Lord Mountbatten Queen Elizabeth
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Lord mountbatten queen elizabeth. On lord mountbattens advice the duchess had already returned the dukes garter robes uniforms orders and decorations to the queen. 0900 mon nov 16 2020. Lord mountbatten 1900 1979 and lady mountbatten 1901 1960 as viceroy and vicereine of india.
Queen elizabeth ii once shook hands with the ira chief rumoured to be responsible for lord mountbattens assassination. Queen elizabeth ii at lord mountbattens funeral in 1979. Philips mother princess alice of battenberg was louis sister.
Admiral of the fleet louis francis albert victor nicholas mountbatten 1st earl mountbatten of burma born prince louis of battenberg. His fishing boat named shadow. Louis mountbatten 1st earl mountbatten of burma was born prince louis of battenberg on 25 june 1900 in windsor.
Lord mountbatten was the uncle of the queens husband prince philip. I had a huge box full of diamond insignias from the. On august 29 1979 louis mountbatten earl of burma also known as lord mountbatten and in the crown diminutively as uncle dickie died off the coast of ireland in an ira bomb blastthe.
In august of 1979 lord mountbatten was killed at age 79 in a terrorist attack by the irish republican army. In 1952 on the accession of his wife as queen elizabeth ii there was some dispute regarding the dynasty to which descendants of elizabeth and phillip would belong. Queen elizabeth ii second right with princess anne left earl mountbatten second left and the duke of edinburgh right on the balcony of buckingham palace during her silver jubilee.
By abbie llewelyn published. Mountbatten held many prominent titles in the british aristocracy.