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Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.
Nov 12, 2020 · Lord Mountbatten (better known as Uncle Dickie) is a major force in season 4 of The Crown, persuading Prince Charles to get married. The royal with 10 names, two daughters, and an open marriage, is related to both Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II .
Nov 13, 2020 · The gruesome 1979 IRA assassination of a beloved British royal—which took place the same day as a deadly coordinated attack on British troops—led to outrage, heartbreak and a...
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a relative of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Dec 10, 2020 · He was known to the royal family as “Dickie”. The Duke of Cambridge named his son, Louis, after Lord Mountbatten. When he was 22, Mountbatten married Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, an heiress...
Jun 22, 2024 · Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten was a British statesman, naval leader, and the last viceroy of India. He had an international royal-family background; his career involved extensive naval commands, the diplomatic negotiation of independence for India and Pakistan, and the highest military.
Aug 27, 2021 · 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…. Published ...
Sep 29, 2019 · Dickie Mountbatten’s assassination by the IRA, in August 1979, has been well-documented, but I learned facts today of which I was previously unaware. The Mountbatten family had been holidaying in County Sligo since the 1960s and had faced down many assassination attempts.
Nov 1, 2022 · Prince Philip's close relative Lord Mountbatten (aka Uncle Dickie) serves as a mentor to Prince Charles in The Crown, but what was he like in real life?
Nov 15, 2020 · The death of Lord Mountbatten, "Uncle Dickie," in the tragic Shadow V explosion appears in The Crown. Here's the true story of the bombing.
