Pamela Mountbatten And Nehru

She was additionally an observer to the relationship between her mom and nehru which she portrays as being enamored yet without having any sexual contact in a talk with shyam bhatia in england. A personal account of the mountbattens during the transfer of power that while her mother countess mountbatten of burma and jawaharlal nehru the future prime minister of india were deeply in love the relationship remained platonic. The affair between lord mountbattens wife edwina and jawaharlal nehru first prime minister of independent india is no secret.
pamela mountbatten and nehru

She found in panditji the companionship and equality of spirit and intellect that she craved pamela says.

Pamela mountbatten and nehru. Which she mentioned in the book daughter of empire. The staff were given the choice to stay or go lady pamela. 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. Above right pamela mountbatten with jawaharlal nehru as she was about to leave india in june 1948.

Lord mountbatten was asked by nehru to stay on for ten months as governor general of india meaning his family witnessed every struggle. She wrote in india remembered. Nehru and mountbatten pamela mountbatten lord louis and edwina mountbattens little girl was 18 in the fall of 1947 which implies she had a ringside perspective of the occasions paving the way to and past independence. Pamela later said her father condoned the relationship called them a happy threesome as mountbatten himself wrote to his daughter patricia she and jawaharlal nehru are so sweet together.

In 2012 edwinas daughter lady pamela hicks accepted that there was a romance between her mother and jawaharlal nehru. 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. Life as a mountbatten. The success of crown on netflix has shown yet again the potential of the british aristocracy as an idea to weather in public perception all manner of progressive thinking anti imperial or anti class post colonial or post church that.

13 14 british historian philip ziegler with access to the private letters and diaries concludes the relationship. The love pandit jawaharlal nehru had for lady edwina mountbatten was chivalric and it was not physical says a new book by lady pamela mountbatten the daughter of lord mountbatten. She saw a profound relationship developing between nehru and her mother edwina ashley. Pamela hicks nee mountbatten was 17 when her father lord louis mountbatten came to india as the last viceroy.