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Historian asks why private letters are still sealed after fighting for access to them for four years


A historian fighting for the release of a tranche of royal letters claims they may have been suppressed to hide details of ‘lovers and mistresses’.
Andrew Lownie says he has spent £250,000 of his own money trying to see the private diaries of Lord Mountbatten, written from 1918 until 1979, when he was killed by the IRA.
The Mountbatten files include the private diaries of his wife Edwina, written from 1921 until her death in 1960, along with the correspondence between the pair.
The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife Edwina, Countess Mountbatten, pictured in their ceremonial robes in 1953
Lord Louis Mountbatten , the last Governor General from Britain waving a cheery farewell to the crowds in Delhi ....

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A Slice of Royal History Is for Sale as Mountbatten Treasures Go Up for Auction


A Slice of Royal History Is for Sale as Mountbatten Treasures Go Up for Auction
Victoria Murphy
© Courtesy of Sotheby’s; © The University of Southampton Library
The collection of 350 items includes everything from jewelry to furniture, paintings and books
When it comes to dynasties, you don’t get much more quintessential than the Mountbattens. The family links go right to the heart of the current British royal family (Mountbatten-Windsor is, of course, the surname of the Queen’s descendants) with a bloodline that can be traced back to both Queen Victoria and the last Tsarina of Russia.
So when Sotheby s London auction house opens its sale of property from the collection of the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Patricia Mountbatten, an extraordinary slice of society history will be going under the hammer. Some 350 lots will be auctioned on March 24, with items including jewelry, furniture, paintings, sculpture, and books. Honoring th ....

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