COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN BURIED AT SEA

[@cleong5585]

Princess Alice of battensberg, Prince Philip’s mom attended the funeral donning nun’s bonnet. She is actually a great and outstanding lady.

[@MandyJMaddison]

at 1:12

[@Bruce-1956]

Was

[@babagama4232]

She had become a nun....I guess she changed her religion to Orthodox Church....

[@Marie0575]

She was?

[@elizabethbrown8833]

I pray theyre reunited in Heaven now and in peace 💜🥀🙏🙏

[@zimnaya]

The Queen Mother, not one of Lady Mountbatten's most ardent admirers, quipped on hearing that she had been buried at sea, "Poor, dear Edwina...always did like to make a splash!"

[@laurenpage3548]

She was a bit of a frump

[@murrayaronson3753]

@Pawan Kumar Edwina Mountbatten was Sir Ernest Cassell's granddaughter and thus was of partial Jewish descent.

[@greekre]

@Silversled she was a lush of course she said it whilst taking a sip

[@Darrigrande]

@@Fran_van_der_Geld I don´t think that Elisabeth Bowes:-Lyons could be jealous od EM: She came from an old and afluent titled family and was a queen consort. Perhaps the queen mother was not amused of the promiscuos lifestyle of lady Mountbatten, whose affaires were well known in Britain and India.

[@melianna999]

"semen splash"

[@popazz1]

And now their daughter the Countess of Burma, Lady Braburn has died at age 93. RIP.

[@friedrich-karlkoelsch7236]

Brabourne

[@murrayaronson3753]

The title was Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

[@popazz1]

@@friedrich-karlkoelsch7236 Sticky keyboard, my apologies.

[@popazz1]

@@murrayaronson3753 Same meat, different gravy.

[@murrayaronson3753]

@@popazz1 I hope they all taste good.

[@ayakasalih4189]

My elderly father told me a much older sister of his was buried at sea (she died on a long sea voyage). It sounds romantic and grim at the same time...

[@PC24800]

I am trembling and pins'n' needles as I watch. So very moving and with the dignity of my youth. "Wakefull"! What a beautiful hull design and worthy of inclusion if planning another Royal Yacht. The Dignity of Great Britain.

[@hollyhocks7360]

How unusual to request a burial at sea especially for a woman in those days.

[@infantebenji]

very strange I always thought only those who had serve in a navy or sea farmers would request that burial

[@MandyJMaddison]

Her husband was the First Lord of the Admiralty

[@londiniumcross5122]

Her generation was different. She was no molly-coddle. Neither of the Royal relatives were, not even the Queen.

[@Darrigrande]

She was an unusual lady, very advanced for her time!

[@xanaduxanadu3605]

Isn't there the risk of her washing up on a beach?

[@talonswings7601]

did anybody else see princess Alice during the sign of the cross when the coffin fell in the ocean that shows that she's still committed to her life as a nun while still living at Buckingham Palace

[@michaelselby9664]

The Indian frigate, INS Trishul ("Trident") cast a wreath on behalf of India's people. She was India's last vicereine. Her work among the refugees of India's deadly partition of 1947 won her lasting respect there.

[@vilakshanventures]

This is such a sad scene. I wasn't expecting they would slide the coffin this way .

[@ingriddubbel8468]

That's how most bodies are burried at sea.

[@evelynreason5939]

Samu Shrestha hits

[@456inthemix]

Dead is dead.

[@GiftSparks]

I've never seen a "burial" of a woman this way. Usually, it is a man who is connected to the sea by his military service.

[@Bruce-1956]

@@ingriddubbel8468 usually without a coffin.

[@valeria-militiamessalina5672]

Mrs Moore, an important character from ‘ A Passage to India’ by Forester dies on the ship that brings her back to England and is also buried at sea; that scene is rendered very well in the movie based on the novel, I remember feeling touched by it; this made me think of that scene, I see some similarities, how interesting

[@murrayaronson3753]

I believe it was common that if someone died on a sea voyage, there would be burial at sea. It makes sense doesn't it?

[@Akenaten1]

How can he not mention the Queens mother in law princess Alice. Really stupid. She was a fascinating character!

[@Misscinnabon]

Oh dear he did mention it! Princess Andrew of Greece.

[@michelemartin3642]

It was mentioned, but not dwellt upon as the focus was on the grieving family and of course the late lady Edwina herself. Such an unusual way of burial for a lady of her rank ,connections & period, etc. But she was quite progressive for the times.

[@ricdavid7476]

you do know it was a bloke dressed up as a nun yes?

[@vaishnavikonidena1532]

Yes he mentioned her

[@VC27]

Videographed from the INS Trishul.

[@f.marshall8268]

A taste of history and first hand account of burial at sea.

[@Fran_van_der_Geld]

Edwina was called "A Champagne Socialist." She was very wealthy but was in no way a bigot.

[@IrishAnnie]

Not a bigot at all. She had an affair with Nehru.

[@Darrigrande]

@@IrishAnnie And many others too! She had an "open marriage" with Lord Mountbatten and both had la long string of lovers and mistresses during their live.

[@mikegalvin9801]

She won 5000 pounds back when that was a huge sum in the Thirties for libel against a London tabloid that implied she was having an affair with Paul Robeson. Lucky for her it was another black singer she was carrying on with that season.

[@melianna999]

@@Darrigrande He was not interested in women. Read Wiki about him. Everything coming out 40 years later. For people of his time he was royal -hero. His wife had FBI note as woman of very low morals.

[@mediterraneanworld]

@@melianna999 you mean Malaria?

[@CarrsMill]

You can feel the emotion in this film, she must have been a well loved person. RIP.

[@melianna999]

very "well"

[@rishabhdeb]

Tribute to Lady Mountbatten from her beloved India

[@mrkongsimr]

Saw my favorite princess , princess Alice !

[@michelemartin3642]

Great. Princess Alice has always been my favourite out of all Q. Victoria's daughters, next is Pcss Louise & Vicky.

[@ricdavid7476]

you do know that it is a bloke dressed up as a nun yes?

[@pedanticradiator]

@@michelemartin3642 this was not that Princess Alice this Alice was Victoria's great granddaughter Prin e Philip's mother

[@pas6862]

All that dignity and then...splash!!

[@BradleyWilliams-vu4us]

Shame !

[@CarollFord2019]

Princess Alice, Prince Philips mother is buried on the mount of olives.As was her wish.

[@melianna999]

She was extraordinary woman. Suffer a lot. And had special gift.

[@anirudhchatterjee5695]

She was the daughter of wealthy financier Ernest Cassell.She won hearts in India by her humanitarian work during the refugee crisis that followed the partition of the Indian sub- continent into two dominions of India and Pakistan.

[@desiswadeshi8667]

She was herself responsible for the partition

[@anirudhchatterjee5695]

@@desiswadeshi8667 Not true at all.

[@desiswadeshi8667]

@@anirudhchatterjee5695 well the version I know is she arm twisted both Nehru n Jinnah to agree to partition India as both of these fools were into her. Britishers were not too happy with united India. The max they could do was divide India. Here she played her part well

[@anirudhchatterjee5695]

@@desiswadeshi8667 Totally wrong .Just go through her personal diary and see what she wrote on April 4, the day MA Jinnah along with his sister Fatima met Lord Mountbatten.She wrote on April 4 1947 :"Two very clever people but fanatical in their demand for Pakistan ."

[@ilanamillion8942]

She was the granddaughter, not the daughter of Ernest Cassell.

[@SouthernMaineFoamer]

In the states, it’s common for a Navy family to be buried at sea. So to see it done in the UK is special. Though, there are a few differences but some similarities. Differences are: A casket being used instead of a coffin, drilling holes in the casket to help it sink, and the family is not allowed to be on the ship as it is a deployed one. The similarities are: the phrase “we commit their body to the deep” being used, most bodies are cremated, and dropping the body in a very similar way. There is one thing we do here in the states that I’m not sure if you guys do it as well, and that is turning the cremated remains into environmental friendly reefs.

[@equestanton1017]

Wonder if anyone in rootling around in the deep has found Edwina's mortal remains, she could be wearing some interesting jewellery!

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

......I was justing thinking that there's quite a few coffins deep down in the English Channel!

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Her body would completely disintegrate.

[@stellertonybeller1972]

@@ingriddubbel8468 correct if it was just the body in the sea but it's in sealed in a coffin ....who knows

[@Clipgatherer]

+EquestAnton. Burials at sea don’t seem environmentally acceptable today. Cremated remains are sometimes strewn into the sea, however.

[@joansmith3296]

I read that Edwina cheated on Lord Mountbatten every chance she got. Its rumored she even had an affair with Nehru. Yet Louie Mountbatten adored her his entire life.

[@Mistermopar]

Maybe she cheated on him as revenge for his penchant for young boys.......

[@f.marshall8268]

@@Mistermopar Say what? 😲😲

[@smacwhinnie]

He lived well off her trust funds

[@kshitijkhanna9942]

Nehru cried all day when she died lol.

[@mscott3918]

@@Mistermopar He didn't have a penchant for young boys. That is something said about nearly everyone these days, and as with nearly all of them it's just nonsense. The only one with a liking for young men was the late Lord Snowdon, who used to take young French men to a London restaurant that had private rooms.

[@fabriziobovitutti9719]

So polluting. Imagine if everyone of us would want to be buried at sea !

[@debbiehall7016]

Give me a break

[@chrismc410]

Seafarers have been for centuries and to this day

[@Darrigrande]

The fishes would have a lot of nourishment indeed!!

[@emeraldkimble7602]

She and daughter Pamela were both bridesmaids at qe2 and princess dianas wedding

[@joshuaprakash2352]

The music /hymn is very nice and haunting. Could you please give me the name of this peice of music. Thanks and regards.

[@PeacockMRS]

Eternal Father, Strong to Save

[@ichliebemeinefrau2934]

The words of the hymn “O Valiant Hearts” were written after the Great War by Sir John Arkwright and traditionally set to the tune “The Supreme Sacrifice” by The Rev Dr Charles Harris.

[@leinam4164]

It’s like old movies

[@ravichristian6364]

very good

[@dancostello6465]

Was the mother of Philip there, did I see Princess Alice on the gangplank. One of the Greeks died from a monkey bite.

[@AhmedRahim-gq9yy]

Nice

[@jensmom604]

Didn't her husband get blown up by the IRS?

[@b.walker5955]

Well, not sure what the Internal Revenue Service of the US would have wanted with him...but if you are referring to the IRA then yes. : ) He had his boat out for lobster and a remote control bomb placed in the boat the night before was detonated. The IRA claimed responsibility. He survived the blast, but his legs were almost blown off. He was rescued by a fisherman that was near the explosion, but did not survive when they made it to shore. In this video, it was he that kissed the wreath before the toss near the end of the service. If you read about him you will find he was instrumental in Prince Charles's marriage decisions...and likely why he would later chose Diana over Camilla.

[@aonehouseboy4945]

No, he wS blown up by a bomb, courtesy of the IRA, you know the financial people for your retirement--at least here in the USA.

[@b.walker5955]

@@aonehouseboy4945 OMGosh, took me three readings of your comment to finally catch your underlining whit. I am a wee bit slow. But in three, things are looking up for me. : )

[@aonehouseboy4945]

@@b.walker5955 well, that does tell us that you have the mental agility to cut thru thi gs when it is necessary to quell attitudes that nust make ppl want to help advances in chaos.

[@stellertonybeller1972]

No but most Americans do if they don't pay their tax's lol ........IRA

[@fordpopular8792]

Lady MOUNTBATTEN died at JESSELTON which was then Borneo (SABAH)

[@alimcmoet]

Very eccentric.

[@leinam4164]

I remember watching this movie

[@aashishsharma9106]

'Tell Cersei it was me' -Countess Mountbatten

[@stellertonybeller1972]

always thought they dropped the body alone and not with the coffin ........i wonder if it is still there or all gone by now

[@kshitijkhanna9942]

Nehru must have cried all night long 😂😂

[@TeaLuck1]

That's funny ?

[@aleempervaiz8789]

I believe Kashmir issue is/was still haunting Nehru & Mountbatten. Where ever they may be?

[@ais8358]

Curse the royal family they did the rule and divide with Fat racist churchill

[@divyanshsrivastava4703]

She was a great lady ❤️❤️❤️. May soul her rest in peace ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@debbiehall7016]

I just wonder why she got such an elaborate send off, fit for a queen, or a head of state. To be put on a great ship and sailed out to sea. What did the British people think of it all I wonder..

[@melianna999]

They LOVE everything about royals

[@mediterraneanworld]

because of her service to the country you ninny!

[@TheStigmaboy]

what the hell!

[@toyman9642]

Fred Telarma...that's how it's done!

[@MintuChamua]

Rip

[@hasmetd]

narrator sounds like Jeremy Irons

[@Justwrestle129]

What happened to her coffin then? Was she cremated?

[@rkiry]

No, as stated in writing and in the video, she was BURIED at sea...literally buried in the sea - coffin and all.

[@sevengo6652]

@@rkiry will it not float?

[@ilanamillion8942]

@@sevengo6652 There are usually holes in the sides of the coffin and some weights. It's very specific how it has to be done so that coffins don't come floating into shore.

[@sathyavanimaiya959]

🙏🙏🙏

[@anirudhchatterjee5695]

She died in Borneo in 1960.

[@tomservo56954]

Thanks for that piece of information

[@cherylcentenioblessedvirgi3241]

Father, The Creator, gave each of His mortal Theist Spirits a grave in Heaven. This is Father's established burial method. Each of Father's mortal Theist Spirits were resurrected to life to be present in The Worlds Plan due to a granted request for mortal male Spirit God. Theist Spirits will begin their return to Heaven in less than 33 years.

[@Asif-ISB]

I think after seeing the outrage done to Indian land as british colony, lady mountbatten had decided to disregard the land which is cause of misery to humans and decided to lay underwater.

[@babagama4232]

So Savage....

[@sandymitchell258]

And countless affairs the lady enjoyed ?

[@hhorsley6264]

The best comment on Lady M's funeral reportedly came from the Queen Mother 'poor Edwina she always did like to go down like a splash!'

[@hs7921]

A date would be good.

[@kellyvaters1689]

This was only a month after Pamela (her younger daughter) married David Hicks.

[@greekre]

suspicious

[@nandiniarchi]

it was not at all indias sorrow may be Nehrus sorrow. this mountbatten family is actually reason of indias sorrow - indias partition. india was quite a rich country , its money was equal to england money , it became poor after british went , reason is well understood.

[@jackr1779]

Thats right, blame the British for everything. India is done very well out of Great Britain & should be grateful.

[@robertcuminale1212]

Britain left as soon as it could because it didn't want to be blamed for the murderous mayhem and the partition of India. It was not Britain's desire to see India destroyed.

[@dianahemmingsdh]

they didn't look after the poor very well

[@mscott3918]

Always whining about the past. Why not think about now, and ask your corrupt politicians why they steal the western aid money from the people of India?

[@sv8211]

@@robertcuminale1212 - Britain earnestly desired to destroy India. When they left off, they broke India into 540 princely states and left, hoping for a massive infighting. But one man, Sardar Patel shattered the dreams of Britain. and as they say, Karma is a bitch, What Britain hoped for India had happened with Britain. Ireland broke away totally, Scotland on its way.

[@rajubarman3074]

He was indian last governor general

[@mscott3918]

Actually Viceroy. One step up.

[@ds1868]

@@mscott3918 He was Viceroy but when India became independent he became Governor General of the Dominion of India.

[@AH-zf5on]

She was the aunt of Prince Phillip ?

[@175_muhammadyudhiarabbani9]

Yup!

[@AH-zf5on]

@@175_muhammadyudhiarabbani9 thanks!

[@Darrigrande]

Yes! She was the wife of his uncle Lord Mountbatten.

[@babagama4232]

Actually no.....Lord mountbaton was prince Philip's maternal uncle....hence she was the aunt(by marriage)

[@fritzhenning1]

Who bore the cost for this burial at sea....not cheap with the RN in attendance. I feel sure it wasn't Loius himself.

[@annepascoe9133]

It doesn't seem right to bury someone at sea seems like polluting the sea

[@anacletwilliams8315]

What nonsense! Can you just imagine the "pollution" of the seas every time a whale dies? The oceans are immense and a little corpse in it means nothing. And now stop writing stupid things on the internet. Shame on you, Anne Pascoe!

[@traceyreed9167]

There’s actually nothing more green or natural. They have many requirements for such a burial and everything is returned to Mother Earth.

[@fivepoints]

@@traceyreed9167 Assuming the coffin is biodegradable. Can't be metal. Her's was wooden, at least it looked like wood.

[@virginiafry9854]

Polluting the ocean with a wooden coffin!

[@hotoneinspai]

Oh What...not worthy of a comment.

[@michelemartin3642]

Well a bit of wood would rot away quite quickly. Not as bad as millions of gallons of oil leaked at sea , as well as other heavy metals, plastics, etc, etc, dumped regularly. Pollution has taken is toll, unfortunately.

[@rogercarroll2551]

It's degradable cardboad. Crabs ate her so no pollution. Be at peace.

[@BradleyWilliams-vu4us]

Bi bi

[@arunsen4017]

Mountbatten destroyed the monument of INA at Singapore. So he received the proper punishment. Why we should be emotional?

[@mercomania]

What a waste of money.

[@Justme-zo3jy]

they couldnt afford a real grave , long live the Irish Republican Army

[@josephina2011]

Passionate

[@kshitijkhanna9942]

India will always be grateful to Irish for blasting her husband into pieces🙏🏻. The chief divider and murderer of millions of Indians

[@Jungleland33]

@@RampantFury925 don't you find it unusual that the terrorist is always the one with the small bomb?

[@alexejII]

@@kshitijkhanna9942 I think your politicians were most to blame for sharing. The Viceroy acted on what your politicians suggested, Mountbatten could not force the people to be one. India and Pakistan could not be one after independence, only under the British crown it was possible.

[@alexejII]

Irish proletarian pack

[@anacletwilliams8315]

What a strange, unusual wish, to be buried at sea.

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

....a lot of 'old boy' sailors wish to be buried at sea. Not unusual. Lord Mountbatten was blown up in a harbour by the Irish. I don't think they liked him!

[@f.marshall8268]

It seems unusual now but decades ago it was a wish of many persons, especially sailors and other sea going men.

[@diasporaafortiori5180]

Anglo saxons and Vikings burial tradition

[@anacletwilliams8315]

@@f.marshall8268 Even though Lady Edwina Mountbatten was very fond of sailors, I don't think she was one of them.

[@Itbmurr1]

I was expecting them to spread her ashes....not dumping the coffin overboard. 😳