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3 unusual facts about Carisbrooke


Irene Mountbatten, Marchioness of Carisbrooke

From the day of her marriage, her married name became Mountbatten, and she was styled as the Marchioness of Carisbrooke.

She married Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, son of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, on 19 July 1917 at St. James's Palace, Chapel Royal, St. James's, London.

Ventnor City, New Jersey

The first meeting was held on April 20, 1903, in the Carisbrooke Inn, which was located behind the present City Hall, on Atlantic Avenue between Cambridge and Sacramento Avenues; Carisbrooke is also a place name taken from the Isle of Wight.


Archibald Johnston

He continued to oppose concessions to Charles, and strongly disapproved of the Engagement concluded in 1648 by the government of the Duke of Hamilton with Charles at Carisbrooke, which, while securing little for Presbyterianism, committed the Scots to hostilities with the English Parliament and the New Model Army.


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