Grania has changed her birth date to July 31, 1946, which makes her four years older than she really is.
I have obtained an official copy of her birth registration in Cannes. Grania Mary O'Malley was born on July 31, 1950, at 10 pm in Cannes La Bocca, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
Birth registrations are an official act. There are no birth registrations for Mountbatten or O'Malley in Cannes for July 31, 1946.
Grania has claimed that she is not related to the O'Malley-Keyes and that she is Hamilton's only child. She claims Charles, Patrick, Dermot, and Owen are Sadie's children, but not Hamilton's.
However, one of Grania's three sons, Malachi uses the surname O'Malley-Keyes. On September 5, 2009, Grania attended the wedding of her nephew, Daniel O'Malley-Keyes. Daniel has also confirmed that Grania is his aunt and the daughter of Hamilton and Sadie.
Here is the death notice for her brother, Patrick Peter O'Malley-Keyes, which was published in Bournemouth Echo.
O'MALLEY-KEYES PATRICK PETER Suddenly on 7th February 2005 in London. Son of Major Hamilton O'Malley-Keyes, dear brother of Dermot, Owen, Grania and Charles. Requiem Mass at the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Douglas Road, Southbourne, on Tuesday 22nd February at 2.00 pm followed by interment in the Boscombe Cemetery at 3.00 pm. All flowers and enquiries to Harry Tomes Ltd F.D., 'Barham House', 31/33 Tower Road, Boscombe. Tel B'mouth (01202) 394340 12:00am Saturday 19th February 2005.
This listing would have been placed by a close family member. "Dear brother of Dermot, Owen, GRANIA and Charles."
A Roman Catholic service. Grania O'Malley-Keyes attended a Roman Catholic school, Lewiston, in Sherbourne, Dorset. She graduated in 1968, which would have made her 18, and not 22 years old. In other words, she was born in 1950, and not 1946.
Birth registrations are irrefutable and incontrovertible.
Lady Iris Mountbatten's marriage to Hamilton O'Malley was childless. It is entirely possible that Lady Iris used O'Malley as a cover for her romance with another man. This fact was told to me by two different members of Hamilton's family.
Moreover, Lady Iris was already in the United States in July 1946.
Grania O'Malley (later O'Malley-Keyes) changed her name by deed poll to Mountbatten-Carisbrooke and then changed it again by deed poll to Mountbatten.
Hamilton O'Malley was married three times. His first two marriages to Lady Iris Mountbatten and Eleanor de Pentheny O'Kelly ended in divorce. Eleanor O'Malley-Keyes died in Dorset in 2001. In 1970, Hamilton married for the third time in 1970 to Betty Saunders. When Hamilton died in 1989, he was survived by his wife, and his five children by his second wife.
Yes, Sorry to say Grania is indeed "unwell". She is my cousin and not related in anyway to the Mountbatten Family to whom my Uncle Hamilton (Grania's father) had been related to only through his five year marriage to lady Iris Mountbatten. There were indeed no offspring from that union.
ReplyDeleteLady Irish Mountbatten had but one child and that was from her second marriage to an American Jazz Guitarist.
I knew Grania O`Malley-Keyes in 1970s Boscombe, and she told me her mother had been Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty. At this time, 1976, Grania had one small son, whom she claimed had been conceived in the glow of the sun setting over the Red Sea. To view this phenomenon, I would have thought you`d need to be either in Saudi Arabia, or on a vessel far out on the Red Sea. This being so, I was puzzled by the knowledge that she was, apparently, living in Eritrea at the time !! Does anyone recall the name of this son, who would, by now, be about 38 years of age ??
ReplyDeleteone of Grania's sons is named Eritrea. He was born in 1974. She has 2 other sons Joshua and Malachi
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