Andrew Lownie tells their story in this vivid, meticulously researched dual biography published to mark the 40th anniversary of Lord Mountbatten’s assassination.

From Churchill and Montgomery to Roosevelt and Eisenhower the Royal Family, including the Duke of Windsor, George VI, the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles to Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Salvador Dali, George Gershwin, Grace Kelly and Merle Oberon. Frfattare: Andrew Lownie Format: Pocket/Paperback ISBN: 9781788702980 Sprk: Engelska Antal sidor: 496. One of the most colourful couples of the twentieth century, Louis and Edwina Mountbatten led lives packed with incident and associated with many of the pivotal figures of the day. Once the richest woman in Britain and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, Edwina Mountbatten emerged from World War Two as a magnetic and talented charity worker loved around the world.įrom the prize-winning and best-selling historian Andrew Lownie comes a nuanced portrayal of two very unusual people and their complex marriage to mark the 40th anniversary of Lord Mountbatten's assassination by the IRA.įrom British high society and the South of France to the battlefields of Burma and the Viceroy's House, this is a rich and filmic story whose characters include all the key figures of the Second World War. 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.

A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the royal family taking the Mountbatten name, Dickie Mountbatten's career included being Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War Two and the last Viceroy of India. Author and historian Andrew Lownie introduces his joint biography of the lives of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife Edwina. The assassination of Prince Charles’s great-uncle and confidant, Lord Mountbatten, at the hands of the IRA in 1979, rocked the royal family. But Andrew Lownie, who has written a biography of Mountbatten, argued at a tribunal hearing this week that 120 redacted references in the diaries should be made public.

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