His full name was Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, though he was known as Prince Louis of Battenberg for much of his early life. Lord Mountbatten was born on June 25, 1900. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | STEVE PARSONS/AFP via Getty Images Who was Lord Mountbatten? Read on below to learn about who Lord Mountbatten was in real life and his relationship to the other royals. On the show, Lord Mountbatten is called “Uncle Dickie” by both Prince Philip and his son, Prince Charles, so many viewers might not understand how exactly he is related to the members of the royal family. Especially to Charles.īitter and twisted? Me? Not at all.Anyone who watches Netflix’s The Crown might know of Lord Mountbatten, a relative of Prince Philip and someone who has a close relationship with the royal family as a whole. Security risk, managed to achieve the kind of promotion and jobs he Understand was how Mountbatten, a known homosexual, and therefore a Richard Deacon quotes a CIA source as saying 'What we could never Soviet sympathiser during the Cold War, while the 'spy writer' Was active in the plot to overthrow Harold Wilson's government inĮven more unnerving is the American claim that Mountbatten was a Hess' flight to Britain (an attempted 'peace deal'), but Other sources suggest that not only was he was involved in Partition of India while Viceroy (by royal appointment) caused up to a But the Canadian press baron Lord Beaverbrook calledĪccording to the Tory grandee Rab Butler, his mishandling of the 'His negligence and incompetence,' wrote the historianĪndrew Roberts, 'resulted in many unnecessary deaths.'Īmong them the 3,300, mostly Canadians, during the disastrousĭieppe raid over which he was in overall command. Post, Churchill growled: 'What could you hope to achieve except toīe sunk in a bigger and more expensive ship this time?'Įarlier he had proclaimed victory over two U-Boats, neither of When he asked to stay at sea rather than take a transfer to a shore Seamanship (sorry Maggie) by turning his ships broadside to the enemy, 'It is now the House of Mountbatten,' he crowed afterĪs captain of HMS Kelly, immortalised in buddy Noel Coward'sįilm In Which We Serve, he was a disaster. Second cousin - and he, personally, groomed Philip into becoming royal Victoria was great-grandmama, Prince Philip his nephew, the Queen his He owed his appointments, promotions far above his abilityĪccording to fellow service chiefs, to his royal connections. Maybe it should have been Earl Mountebank. Incompetent, disastrous Viceroy of India, mediocre service chief, Not me - and was described by one writer as a 'charlatan, poseur, Truth? Mountbatten was a congenital liar - Anthony Eden said that, Nor that 'the truth in his hands was converted from what it Hear this as the royals commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death ofĪnd no mention in the eulogy (mostly scripted by himself) of whatĮven his official biographer called his 'monstrous vanity. Wrong on both countsĪccording to the evidence revealed since. Seaman,' said Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher. 'He was one of our greatest commanders and a great Set out in his boat to collect lobster pots. His 14-year-old grandson and a local boy died with him as they Provisional IRA (acting for the CIA or the KGB, according to some The man born Prince Louis Francis of Battenburg, better known to us allĪs Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was assassinated in Ireland by the shall we sa, a quarter of a century later? Because you'll feel pretty stupid when theįacts emerge in. Oleaginous eulogies you hear when the (alleged) great and good shuffle Retrieved from Īnd the moral of this story is: do not for a moment believe the APA style: ANOTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTBATTEN STORY.ANOTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTBATTEN STORY." Retrieved from MLA style: "ANOTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTBATTEN STORY." The Free Library.
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