Edwina Mountbatten And Nehru Relation

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Edwina mountbatten and nehru relation. Nehrus niece nayantara sahgal had once said that the marriage with nehru and kamala nehru was a grievous mistake for two profoundly different people. Pamela later said her father condoned the relationship. Lady mountbatten and the new prime minister jawaharlal nehru became romantic with each other. Whether the romance was ever consummated is not known however their mutual fondness was evident and caused widespread speculation.

Nehru and edwina mountbatten wrote to each other till the day edwina died in 1960 and a foregrounding of those letters would only do harm. There edwina was to find her most enduring love affair with indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru who at 58 was ten years her senior. In an article that called mountbatten man eater dailymailcouk recounted how mountbatten fell in love with nehru and how her promiscuity took a toll on her children. Depending on who you are read or watch the relationship between nehru and edwina is even seen differently by people on either side of international borders.

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. Life as a mountbatten was first published in 2012 in the united kingdom and was recently brought to india as a paperback. The affair between lord mountbattens wife edwina and jawaharlal nehru first prime minister of independent india is no secret. This is how she went on to meet nehru and even after they returned to england a year later she would.

On the other hand edwinaas marriage with dickey mountbatten had also resulted in crisis and edwina had lot of pre and post marriage affairs.