grania Mountbatten born as Grace Mountbatten on 31st July 1946 and a son by her second marriage: Robin Alexander Bryan born 20th Dece.1957 in New York.
Lady Iris died on 1 September 1982 at Wellesley Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The cause of death was a brain tumour. Her ashes were brought to the Isle of Wight for interment in the Battenberg Chapel at St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham.
Ancestry
References
- Pendlebury, Richard (7 July 2008). "The West Country travel agent's wife 612th in line for the throne and the other unlikely Britons in our list of royal succession". Daily Mail.
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| *Not Mountbatten or Battenberg by birth. Adopted the surname Mountbatten from his maternal line on abandoning his patrilineal Greek and Danish princely titles. | ||