If John Fisher died and Louis of Battenberg remained First Sea Lord, Battenberg would offer competent professional management with support for John Jellicoe and David Beatty. His strengths lay in administration rather than radical innovation, and he could manage the navy effectively without the struggle over his position. Winston Churchill would probably still try to remove him because their working styles differed. Battenberg's royal connections would make that politically difficult: Churchill deferred to the royal family, whereas Fisher had the naval standing to challenge Battenberg's position.
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If Louis of Battenberg remained First Sea Lord
Louis of Battenberg's professionalism and royal connections would complicate Churchill's efforts to remove him if Fisher were absent.