Edwina Mountbatten And Nehru

There are many stories as to why was nehru so close with the wife of mountbatten.

Edwina mountbatten and nehru. Prime minister nehru with edwina mountbatten in 1951 lady mountbatten was the last vicereine of india serving during the final months of the british raj and the first months of the post partition period february 1947 to june 1948 when louis mountbatten was the last viceroy of india and then after the partition of india and pakistan in june 1947 the governor general of india but not of pakistan. 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. Rajiv dixit of bharat jago fame did not even bat an eyelid when he spread a falsehood in describing him as a philanderer and that nehru and jinnah fought over edwina mountbatten.

It is believed that jawaharlal nehru wrote to edwina mountbatten continuously for 12 long years starting from 1948 and chose not to be discreet about it. 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. His marriage with kamala nehru faced severe crisis. She is none other than mountbattens wife well known as lady mountbatten or edwina.

Nehru at that time was 68 and edwina 10. 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. Not many would know that nehru did not have a very happy married life.