Hough bases his account on conversations with the Mirrors long-time editor Hugh Cudlipp, supplemented by the recollections of the scientist Solly Zuckerman and of Mountbatten ’ s valet, William Evans.

Mountbatten insisted that his friend, Zuckerman, be present ( Zuckerman says that he was urged to attend by Mountbatten ’ s son-in-law, Lord Brabourne, who worried King would lead Mountbatten astray ).

Lord Mountbatten ’ s immediate tasks included the repatriation of some 300, 000 Japanese, and freeing prisoners of war.

In a letter sent to Maharajah Hari Singh on 27 October 1947, the then Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten accepted the accession with a remark, “ it is my Government's wish that as soon as law and order have been restored in Kashmir and her soil cleared of the invader the question of the State's accession should be settled by a reference to the people .” Lord Mountbatten ’ s remark and the offer made by the Government of India to conduct a plebiscite or referendum to determine the future status of Kashmir led to a dispute between India and Pakistan regarding the legality of the accession of Kashmir to India.

In 1987 a lifeboat house was built aided by monies raised through the Belfast Newsletter ’ s Lord Louis Mountbatten Appeal Fund.

Destroyers HMS Jackal, Kashmir, Kipling, Kelly, Kelvin and Jersey were a part of Mountbatten ’ s fleet.

Between January and March, Ramey ’ s B – 29s assisted Mountbatten in South-East Asian theatre, supporting British and Indian ground forces in Burma by targeting rail and port facilities in Indochina, Thailand, and Burma.

He was responsible for the official royal programs under the auspices of the King George ’ s Jubilee Trust for the processions and services for King George V and Queen Mary ’ s Jubilee, 1935 ; The Coronation of their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 1937 ; The wedding of the Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten, RN, 1947 ; The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953 ; the wedding of the Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones, 1960 and the wedding of Princess Alexandra of Kent and Angus Ogilvy, 1963.

He was then selected as staff officer ( plans ) and fleet navigating officer in the Mediterranean where Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed him as special assistant to the newly created Chief of NATO ’ s Allied Staff.

On his promotion to captain, Mountbatten wrote of him: ' He was doing a job originally intended for captain ’ s rank and doing it brilliantly '.

Perhaps significantly, when King penned a strongly worded editorial against Wilson for the Daily Mirror two days after his abortive meeting with Mountbatten, the unanimous reaction of IPC's directors was to fire him with immediate effect from his position as Chairman.

Mountbatten was himself surprised by the ferocity of Sardar Patel's reaction to the issue.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

* 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

* August 26 – WWII: Lord Louis Mountbatten is named Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia.

* November 23 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma.

Further, this fact is confirmed and reiterated from the correspondence of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir dated October 26, 1947 with Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of India which states that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has a common boundary with the “ Soviet Republic ”, and the said statement also determines the fact that inter alia Gilgit and Kanjut ( which includes the Raskam, Hunza valley and Taghdumbash ) are integral parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had also made a similar statement that " Jammu and Kashmir's Northern

From this Leigh family, Pamela, Countess Mountbatten is descended.

It is now the largest parish church in the county and houses the tomb of Lord Mountbatten of Burma.

Mountbatten commented: " Each island is a veritable fortress, the assault against which cannot be contemplated unless the defences are neutralised, or reduced to a very considerable extent by prior action.

Earl Mountbatten of Burma is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The British Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten of Burma has not only been accused of rushing the process through, but also is alleged to have influenced the Radcliffe Line in India's favour.

Another viewpoint is that while Mountbatten may have been too hasty he had no real options left and achieved the best he could under difficult circumstances.

" Within the limited membership is a designated military division, with its own unique insignia ; though it has not been abolished, it is currently unpopulated, Lord Mountbatten of Burma having been the last person so honoured.

Another tale is that at the Quebec Conference of 1943 Mountbatten brought a block of pykrete along to demonstrate its potential to the entourage of admirals and generals who had come along with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

** The earldom of Mountbatten of Burma, which is currently held by a woman ;

Dedicated by the Earl Mountbatten on 12 April 1966, Speakers ' Corner in Regina, Saskatchewan is located on the north shore of Wascana Lake.

It is through the marriage of Edwina to the Earl of Mountbatten that the Earls of Shaftesbury became closely aligned with members of the royal family.

There is a walk around the Hilsea Lines by the Mountbatten Centre to the A27 Roundabout and Reverse

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina ( b. 1991 )

When Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Commander, South East Asia, visited Bangkok in late 1945, he recorded a tribute to Pridi in which he said that there had existed a unique situation wherein " the Supreme Allied Commander was exchanging vital military plans with the Head of a State technically at war with us ".

He recorded one of the last interviews with Lord Mountbatten before he was assassinated by the IRA in 1979, and even spent six weeks in Ford Open Prison to make a half hour documentary.

In view of implacable demands by the political leadership of both Hindu and Islamic communities in British India for a separate Hindu and a separate Muslim homeland, Mountbatten conceded the notion of two nations consisting of a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan ( which incorporated East Pakistan, now Bangladesh ).

In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), who planted a bomb in his yacht, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Louis of Battenberg and their four children Princess Alice of Battenberg, Louise, George and Louis. Lord Mountbatten was born as His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg, although his German styles and titles were dropped in 1917.

On the night 9 May / 10 May 1940, Kelly was torpedoed amidships by a German E-boat S 31 of the Dutch coast and Mountbatten subsequently commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla from the destroyer HMS Javelin.

From 1967 until 1978, Mountbatten became president of the United World Colleges Organisation, then represented by a single college: that of Atlantic College in South Wales.

" The biography of Labour MP Tom Driberg, written by Francis Wheen, claims that — like Driberg — Mountbatten had " a sexual preference for men ".

Lord Mountbatten in 1976, by Allan Warren

In 1969 Earl Mountbatten participated in a 12-part autobiographical television series Lord Mountbatten: A Man for the Century, also known as The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten, produced by Associated-Rediffusion and scripted by historian John Terraine.

Christ in Triumph over Darkness and Evil by Gabriel Loire ( 1982 ) at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa, in memory of Lord Mountbatten.

* August 27 – Lord Mountbatten of Burma and 3 others are assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

In 1984, Powell claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency had murdered Earl Mountbatten of Burma and that the deaths of the MPs Airey Neave and Robert Bradford were carried out by the USA in order to stop Neave's policy of integration for Northern Ireland.

Mountbatten and members of his family were killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

* The Rt Hon The Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( Lord Milford Haven's first cousin once-removed, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria through her daughter The Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine )