![]() ![]() 'That alone makes him unusual in the royal family,' says Lownie. He really was the most brilliant self-publicist.'Īs this documentary highlights, Mountbatten indeed was one of the most impressive men of his generation, a bona fide military leader who rose to the highest position in the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord, as his father had done before him. 'But it told the story he wanted to tell. 'A lot of it was a work of fiction,' says Lownie. Not least because great swathes of it simply weren't true. ![]() Now, putting it, or anything like it, on the air would unthinkable. Lord and Lady Mountbatten are pictured arriving in New York in 1922 This documentary highlights, Mountbatten indeed was one of the most impressive men of his generation, a bona fide military leader who rose to the highest position in the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord, as his father had done before him. Whatever, the documentary, with endless footage of Mountbatten astride a horse, was an audacious piece of publicity. But then she was a pushy woman herself!'. The joke was that he had the sharpest elbows on the royal balcony. He lost that battle).Īndrew Lownie doesn't agree that the Queen Mother hated him, though. Yes, the Queen Mother had always issues with Mountbatten (when the Queen married Prince Philip, Mountbatten pushed for the House of Windsor to become the House of Mountbatten. All the senior royals turned out for a special preview screening – The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, The Queen Mother. It ran over 12 episodes, with an astonishing 38million viewers tuning in. It was – like the man himself – breathtakingly ambitious. He actually made his own documentary series about his life. This is not how he would have liked to be remembered, either. The young Prince Charles playing with his great uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, after landing on the coast of Malta, April 27th 1954 They had a real friendship and sense of fun. It wasn't a sham marriage, though, quite the opposite. Before they went to India, they were due to divorce but neither of them would have wanted to give up the opportunity of him becoming Viceroy.' 'He offered her one if she wanted to marry Bunny Phillips (a Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, with whom she was besotted), but then he went off and married one of her best friends. The couple did come close to divorce several times. ![]() It wasn't just public embarrassment that they were risking, either. Her relationship with Nehru could have opened them up to huge political questions. They lived on the edge of being caught the whole time.' In the documents, the couple are described as 'persons of extremely low morals' and many have suggested both were bisexual - a huge taboo at the time.Įdward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) (second left) on board ship prior to his departure for a tour of Australia with his two brothers Henry, Duke of Gloucester (left) and George, Duke of York (second right) and Louis Mountbatten (right) We do know that FBI documents from the 1940s revealed shocking claims that Mountbatten was secretly 'a homosexual with a perversion for young boys.' Their marriage involved bed-hopping and threesomes. He later admitted 'Edwina and I spent all our married life getting into other people's beds.'Īnd how. She went on to have what can only be described as a harem of lovers, including polo players, aristocrats and magnates.Īlthough he was devastated by the first infidelities, Dickie coped by taking his own lovers. Edwina Mountbatten with Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955 (left) and Louis Mountbatten who later became a British naval commander and statesman, on board the ship 'Renown' during a world cruise with Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) in 1919Īs this documentary series shows, however, it was Edwina who started to cheat first. ![]() The new documentary reveals the inside detail on how the couple actually conducted their open marriage. ![]()
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