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Aug 3, 2021 · Lord Mountbatten in 1976. He is said to have exercised a "Rasputin-like influence" in the court of Queen Elizabeth. (Wikimedia Commons: Allan Warren) As the last great-grandchild and godchild of ...
Aug 2, 2021 · As the last great-grandchild and godchild of Queen Victoria, uncle of Prince Philip and adored great-uncle of Prince Charles, Mountbatten exercised a “Rasputin-like influence” in the court of ...
- Jenny Hocking
Jul 23, 2021 · Lord Mountbatten’s diaries have finally been released. Historians are examining them for any new evidence of links between the royal family and the Nazis—and other palace scandals.
- Clive Irving
Nov 13, 2020 · The death of Lord Mountbatten and tributes paid to him will be seen in contrast to the apathy of the British Government and English people to the deaths of over 300 British soldiers and the deaths ...
- Lesley Kennedy
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Aug 27, 2021 · The real history behind. The assassination of Prince Charles’s great-uncle and confidant, Lord Mountbatten, at the hands of the IRA in 1979, rocked the royal family. Andrew Lownie explains how the events unfolded and considers why Mountbatten – affectionately named ‘Dickie’ – was murdered, and whether the IRA was really behind the ...
- Elinor Evans
Jul 9, 2024 · Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was born in 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoye, in Siberia, a part of the Russian empire. He was a self-taught peasant who left his family farm to become something of a wandering holy man, though he was never ordained. He wound up in St. Petersburg, where he came to the attention of the Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina ...
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Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; [n 1] 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the ...