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The Lives and Loves of the Mountbattens with Andrew Lownie

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Chorleywood Library, Lower Road WD3 5LB

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We would like to welcome back the prize-winning and best selling historian Andrew Lownie, whose new book marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Lord Mountbatten by the IRA.

Two remarkable people. Edwina Mountbatten was one of the richest women in Britain and prominent socialite. She was married to Dickie Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War Two, the last Viceroy of India and instigator of the marriage between Philip and Queen Elizabeth II.

The book draws on four years of research which took Andrew around the world and tells a story worthy of Hollywood with all the key figures of the era. From Churchill and Montgomery to Roosevelt and Eisenhower as well as the Duke of Windsor, George VI, the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles, Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Salvador Dali, George Gershwin, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Barbara Cartland, Grace Kelly and Merle Oberon. The book reads like a "Who's Who" of the Second World War.

This is an account of an unusual marriage which, whilst beset with infidelities, was also a loving and mutually supportive one. The book also reveals much new information on many of the controversies of Mountbatten’s career from the disastrous 1942 Dieppe Raid to the rapid transfer of power in India in 1947 as well as his murder in 1979.

Join us for a fascinating look at the nuances of this high-powered relationship.

The book will be just £18.00 (RRP £20) on the night.

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We would like to welcome back the prize-winning and best selling historian Andrew Lownie, whose new book marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Lord Mountbatten by the IRA.

Two remarkable people. Edwina Mountbatten was one of the richest women in Britain and prominent socialite. She was married to Dickie Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War Two, the last Viceroy of India and instigator of the marriage between Philip and Queen Elizabeth II.

The book draws on four years of research which took Andrew around the world and tells a story worthy of Hollywood with all the key figures of the era. From Churchill and Montgomery to Roosevelt and Eisenhower as well as the Duke of Windsor, George VI, the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles, Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Salvador Dali, George Gershwin, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Barbara Cartland, Grace Kelly and Merle Oberon. The book reads like a "Who's Who" of the Second World War.

This is an account of an unusual marriage which, whilst beset with infidelities, was also a loving and mutually supportive one. The book also reveals much new information on many of the controversies of Mountbatten’s career from the disastrous 1942 Dieppe Raid to the rapid transfer of power in India in 1947 as well as his murder in 1979.

Join us for a fascinating look at the nuances of this high-powered relationship.

The book will be just £18.00 (RRP £20) on the night.


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