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Aug 22, 2019 · The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves: The Sunday Times Bestseller. Kindle Edition. by Andrew Lownie (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.2 1,884 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. 'Richly entertaining... impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the Year.
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Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [1] [2] [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
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Sep 7, 2021 · As a general book on the Mountbattens I can recommend Alex von Tunzelmann: Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire. As a book that deals specifically with Partition in the West I can recommend Incomplete Partition: The Genesis of the Kashmir Dispute 1947-1948 by Alastair Lamb.
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Aug 22, 2019 · June 25, 2020. This is an interesting and well-researched biography of Lord Louis Mountbatten (as he came to be known) and his wife, Edwina. As the title of the book suggests, it focuses on their turbulent marriage and the many extra-marital flings that first Edwina, and then Louis (known as ‘Dickie’) had.
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Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (24 May 1854 – 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British royal family . Although born in Austria, and brought up in Italy and Germany, Louis enrolled in the British Royal Navy at ...
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent ...
