Accessibility Links

The official website for BBC History Magazine, BBC History Revealed and BBC World Histories Magazine

  1. Home
  2. Period
  3. 20th Century
  4. The Mountbattens: success and scandal

The Mountbattens: success and scandal

Andrew Lownie discusses the colourful and controversial lives of Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. It’s a story that incorporates Indian independence, royal connections and scandalous love affairs

Lord Louis Mountbatten with his fiancee Edwina Ashley in 1922. (Photo by Getty Images)

The author and literary agent Andrew Lownie discusses his bestselling recent book The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves, which explores the colourful and controversial lives of Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. It’s a story that incorporates Indian independence, royal connections and scandalous love affairs.

Advertisement

How to download the History Extra podcast

Advertisement

Download as MP3

Tags

More on: United Kingdom

An engraving of Margaret Tudor
Learn more about this subject

You may like

The queen's visit to the Welsh village of Aberfan
20th Century

“No match for reality”: the missing history in The Crown series three

1939: Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British Statesman and Prime Minister for two terms (1940 - 1945 and 1951 - 1955). (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
20th Century

Icons Read more about the game changers of the 20th century

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
General Modern

The decline and fall of the British empire

Margaret Thatcher meets personnel during her visit to the Falkland Islands. (Photo by Sven Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)
20th Century

Britain in the early 80s