![]() As with many events that inspired The Crown's historical fiction, the real story is hard to nail down. According to Lownie: It is not entirely fair to say that Mountbatten refused the prince, as initially Edward was very keen to have his brothers, but Mountbatten kept himself ready. In The Mountbattens, though, Lownie lets readers draw their own conclusions from the limited-and contradictory-evidence available. Mountbatten and Edward became close in 1919 when Dickie acted as his honorary ADC on a royal tour. LONDON - The biggest gathering of royalty since the wedding of Prince Charles paid homage Wednesday to Earl Louis Mountbatten - the sailor-statesman. In Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, historian Alex von Tunzelmann cites a source from Buckingham Palace, who reportedly said, "It was not Solly Zuckerman who talked Mountbatten out of staging a coup and making himself president of Britain. Royalty remembers Uncle Dickie Mountbatten. "But he certainly explored it more than I think people realized."Īnd that tense meeting between Mountbatten and the Queen in The Crown? Some claim that may very well have taken place. "Whether he would have eventually agreed to be head of it, I think is very unlikely, because his loyalties were to the Queen," Lownie explained. ![]() The truth is likely somewhere between Mountbatten's complete innocence and The Crown's version of events. Naturally, this caused a stir, and Mountbatten did his best to quell suspicions surrounding these revelations.) (The cover-up would come later, in 1975, when Hugh Cudlipp included a meeting with Mountbatten and others on the matter in his memoirs. "Well, I think took it more seriously than he later claimed, and there was a bit of a cover-up, but I find it hard to think that he would have gone much further," Andrew Lownie, author of The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves, told Town & Country. The real story, however, is much less black-and-white. The Crown is set to lose a key character in season four as it tackles the death of Lord Mountbatten. The Crown's Mountbatten warms quickly to the proposal-particularly to the idea of installing himself in 10 Downing Street. Perhaps the most surprising-even above the Queen's curator's work as a Soviet spy, or Prince Charles's correspondence with the Duke of Windsor-was Lord Mountbatten's storyline in episode five, aptly titled "Coup."Īccording to the show, shortly after Mountbatten's forced retirement, he was approached by a group plotting to unseat Prime Minister Harold Wilson. ![]() ‘Richly entertaining… impressively well-researched’ Daily Mail, Biography of the YearThe Sunday Times bestselling biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, the aunt and uncle of Prince Philip.DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure behind his nephew Philip’s marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the Royal Family taking the Mountbatten name, he was Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War II and the last Viceroy of India.EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN: Once the richest woman in Britain and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, she emerged from World War II as a magnetic and talented humanitarian worker loved around the- world.From British high society to the South of France, from the battlefields of Burma to the Viceroy’s House, The Mountbattens is a rich and filmic story of a powerful partnership, revealing the truth behind a carefully curated legend.Was Mountbatten one of the outstanding leaders of his generation, or a man over-promoted because of his royal birth, high-level connections, film-star looks and ruthless self-promotion? What is the true story behind controversies such as the Dieppe Raid and Indian Partition, the love affair between Edwina and Nehru, and Mountbatten’s assassination in 1979?Based on over 100 interviews, research from dozens of archives and new information released under Freedom of Information requests, prize-winning historian Andrew Lownie sheds new light on- this remarkable couple.The Crown 's showrunner Peter Morgan can always be counted upon to dig up stories that the royals would rather keep quiet, and with the show's third season came another round of bombshells. ![]()
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