Lucius family
The following comes from the German homepage for the Lucius family. The royal line is confirmed with other sources of the royal genealogy.
Maud Lucius' great great great grandfather, Pfarrer (Protestant priest) Heinrich Wilhelm Schweppenh�user, had two daughters. One married another priest who moved to South Carolina, and the other married Friedrich Karl Hauke, whose line leads directly to the British Mountbattens and the Spanish Bourbons.
Pfarrer Heinrich Wilhelm Schweppenh�user
         m. Charlotte Philippine Westermann
daughter: born 21 May 1745
     Friederike Philippine Elisabeth            Schweppenh�user, m.
Pfarrer Friedrich Samuel Lucius

son:
    John Jacob Lucius

son: born in Kershaw Co., South Carolina
    Philip Jacob Lucius

son:
    Philip Jacob Lucius, Jr.

daughter:
    Maud A. Lucius, m. James M. Taylor
       Greene County, Alabama

son:
     William C. Taylor, Sr., m.
Sallie Mae Prewitt, Memphis, Tennessee

son:
     William C. Taylor, Jr., m.Alma Carter

daughter:
     Cerez Taylor, m. Steven Morris

son:
     Scott Taylor Morris
daughter: born 29 Nov. 1751
    Marie Salome Schweppenh�user, m.
Friedrich Karl Hauke

son:
    Count Hans Moritz von Hauke, m.
Sophie LaFontaine

daughter:
     Julia Theresa Salomea von Hauke, m.
Alexander Ludwig von Hessen **

son:
    Louis Alexander von Battenberg, m.
Victoria Elisabeth von Hessen

daughter:
     Alice von Battenberg, m.
Andrew von Schleswig-Holstein

son:
     Philip Mountbatten, m.
Elizabeth II Windsor, Queen of England

son:
     Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of Wales
Pfarrer Lucius came to South Carolina before the Revolution as a missionary. The Church of England's Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts recruited him to minister to a settlement of Germans who had come from near his home in Germany,
die Pfalz (Palatinate).

Following is his record from the SPG:
Ordained: deacon 1 November 1769 and priest 4 November 1769, both by the
Bishop of London
Appointed by the SPG: 21 October 1769
Served: Cuffee Town, [Greenwood County] South Carolina, 1770-1782 or 1783. Missionary to the Palatines
Died: 30 October 1784
**other son of Julia von Hauke:
     Heinrich Moritz von Battenberg, m
Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodora Wettin

daughter:
     Victoria Eugenie von Battenberg, m.
Alfonso XIII de Bourbon, King of Spain

son:
     Juan de Bourbon, m.
Maria de la Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily

son:
     Juan Carlos de Bourbon, King of Spain
    
This account appears in Two Hundred Years of the SPG by CF Pascoe:
"in 1769 a special call was made on behalf of "the Protestant Palatines in South Carolina". Having emigrated from Europe, they were "greatly distressed for want of a minister", there being none to be met with at a less distance than 50 or 70 miles; .... referred their [the Palatines] petition to the Society [SPG], with the result that the Rev SF Lucius was sent out to minister to them. Arriving at Coffee Town in 1770, he officiated on Easter Day to "people very eager to hear the Word". For want of a minister among them "the children were grown up like savages". In six months he baptised 40 children and 30 adults. The people built two churches and Mr Lucius continued among them as the Society's Missionary until the end of the American Revolution. During the war he was reduced to "the deepest distress" by being cut off from communication with the Society and unable to receive his salary for seven years (1776-1783). After the evacuation of Charleston, where he had taken refuge, he attempted to go to "his old residence at Coffee Town, but destitute as he was .... encumbered with a wife  and seven children ... he was soon unable to proceed ....". He returned to Charleston, and in March 1783 proceeded to Congarees, "where a great number of the Palatines were settled."
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