George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven

George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven ( * June 6, 1961 in London ) is a British entrepreneur, peer and polo player with a handicap of 1

He came from an old polo dynasty, which has been associated since 1877 with the sport of polo. He comes from the Battenberg - Mountbatten family, from which also comes Prince Philip. At the age of 10 he lost his father why he did not grow up in the Polo area. Through his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten, he came finally to the sport of polo. Befitting he graduated in the Guards Polo Club, the first training as a player, but shortly after went to Polo Academy by Terry Hanlon at Cowdray Park in West Sussex.

In Milland, he had the most impressive Polo Barn England, the Trippetts farm build. The plant has a size of 400 hectares is shielded by walls and hedges of the public and offers in high season about half a dozen high-goal teams, 350 polo ponies and 70 grooms place. The hotel also features polo fields, pastures, training center, tennis courts and swimming pools.

In 2010 he was the captain of the team Julius Baer at the St. Moritz Polo World Cup on Snow. A year before he had been player of this team, which emerged as the tournament winner in 2009.

In 2000, he founded uSwitch, a website that had specialized in the comparison of bids. In March 2006, he sold the site for about 210 million pounds to the U.S. company EW Scripps.

Private

Mountbatten was married from 1989 to 1996 and has two children. He stands at 484 instead of the British throne because he is descended from Queen Victoria.

About his paternal grandmother, who is of Russian nobility, he is descended from the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, Abraham Petrovich Hannibal, an African -General of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great.