I wouldn’t really say that she “married up in the proper sense”, there are and were lots of aristocrats who are or were related to the BRF and of a higher status than Louis Mountbatten. But in a way Louis can be regarded as close enough to marrying a “senior member” of the BRF especially with all his scheming and machinations.
His former princely status even back then didn’t give him much of anything and he was given a hard time being a foreign “prince” and losing his title made it easy for him to be less bothered in the navy. Edwina’s financier grandfather was very close friend of King Edward VII , so I don’t think she was necessarily impressed with Louis being in the circle of the royals even if he was a relation and her paternal family, the Ashley-Coopers were a politically prominent aristocratic family.
Definitely Edwina’s wealth helped a lot
I’m sure he could have asked for a writ in the letters patent, it has happened with some peerages like the Earl of Wilton, The Clinton Barony and a few others.
Pardon me? I don’t want to come off ignorant, but which particular part of horrible parts of Irish history are you referring to (I am aware there has been difficult and horrendous parts of the history, but I want you to specify). Does it have something to do with what I typed?
I don’t exactly get what your saying, can you kindly more clear because I don’t get what you’re saying?
I don’t think she would have found it hard to find a high ranking spouse because some peers had married Jewish women like the Marquess of Cholmondely who married Sybil Sassoon de Rothschild, a wealthy heiress from two of the most prominent Jewish banking families. She could easily have found an illustrious but impoverished peer, but probably loved Dickie because he was a supportive and understanding person to her or maybe she had issues finding a more important peer than Dickie die to her background, I’m not sure unless there is a book that addresses her love life prior to marrying Dickie. But her childhood was quite problematic due to her fathers young death and her horrible stepmother.
I’m not sure, it depends on the circumstances because for example the Clinton Barony took an 8 year legal battle for the title to be assumed.
I think there was a special remainder for the daughters to inherit. The Mount-Temple Barony had no special reminder for the Barony nor did Wilifred Ashley ask for a writ or special remainder. It doesn’t really matter badly because Edwina’s father was a second son of an Earl, unlikely to inherit much from his family so the Barony would not have given much of anything.
It is interesting that The Star referred to the wedding as The Wedding of the Century. The century was only twenty-two years old.
