Mountbatten And Nehru

Lady mountbatten went onto develop a relationship with indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru and they wrote long love letters to each other.

Mountbatten and nehru. The congress accepted the plan with some objections. Although mountbatten knew about nehru and his wife he pretended to be ignorant and he turned a blind eye to all events around him. There are a few references to lord mountbatten and indias first prime minister jawaharlal nehru. The reason was rather simple that he wanted to keep smooth relation with nehru since he wanted to implement many policies of british raj into india which he even succeeded in doing.

In the first interview given by any member of the mountbatten family on the relationship between lady mountbatten and jawaharlal nehru indias first prime minister lady pamela hicks earl mountbattens youngest daughter has said she does not believe nehru and lady mountbatten had a sexual relationship but added maybe everybody will think im being very naive. Both the rss and bjp suffer from a misconception that sardar patel and not jawaharlal nehru was the rightful claimant to the highest office in the country post independence and that the latter had cleverly manipulated both gandhi and lord mountbatten to become indias first prime minister pushing patel down to the number two slot. The proposal to allow certain parts secedes if they so will is painful for any of us to contemplate. Is the crown a true story.

In this handout picture taken on 15 august 1947 british governor general lord mountbatten c gestures alongside lady edwina mountbatten 2r and indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru r as they witnesses the raising of the indian tricolour for the first time at india gate in new delhi. In first seasons first episode during the wedding ceremony of queen elizabeth and prince philip at first winston churchill appears to be referring to lord mountbatten as the man who gave away india. The mountbattens did not divorce. He said for generations we have dreamt and struggled for a full independent and united india.

Afp getty imagesfile photo. As mountbatten himself wrote to his daughter patricia she and jawaharlal nehru are so sweet together they really dote on each other some believe the couple also indulged in threesomes as. 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.