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Prime Minister Nehru with Lady Mountbatten in 1951. Edwina Mountbatten was the last vicereine of India, serving during the final months of the British Raj and the first months of the post-Partition period (February 1947 to June 1948) when Louis Mountbatten was the last viceroy of India and then, after the partition of India and Pakistan in June ...
Sometime in the 1930s, Phillips became involved with Edwina, Lady Louis Mountbatten. [2] Bunnie spent a great deal of time with Edwina and befriended her two daughters, Patricia and Pamela. Lord Louis considered divorcing Edwina, but due to his personal admiration for Phillips and his own affair with Yola Letellier, did not proceed. [2] [3]
Mountbatten admitted: "Edwina and I spent all our married lives getting into other people's beds." [119] He maintained an affair for several years with Yola Letellier, [120] the wife of Henri Letellier, publisher of Le Journal and mayor of Deauville (1925–28). [121] Yola Letellier's life story was the inspiration for Colette's novel Gigi. [120]
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is to give the Get Back treatment to the 1947 partition of India with a colorized documentary telling the story of the bitter personal rivalry between Indian Prime Minister ...
Mountbatten claimed this was his first extra-marital affair. Yola was to be his principal mistress until his death in 1979. [13] [17] Mountbatten, according to one story, installed a pull-out double bed in his 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II to entertain Yola. [14] Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, maintained an unusual family relationship ...
Hutch is rumoured to have had a lengthy affair with Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. [9] The rumour scandalised the British upper classes, becoming the subject of tabloid news, and an embarrassment to Mountbatten's royal in-laws. The Mountbattens sued the tabloids for libel.
The Crown season 3 shows Lord Mountbatten (or "Uncle Dickie") plan a coup to unseat Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Here's the true story behind the TV show. Lord Mountbatten Did Get Asked to Lead a ...
Leonora was the daughter of Penelope Knatchbull, a.k.a. the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, according to The Independent. She had an older brother, Nicholas, and sister, Alexandra. She had an older ...