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Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; [n 1] 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, Royal Navy officer and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg ...
As Chief of the Defence Staff, Mountbatten served as head of the British Armed Forces from 1959 to 1965, [7] having previously headed the Royal Navy as the First Sea Lord. [8] Sinn Féin vice-president Gerry Adams said that Mountbatten was a military target in a war situation.
On 1 November 1947, Louis Mountbatten left for Pakistan to begin talks between the Governors-General of India and Pakistan over the issue of Kashmir. [6] The talks lasted for three-and-a-half hours, where Mountbatten offered to Jinnah that India would hold a plebiscite in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, provided that Pakistan withdrew its military support for the Azad Kashmir forces and their ...
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 ...
Ellingworth was born in London, the fifth of eight children of the 7th Baron Brabourne and the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma. She is the granddaughter of Admiral of the Fleet the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and a second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II. She has five brothers ...
15 April - On the Bengali new year's day, Lord Mountbatten attempts his last ditch effort to stop the Partition of Bengal & conduct the partition of Muslim-majority Kashmir. Sir Radcliffe lends support to Lord Mountbatten as the proposal stands tied 2-2. 1 May - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee writes to Lord Mountbatten & Sir Radcliffe demanding a ...
Mountbatten by Allan Warren in 1976. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, received numerous titles, decorations and honorary appointments during his time as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, in the Second World War, the last Viceroy and Governor-General of India, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, Chief of the Defence Staff, and owing to his close ...
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.