Nehru And Edwina Mountbatten Relationship
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.
Nehru and edwina mountbatten relationship. Nehrus niece nayantara sahgal had once said that the marriage with nehru and kamala nehru was a grievous mistake for two profoundly different people. On the other hand edwinaas marriage with dickey mountbatten had also resulted in crisis and edwina had lot of pre and post marriage affairs. 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. 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.
When edwina first met nehru a crowd of his admirers surged forward knocking edwina off her feet. Between lady edwina mountbatten and jawaharlal nehru. 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. Life as a mountbatten was first published in 2012 in the united kingdom and was recently brought to india as a paperback.
Anything other than platonic. There edwina was to find her most enduring love affair with indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru who at 58 was ten years her senior. Nehrus own sister mme vl. The affair between lord mountbattens wife edwina and jawaharlal nehru first prime minister of independent india is no secret.
Indias first prime minister jawaharlal nehru and the countrys last vicereine edwina mountbatten deeply loved and respected each other but they did not a physical relationship edwinas daughter pamela hicks nee mountbatten has written in a book recently published in india. Pamela later said her father condoned the relationship. While there is absolutely no doubt that a special bond of. The book daughter of empire.
Jawaharlal nehrurelationship relationship factsedwina mountbatten. She hid beneath a table and was rescued by nehru. Nehru at that time was 68 and edwina 10. Affection united nehru and lady mountbatten there was no.