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Season 4 of Netflix’s The Crown, which follows the royal family from 1977 to 1990, opens with the assassination of Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten (The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, or, Lord Mountbatten), Queen Elizabeth's cousin, who was killed by an IRA-planted bomb on his fishing boat in 1979. Cinematically, the event makes obvious the threats immediately facing the royal family this season—which are both political and internal and also violently external. In reality, and despite some The 1979 assassination followed years of escalating violence on the part of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), whose acts of violence, earlier contained in Belfast and mostly directed at English soldiers, began increasingly to target English citizens across the border. Mountbatten was 79 at the time of his death. (He is played in The Crown by Game of Thrones actor Charles Dance.) Here’s what happened to Lord Mountbatten and why. Lord Mountbattens’ coffin, London, August 28, 1979. Evening Standard Who killed Lord Mountbatten? Each summer, Lord Mountbatten would leave his home outside London and vacation to the Irish coast where he would fish. An Irish local New York Times at the time, “Everyone knew that was his routine and everyone knew where the boat was moored out there.” The night before Lord Mountbatten’s murder, IRA bomb expert Thomas McMahon left a radio-controlled explosive on Mountbatten's boat. The next day, the bomb detonated. A witness Lord Mountbatten in...

HE was a dashing prince and she was hailed as ‘the most beautiful woman in England’, so when Louis and Edwina Mountbatten walked down the aisle, in 1922, it was the society wedding of the decade. But behind closed doors, their 38-year marriage was far from perfect – with Lord Mountbatten once admitting: “Edwina and I spent all our married lives getting into other people’s beds.” 22 Gillian Anderson as Edwina and Tanveer Ghani as Nehru in The Viceroy's House Credit: Alamy A stunning but highly-strung socialite, Edwina - who was named the sixth best dressed woman in the world at the time - had at least 18 lovers including Indian Prime Minister Nehru and singer Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson, who she once gifted a jewel-encrusted penis sheath. She was said to be sexually obsessed, once being 'thrusted' across a banquet table during a romp with one lover. Lord Mountbatten - who Prince Louis is widely-believed to be named after - was ‘devastated’ by her infidelity in the early days of their marriage. But realising he had little choice in the matter, he began taking lovers of his own, too. 22 Louis Mountbatten with the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, in 1919 Credit: Getty - Contributor Naming breasts Mutt and Jeff The great-grandson of Queen Victoria, Mountbatten – the uncle of Prince Philip – was born in 1900 at Frogmore House, Windsor as Prince Louis of Battenberg, a title he lost when he and other royals dropped Germanic names during World War I. By the time he met 20-year-old...

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On August 27, 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten is killed when Shadow V. Mountbatten, a war hero, elder statesman, and second cousin of The assassination of Mountbatten was the first blow struck against the British royal family by the IRA during its long terrorist campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite it with the Republic of Ireland to the south. The attack hardened the hearts of many Brits against the IRA and convinced READ MORE: Louis Mountbatten, the son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria I, entered the Royal Navy in 1913, when he was in his early teens. He saw service during Kelly, was sunk off Crete early in the war. In 1941, he commanded an aircraft carrier, and in 1942 he was named chief of combined operations. From this position, he was appointed supreme Allied commander for Southeast Asia in 1943 and successfully conducted the campaign against Japan that led to the recapture of Burma. In 1947, he was appointed the last viceroy of India, and he conducted the negotiations that led to independence for India and Pakistan later that year. He held various high naval posts in the 1950s and served as chief of the United Kingdom Defense Staff and chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Meanwhile, he was made Viscount Mountbatten of Burma and a first earl. He was the uncle of Philip Mountbatten and introduced Philip to the future Queen Elizabeth. He later encouraged the marriage of the two distant cousins and became ...

The assassination of Prince Charles’s great-uncle and confidant, Lord Mountbatten, at the hands of the IRA in 1979, rocked the royal family. Andrew Lownie explains how the events unfolded and considers why Mountbatten – affectionately named ‘Dickie’ – was murdered, and whether the IRA was really behind the assassination… Monday 27 August 1979, a Bank Holiday, was a gloriously sunny day. After days of rain, Dickie Mountbatten and some of his family, enjoying their annual August holiday at his holiday home, Classiebawn Castle near the village of Cliffoney, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland, had decided at breakfast to go out in their 29-foot fishing boat, Shadow V, moored a mile away at Mullaghmore Harbour, to lift the lobster pots they had set the previous day. At 11.30am, Mountbatten boarded Shadow V along with his daughter Patricia and her film-producer husband, John; John’s mother, Doreen Knatchbull, Lady Brabourne; and Patricia’s 14-year-old twins, Nicholas and Timothy, together with 15-year-old Paul Maxwell (who holidayed in the village and helped with the boat). With two Garda detectives following the progress of the boat through binoculars from the shore, the boat cleared the harbour wall and headed for the open bay. Mountbatten, standing tall at the wheel, opened the throttle to gain speed. Also watching the progress of the boat through binoculars were another two pairs of eyes – belonging to members of the Provisional Dickie Mountbatten and some of his famil...

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The fifth episode of season three of The Crown sees royal family member Lord Mountbatten approached to lead a coup against Harold Wilson’s struggling Labour government. How much of the drama is true? Andrew Lownie, author of a new book on the Mountbattens, explores the truth of the suggested coup attempt… Although its claim that Mountbatten was motivated by pique at being sacked as chief of the defence staff is incorrect – Mountbatten retired naturally in 1965 at the age of 65 – there were certainly plans for such a coup. Indeed, if The Crown had drawn on my recent book The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves, which looks at the private correspondence of those involved in the coup, they might have stressed a greater role for Mountbatten. That’s because it’s clear he was far more involved than he or other collaborators publicly stated. Queen Elizabeth II and Lord Louis Mountbatten, uncle of her husband, Prince Philip. (Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images) For months during 1968, media tycoon and Bank of England director Cecil King publicly advocated the formation of a coalition government. At the end of April, King approached Mountbatten to sound him out about possibly becoming part of it. Mountbatten agreed that “talent and administrative ability which does not exist in Parliament must be harnessed. Perhaps there should be something like the Emergency Committee I ran in India”. • Why was Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great-uncle, assassinated? He agreed...

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