The intimate story of a unique marriage that spans the heights of glamour and power to infidelity, manipulation and disaster through the heart of the 20th century.ĭICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the Royal Family taking the Mountbatten name, he was Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War II and the last Viceroy of India.ĮDWINA MOUNTBATTEN: Once the richest woman in Britain and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, she emerged from World War II as a magnetic and talented humanitarian worker loved around the world.įrom British high society to the South of France, from the battlefields of Burma to the Viceroy's House, The Mountbattens is a rich and filmic story of a powerful partnership, revealing the truth behind a carefully curated legend.
'Well-researched, enjoyable, revealing' The Oldie 'Everything a top-notch biography should be' Budapest Times 'A compelling new biography.superbly researched' Daily Express 'A page-turner which is also a carefully researched work of history' Spectator 'A study in aggressive social climbing quick-moving fluency' Sunday Times impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the Year
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