![]() They included his valet, private pilot, gamekeeper, bodyguard, military secretary, his driver from 1948 as well as his daughter, two of his grandchildren, several of his former lovers, and his godchildren. I also traced over 100 people who had known the Mountbattens, most of who had never spoken before. It was filled with over 4,000 files and no previous writer had gone through them systematically. I spent four years in archives around the world, most notably in Mountbatten’s archives at Southampton University, UK. We are all interested in people’s love lives and marriages, especially open marriages which appear to work, but this had a significance because Edwina’s affair with Jawaharlal Nehru had huge political consequences.Ĭould you highlight aspects from the research process? Whom did you meet, did you authenticate the ‘sources’? Did you meet any member of the royal family? ![]() My eureka moment came when I realised there had been no joint biography of Mountbatten and his wife despite it being an important public and private partnership. ![]()
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