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Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (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.
Dec 10, 2020 · Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India, during the partition of British India into India and Pakistan. In this role, he was the chosen representative of King George VI, empowered to...
Nov 13, 2020 · The Provisional Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the August 27, 1979, murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten, 79, Earl of Burma, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, second cousin of...
The Mountbatten family are a branch of the German house of Battenberg. The Battenberg family was a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany.
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.
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).
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 ...
Lord Louis Mountbatten © Mountbatten was a British naval officer who oversaw the defeat of the Japanese offensive towards India during World War Two. He was appointed the last viceroy of...
May 20, 2015 · Lord Louis Mountbatten was murdered on 27 August 1979 when the IRA detonated a bomb on his family's fishing boat in the harbour of Mullaghmore, north west Ireland.
Nov 15, 2020 · The episode recreates the August 1979 day on which Lord Mountbatten took a boat out lobster-potting and tuna fishing with his daughter, son-in-law and two twin grandsons, as well as several...
