Lord Mountbatten Coup

The fifth episode of series three of the crown sees royal family member lord mountbatten approached to lead a coup against harold wilsons struggling labour government. I wouldnt say it was a coup but he was concerned about the way the country was going and he put forward suggestions so he was trying to be as helpful as possible lord mountbatten in 1966. Against that backdrop mountbatten who had always harbored political ambitions was approached to act as a figurehead in a national argument by two newspapermen hugh cudlipp and cecil king.
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Netflix as we see in the crown some of the manoeuvring did actually go down at the burma star association annual reunion but.

Lord mountbatten coup. Did lord mountbatten consider the coup against harold wilson. One other major plot line will lord louis mountbattens apparent coup against harold wilson which features in the fifth episode of the new series and is called coup but what really happened at. How much of the drama is true. Andrew lownie author of a new book on the mountbattens explores the truth of the suggested coup attempt november 29 2019 at 948 am.