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Earl Mountbatten in Malta
The book describes Jean Townend's social connections:
At the pinnacle of this social swirl was Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India, First Sea Lord, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS. Mountbatten, who was assassinated by the IRA in 1979, had been the uncle both of Prince Philip and his partner in sexual licentiousness, Milford Haven.
In 1975, a Daily Mirror exposé accused Mountbatten of involvement with a gay circle of Royal Life Guards. The resulting army investigation saw five Life Guards officers and thirty-six guardsmen dismissed from the regiment for "homosexual activities." Needless to say, the Earl was unscathed by the allegations, which he denied. (The allegations no doubt excited the Guards' obsessed Michael Whittaker).
The journalist and royal biographer, Gwen Robyns, one of the sources for this book, was a close friend of Mountbatten's daughter, Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks. At one point Gwen began a biography of Lady Pamela's husband, the interior designer David Hicks, and interviewed many of his friends. She was shocked at how "after knocking back a few drinks" they detailed Hick's lurid and debauched adventures - which extended into Buckingham Palace:
He was really into mucky stuff!
Then Earl Mountbatten got wind of her research...
Earl Mountbatten in Malta
The book describes Jean Townend's social connections:
At the pinnacle of this social swirl was Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India, First Sea Lord, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS. Mountbatten, who was assassinated by the IRA in 1979, had been the uncle both of Prince Philip and his partner in sexual licentiousness, Milford Haven.
In 1975, a Daily Mirror exposé accused Mountbatten of involvement with a gay circle of Royal Life Guards. The resulting army investigation saw five Life Guards officers and thirty-six guardsmen dismissed from the regiment for "homosexual activities." Needless to say, the Earl was unscathed by the allegations, which he denied. (The allegations no doubt excited the Guards' obsessed Michael Whittaker).
The journalist and royal biographer, Gwen Robyns, one of the sources for this book, was a close friend of Mountbatten's daughter, Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks. At one point Gwen began a biography of Lady Pamela's husband, the interior designer David Hicks, and interviewed many of his friends. She was shocked at how "after knocking back a few drinks" they detailed Hick's lurid and debauched adventures - which extended into Buckingham Palace:
He was really into mucky stuff!
Then Earl Mountbatten got wind of her research...