Lord Mountbatten Is Assassinated by the IRA | The Crown (Olivia Colman, Charles Dance)

[@NorthColin]

This scene is genius because everyone was hunting something, whether it be lobster, fish, or pheasants, not realizing that they themselves, the royal family, was also being hunted.

[@victoriacole7661]

oohhh well done you.

[@lordeden2732]

Oh boy you can type compleat and utter dribble.

[@NorthColin]

@@lordeden2732And you cannot spell correctly.

[@MyNameIsSeamus]

​@@NorthColingood

[@TheBlackBox_YouTube]

Amazing writing. Good eye too. Most people never notice things like that in film.

[@doubleducks814]

As a catholic doing repairs in a protestant bar in Belfast I remember phoning my boss and saying "come and get me before they kill me"

[@MegaSpideyman]

Really?

[@hiramabiff2017]

Was those repairs needed in the bar after another IRA atrocity ? And you and I both know you either lied about your religion ( a sin if I recall ) to be working there in the first place or your talking utter b@llocks.

[@doubleducks814]

@@MegaSpideyman Don't be a dick.

[@archaeoPeter]

How would they know you are a catholic? 😮

[@keahithefieryone8513]

@@archaeoPeter They know

[@dengamleidiot]

4:19 Going from silence to noisy endcard, should be a crime in editing

[@Revster]

You’d hate what Jujutsu Kaisen did after a massive disaster 😅

[@connieclarke5855]

@@Revster why do you think your anime is relevant to this TV show for adults?

[@Revster]

@@connieclarke5855 for doing what the comment above mentioned, instead of worrying about which show is for who, despite both shows having the same pg rating 🤦‍♂️

[@connieclarke5855]

@@Revster Why do you think your mediocre anime is comparable to this TV show for adults?

[@Revster]

@@connieclarke5855 I already answered that and it’s my anime as much as the crown is your series, since you can’t read though maybe try text to speech

[@dwilborn1257]

I love how the queen sees the vehicles coming and just knows it can't be good news.

[@NiVi192]

Well sadly, she had a history of getting bad news on vacation!

[@mnfrench7603]

It was in the script 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@tylerkochman1007]

They wouldn’t disturb her otherwise

[@allshookup1640]

The monarch is allowed to go on planned excursions I’m sure some security was with her, but mainly she was spending time with her family. She should have been having a nice peaceful day. With so many people rushing to get that can only mean something happened and they are bringing her LOADS more protection or dignitaries to speak to her IMMEDIATELY. That can never be good. Otherwise they could just wait until she returns

[@saltnessmonster]

Likely MI5 did it, Mountbatten had a very shameful personal life that would have destroyed the British establishment.

[@TK-ky5kh]

You never expect the assassin to be a lobster, but that's just how crazy things got at this time in history.

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

That lobster waited 800 years to get at English nobility

[@James-ju4gj]

Thus began the great lobster wars that would shape the modern world

[@SunflowerSocialist]

@@James-ju4gjAll hail lobster

[@jackmclean4120]

There was nothin' we could do. The lobster was a made guy, and Francis wasn't.

[@AdaraBalabusta]

I remember living in London at this time. Every lone backpack was treated as if it were a bomb. It's always a good time to be young; that was true for us, but it was also a very frightening time to be young.

[@randbarrett8706]

The conflicts at the periphery of empire always make their way to the imperial core eventually

[@alexakowalski8215]

Did you have no Blacks no Irish no dogs sigh?

[@colloquialsoliloquy6391]

Well for us in Ireland ,it wasn't every backpack ,but every foreign soldier with guns ,that frightened us. Those and the sadistic loyalist death squads ,who with Intel and weapons from the RUC ,would roam the country looking for innocent Catholics to murder.

[@dodgedemonsrtx]

Maybe u shouldn't have attacked the Irish people and give them independence and freedom huh? Don't u think it's a better option?

[@chandarussell]

I remember. We were taught never to set a shopping bag or anything down and take a step away even just to look at something just in case someone thought you were leaving a bomb.

[@NiVi192]

The cinematography, the score, the editing, the sound mixing, the subtle use of visual effects - God, this show had a strong crew!

[@Saltybuher]

My understanding is that Mountbatten was a bad guy and a bad officer as well.

[@NiVi192]

@@Saltybuher Even if that was true (and even if that tells you that the man, his children, grandchildren... all deserved to die in a horrible terrorist attack), what does that have to do with any of what I said about the work of the show's crew?

[@Tim.NavVet.EN2]

@@Saltybuher Actually he was well liked and lead from the front! (The portrayal of him in "The Longest Day" is spot on according to the veterans who say him that day!!!)

[@cosmiconion87]

alright Nigel - yeah i enjoyed working on this with you mate ;-) see ya Wednesday

[@abstractalien12345]

Such talent wasted to frame things so dishonestly. The whole time shes crying to the telegram being read, all I can think is, “just give them their island back”. It is sad centuries of oppression affected her for a fleeting moment, too, but just give it effing back

[@pfdrtom]

Olivia is a superb actress. From funny roles (Peep Show) to something as serious as this. What a lovely lady.

[@sebastianbonnet1492]

Check out her episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Marvellous.

[@lordeden2732]

There are many female actors far better than her who did not get her breaks. Just because she can remember the works and not fall over the furniture does not make her wonderful

[@sheilaburns8977]

@@lordeden2732 Wow, this sounds personal. BTW, she is also an Oscar winner.

[@rhizomorph-music]

Sadly, the female lobster was not, in fact, able to go have her babies in peace.

[@johndoerner8790]

Your attempt at humor is disgustingly in poor taste.

[@FelonDeGeneres]

@@johndoerner8790 I disagree, for I am hiiiiighly amused.

[@chrishamblett945]

High IQ level comedy 😂

[@johndoerner8790]

Cynical humor is the laziest of all humor; Apparently that describes your taste, and intelligence.

[@johndoerner8790]

@chrishamblett945 . Actually very low level. Maybe you laugh at " Fart " jokes. You probably do.

[@ArmourSoldier-n4t]

Cany believe the lobster was a IRA assassin

[@captainlamp2.076]

His name is Larry. The IRA promised to buy him a weight set so he didn't have to use anchor arms anymore.

[@Roddy556]

What a twist

[@TommyA1991]

A very unshelfish act

[@dengamleidiot]

Can’y

[@tylerjohnson9949]

Gross

[@crazybulksj]

I met the boat handler (captain) in Donegal once and he told me he should of been on that boat that day. Thankfully he wasn’t on that boat. His brother lived in England and was getting married and wanted him to be best man. Unfortunately he couldn’t afford the tickets to England but on the day of the explosion he headed to catch his flight as he be out her paid. I’ve also stood where the IRA was most likely watching the boat from the sore. Was a eerie feeling.

[@scottcharney1091]

Should *have

[@larkatdawn]

Thank Heaven for that!!

[@claremontcowboy7409]

Yeah, the boat handler was lying to you - it's a story all the old codgers like to tell tourists.

[@toastedt140]

​@@claremontcowboy7409goes along with the carpenter's "I did cabinetry for the royal family"

[@BrianMcCarthy-z9l]

It wasn't the IRA, but another group.

[@delgrady10]

I remember seeing on the walls in West Belfast as a kid ‘14 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, WE GOT 18 AND MOUNTBATTEN - IRA’ The ‘14 gone’ was reference to the 14 innocent people shot dead by the British army on Bloody Sunday.

[@lngvly22]

Amazing how evil war and strife can turn ordinary people.

[@gillianbrown8502]

Mountbatten was a dreadful man, though a great shame others died with him on that boat.

[@Acheron666]

Mountbatten was a nonce.

[@lordeden2732]

​@gillianbrown8502 He was an old Queen and kiddie fiddler. His wife was no better, She bedded any male she could get her claws on, willing or not.

[@wolverineeagle]

They killed children. They were no better than the British.

[@austinhuber3131]

Charles Dance is like 0-2 against the Irish.

[@TH3CAPN]

800 year lead kidda lmao

[@vangroover1903]

0-3 if you count Eddie Murphy taking out Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child. I mean, he is named Murphy...right?

[@austinhuber3131]

@@vangroover1903 Ha ha ha ha golden

[@austinhuber3131]

@@TH3CAPN Yeah, Charles Dance is 800 years old

[@TH3CAPN]

@@austinhuber3131 whoosh

[@POPE_FRANC1S]

No matter what you think about mountbatten you have to agree that those two children were innocent

[@Ck-zk3we]

As were all the children he abused

[@Taffy064]

@@Ck-zk3we 👍I wanted to say that.

[@HappyBoxer-nb1mb]

@@Ck-zk3wechildren are not expendable. Period.

[@catalina1968]

@@Ck-zk3weWhat did he do?

[@caryinsheppard8003]

​@@wthwasthat8884 OMG, that bastard! Thanks for explaining.

[@RonRicho]

One of the most perfectly paced scenes I have ever seen.

[@ilkkaholma7832]

Olivia Colman is such an awesome actor. her presence makes almost anything watchable!

[@truthslayer1372]

Actress

[@ilkkaholma7832]

@@truthslayer1372 i prefer to say actor. she is in the "overall greatness of acting" category

[@ManCave1972]

Production values were strong with this one. Done with drama and sensitivity, don’t forget two young lads died that day too.

[@istoppedcaring6209]

20, 18 soldiers are said to also have been killed and then there are all the Irish people that no doubt also died

[@danielmorris6523]

I am rather suspicious of old men who go out on small boats with unrelated young boys.

[@bobh2610]

​​@@danielmorris6523One was his grandson, the other was a local teen serving as crew. Also on the boat was his daughter, her husband, his daughter's other son (twin of the one that was killed) and his daughter's 83yo mother-in-law. The mother-in-law died the following day, the rest lived.

[@jamesmartin4055]

Destroyed the tourism In Leitrim and Sligo with the English fishermen

[@jefreyjefrey6349]

@@bobh2610 Slava Ukraine it wasnt Russians..

[@deniseeulert2503]

"oh dear, it's never good when they come in packs like this."

[@Richard-l4l5i]

Such a well acted line and for some reason weirdly funny

[@boysofwexford]

Brits travelling in jeeps was always bad news ... mostly for them

[@mrjockt]

Let’s not forget that on the same day Mountbatten was murdered the British Army also lost a total of 18 men in the Warrenpoint Massacre, the largest number of soldiers killed in a single incident during the entirety of the Troubles.

[@JimJam8008]

@@Kirbyoto2098why the hate?

[@DiscopediaTheBoogieMan]

@@JimJam8008well earned hate.

[@stephenmurray2851]

​@@DiscopediaTheBoogieManhow's that working out for you 😂. Remember its called ulster

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

@@JimJam8008 Because the brits are colonizers.

[@75YBA]

🇮🇪

[@trinaq]

I remember watching this episode, despite knowing what was going to happen, and just feeling shocked all the same. What a way to open the fourth series.

[@Saywhatnow-o3w]

If it’s really true to history it would mention that Mountbatten was a pervert

[@vangroover1903]

It was an explosive season opener, for sure. I wonder if they were worried the series was starting to bomb?

[@seanlee3319]

From the perspective of the lobster, this was a comedy.

[@heliotropezzz333]

Except that all but one of the lobsters was blown up and even that one may not have been far enough away to survive.

[@lesyeuxsansvisage1157]

Studies have shown lobsters have sentience. They mate for life, enjoy holding claws with their mate, and can live more than a 100 years. For the lobsters perspective, it’s probably horrifying.

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

Apart from the tinnitus it suffered the rest of its life.

[@antwandadon2341]

I heard lord Mountbatten was a pedo

[@tomservo5007]

lobster died from the pressure wave

[@OlafProt]

It was shocking for his family, and friends. But that man was a cruel, twisted, and many say perverted individual, and an inept leader. His death doesn't deserve to be elevated above any other deaths during the Troubles, simply because of his Lordly status.

[@patstratpicker5889]

Four of my uncles (all now passed on in the old age) fought in WW2- two in the army, 1 in the navy and one in Air Force. They weren't at Dieppe, the disastrous raid that was planned and overseen by Mountbatten and observed from offshore by Lt.Ian Fleming (yes, that one). Louis Mountbatten was not considered a hero in Canada, that's for sure. From Wiki... ..."He was central in the planning and promotion of the raid on the port of Dieppe. The raid was a marked failure, with casualties of almost 60%, the great majority of them Canadians.[32] Following the Dieppe Raid, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, with the Royal Canadian Legion distancing itself from him during his visits there during his later career.[43] His relations with Canadian veterans, who blamed him for the losses, "remained frosty" after the war.[44]"

[@derekstynes9631]

@@patstratpicker5889 A foolish badly planned debacle and it was ordered by Churchill and Mountbatten to placate that Butcher Stalin !

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

What a great day for humanity this was. This demon caused such misery for children in India. Unspeakable crimes.

[@rickster5120]

I remember this being reported and mountbatten being painted a saint ...as I've grown older and you realise how he was the polar opposite ..

[@sethwarren8106]

Should have been in jail for attempting a coup

[@soyentak5076]

yeah sending Canadian boys on a suicide mission. thank god my granddad was in the 3rd Canadian Division not the 2nd. but at the end of the day murder is still murder.

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

He was a real Navy man, fancied himself sailor boys to have some buggery with.

[@CheeseScout]

@@AppalachianMountaineer1863 Is that a British Navy tradition??!

[@Jesse-qy6ur]

@@CheeseScout What do you think comes after rum and before the lash?

[@JamesMcCown-yf3qf]

Olivia Coleman is brilliant in this scene. Consider her facial expression: Shock, anger, grief . . . all at once.

[@Rjl41]

and Margaret Thatcher's, her face shows all the same!

[@mbaxter22]

Why is Mountbatten now remembered as a martyr? He wasn't some noble figure, not in deeds anyway.

[@polmcsuibhne7657]

on that day i was with my father in that place ..sad for the two innocent boys.

[@larkatdawn]

I did not realise that the boys were killed too...Blocked the possibility I suppose. I encountered the man who claimed to have led the assassination - INLA, not IRA...hyped up "cocaine affect" surrounded by sycophants, and according to a now deceased Irish RTE journalist, he would never sit with his back to a window. Yet went every day at the same time to the same newsagent.

[@truthray2885]

I remember when this happened, and reading that Mountbatten, who still loathed the Japanese for their methods and treatment of British prisoners in Burma and Asia in WW2, had insisted that no Japanese officals be in attendance at his funeral. In another story, I think he was the British Raj top dog at the time of Indian independence in 1947, and its civil war leading to the creation of Pakistan. Some time after, he and Lady Mountbatten went to Pakistan to visit its first independent ruler, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who was known to be a massive stiff. Jinnah had prepared a cute little line to say with them in front of the cameras, expecting that LM would stand between himself and Lord Mountbatten for an official photo. Instead, they positioned Jinnah between themselves, but being a stiff, he said the line anyway, which was, "Ha ha, a rose between two thorns." And there was general discomfort all around. 😂

[@TH3CAPN]

@totoroidJapanese stay getting melted by fat man 🌬️

[@balckrat]

I wonder did any of his "boys" from Kincora Boys School attend his funeral.

[@TH3CAPN]

@totoroid sounds like cope lad

[@MrSRA13]

​​@totoroidwhile the yanks won the war? You mean while the UK paid the yanks who finally joined late after the hard graft had been done by the British, French resistance and the Russians. Don't get me wrong, the US gave significant relief and helped mop up/ end the war quicker. But the fact they joined late cost so many lives when they could have helped prevent it. The UK only recently finished paying them back financially. It was like handing over the keys of the empire. So always quite insulting to suggest the yanks won the war when they absolutely did not. They basically missed what would be considered the war.

[@zeeniashah440]

Yeah. Jinnah wasn't being obtuse he was being deliberate. He loathed Mountbatten and his wife who was openly flirting with Nehru.

[@dvrn86]

Poor wee lads didn't deserve that.

[@Azazel2024]

Yeah. Cowards way honestly

[@Heretomakeyourage]

​@@Azazel2024ira saved them kids from that nonce

[@c.3727]

@@Azazel2024cowards are the British terrorists calling the Ira terrorists.

[@magnusthered4973]

​@terenceflanagan1225 how is it cowardice when things like the Raf exist

[@Pow3llMorgan]

@@magnusthered4973 How it's cowardly to covertly plant a bomb in someone's boat which is possibly going to blow up with children aboard? Gee I don't know...

[@unrulysue6927]

I remember this happening when I was a child, with my parents watching it on the news

[@CaAnPeSe4ever]

Me too, I was 11.

[@michaelhayden725]

A woman I worked with spent nearly two days being questioned by the Irish police about this incident. On the two nights before she had been drinking in a bar with two of the suspected culprits. The fact that she was a young naive Australian woman initially did not cut any mustard. She was eventually released.

[@colloquialsoliloquy6391]

Ouch don't mention children and Mountbatten...

[@AdamBechtol]

@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 uggg, went on a little Wikipedia rabbit hole :( not pleastant.

[@colloquialsoliloquy6391]

@@AdamBechtol quite sickening right? Next to wiki is British concentration camps in Kenya AFTER WW2

[@fabulouschild2005]

I don't care for Mountbatten, but I feel sorry for those poor boys

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

I feel sorry for the other ones that went out on his boat. Definitely had some not consenting “buggery” going on.

[@j.3069]

As a lone twin I merely feel the pain of losing your twin. Worse than losing your mother or child as you had an identity without before that. A very difficult and complex loss. May his memory be a blessing.

[@SadieKay1]

I'm so sorry this happened to you. Lone twin should never be a thing ❤much love

[@j.3069]

@SadieKay1 I appreciate the sentiment, thank you.

[@socire72]

In 2019, files became public showing that the FBI knew in the 1940s of allegations that Mountbatten was homosexual and a paedophile.[127] The FBI file on Mountbatten, begun after he took on the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia in 1944, describes Mountbatten and his wife Edwina as "persons of extremely low morals", and contains a claim by American author Elizabeth, Baroness Decies, that Mountbatten was known to be a homosexual and had "a perversion for young boys".[125][128] Norman Nield, Mountbatten's driver from 1942 to 1943, told the tabloid New Zealand Truth that he transported young boys aged 8 to 12 who had been procured for the Admiral to Mountbatten's official residence and was paid to keep quiet. Robin Bryans had also claimed to the Irish magazine Now that Mountbatten and Anthony Blunt, along with others, were part of a ring that engaged in homosexual orgies and procured boys in their first year at public schools such as the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. Former residents of the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast have asserted that they were trafficked to Mountbatten at Classiebawn Castle, his residence in Mullaghmore, County Sligo.

[@herb79]

That's one lucky Lobster!

[@oledevo]

That's GOTTA hurt!

[@MemoirsofaBasketcase]

The underwater shockwave of the explosion would have unfortunately gotten her too.

[@ConroyMatheson]

​@@MemoirsofaBasketcase thank God we have a marine biologist here. I'll definitely take some KZbin snots word for it

[@MemoirsofaBasketcase]

@@ConroyMatheson Are you ok dear?

[@nl-oc9ew]

​@MemoirsofaBasketcase doubtful. It wasn't a very powerful explosion, enough to destroy a small boat? Sure 50 lbs of explosives, and was not desigened to create shockwaves (like a depth charge would), most of the blast was transmitted into the boat, people and air. Little would be transmitted directly into the watter.

[@Lisa_MS64]

A close friend of mine spent her youth in London, waiting tables at Lord Mountbatten's club and he was genuinely kind and friendly with all the staff. Word reached him that a foreign dignatary had been particulary rude to my friend and Dickey made him apologize to "our little Irish girl". Despite his faults and mistakes, he deserves to remembered as someone capable of kindness to people who could never pay him back.

[@Lisa_MS64]

@@fallschirmjager0000 I don't doubt anything was possible, but my friend remembers him fondly. No one is all good or all bad.

[@exaudi33]

Gen. Aung San certainly thought so, as they worked out the handover in Burma. They got along very well.

[@josephk7954]

Reverence and condolence to all those who died in the troubles and their families. May this terrible blight never return to our country.

[@68blues]

I remember that day well. I was part of a Royal Navy ship refit. An officer walked up to my friend and i and told us about the assassination. He turned around…no more convo… walked away. Seems like yesterday.

[@vangroover1903]

Boy, it must have felt like he had just dropped a bomb........

[@mikestrohm3271]

I was a member of the Royal Guard when the Queen Mother was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports earlier in the year, we were told that if a major incident happened we would be top of the list to form whatever the ceremonial needs for that incident would be because of the training we had just completed. Subsequently we were the guard for Navy Days in Plymouth over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The news of Mountbattens murder came through on the last day of Navy Days and within an hour of marching off we were on coaches heading to HMS Excellent in Portsmouth where we began training to pull the funereal gun carriage for Mountbattens funeral.

[@RobK32]

Nobody cares

[@mikestrohm3271]

@@RobK32 Well I suppose when you make comments like that it's not surprising nobody cares what you think.

[@lizziedale905]

Never mind anyone else your story is fascinating! If you don’t mind answering how many hours of practice did you have to do when learning and staging out the route for the funeral gun carriage procession?

[@fpvDRE]

@@RobK32 i dont cos this guy served our country so hes a hero unlike you sat in mams spare room doing nothing with your life dude

[@mikestrohm3271]

@@lizziedale905 Its a pleasure to tell you about it! We found out the news of his death on Monday 27th August and that evening we were taken by coach to HMS Excellent in Portsmouth which was the Ceremonial Training Establishment for the Navy. The following day we were split into the three teams that were required which were Gun Carriage Crew (140 men) plus the Naval escort (150 men) and the bearer parties, plus associated Officers and Senior rates which meant, all in all there were over 350 personnel. The men were brought in from all over the country but as we from Plymouth had formed the Royal Guard for the Queen Mother we were the nucleus of the gun carriage crew. Also in the GCC were senior rates who wore junior rates uniform just for the honour of participating. After day one of sorting and sizing all the ratings we were taken every day of training to Eastney barracks in Portsmouth for the actual training - usually 9 hours a day - as Eastney had an archway the same size as Horseguards Arch which was important as the crew had to reduce ranks to pass through the arch so this was vital training for the day. We trained in Portsmouth with a practice gun carriage for just four days before moving en masse to London, staying at Pirbright barracks, for three rehearsals on 2nd, 3rd and 4th September marching the route with the gun carriage at 5 am on the first 2 days and 3 am on the 3rd day. Day of the funeral we were taken into London in five coaches at 6am with a full Police escort which, at some points, meant us being driven at top speed down the wrong side of dual carriageways, going through red traffic lights and even round roundabouts the wrong way. Finally being dropped off at the Royal Mews where the ceremonial gun carriage was prepared for the day. The wonderful personnel at the Royal Mews supplied us with copious quantities of tea and biscuits and opened up the mews for us to look round all the state carriages used by the Royal Family. The memory of the day of the funeral is still etched in my mind, the most significant memory is that, except for the sound of the band preceding us, everything was silent. No noise from the thousands of public who lined the streets to watch the funeral. After the coffin was taken into Westminster Abbey, we marched off round the corner where our coaches were waiting and were immediately whisked off back to Portsmouth.

[@alexevans6500]

Two innocent little boys died that day.

[@lucasgrey9794]

Mountbatten abused and murdered very many little boys throughout his life.

[@Yeggman]

Lord Mountbatten had a deep "understanding" of the plight of young boys.

[@forest8779]

​@@Yeggman😮

[@ravkohn1932]

And their murderer lives free today

[@BGodzillahhh757]

@@Yeggmanexcuse me?

[@jlr108]

We were in Ireland for our summer holiday, staying in a cottage in Listowel. First time we'd ever been - we'd taken the ferry from Pembroke to Cork the night before the Fastnet race disaster happened and it had not been a pleasant ferry trip what with how rough the sea had been. It was several days later that Mountbatten had been killed. I was 17 at the time, and I remember how every Irish person we met after this would apologise to us as if it was our own family member who had been killed and as if they felt personally responsible for our loss.

[@Damon-p9u]

They had no need to apologise.

[@Damon-p9u]

@02june80 Not terrorism, but a resistance movement.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

I’m glad to hear that. At the end of the day the IRA killed a lot of Irish people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[@jlr108]

@@Damon-p9u You're right. I found it a little bewildering at the time.

[@jhogan1960]

@@Damon-p9u Yes they did. Mountbatten was not a combatant. The IRA were terrorists.

[@RM-xu3dv]

India suffered under him, he was the last viceroy of India under British rule. He is the one who divided India and Pakistan and till now the Kashmir problem, India china border problems etc.

[@DailyShit.]

Every royal is a shitbag.

[@donaldbadowski6048]

Funny, I thought the Indians divided India. No matter what you think of him, please don't blame him for what Hindus and Muslims did to each other. He didn't put the swords in their hands.

[@h.calvert3165]

You are TOTALLY misinformed. He did everything he could to prevent partition, but he had only a ceremonial position & no real power, even though the Indians had asked him to stay on to be their first Governor General after serving as the last Viceroy. Also, when Gandhi was assassinated, he prevented a bloodbath by yelling to the crowd that it was a Hindu who killed him. Quick thinking on his part, as no one knew anything in the first moments. But because of his position, people assumed that he had insider information, & believed him. No Hindus in that huge crowd, or any watching television footage afterwards, turned on their Muslim neighbours for revenge. 🕉 ☪️

[@larkatdawn]

@@donaldbadowski6048 Sorry, but it was not a matter of mutual harassment. The moz attack attack attack. Always they are the aggressors, and don't even think about mentioning the Crusades. Took us 4 centuries to respond to the murder of pilgrims. In 1973 they killed 4 million Hindus. Over the centuries they killed 40 million Hindus. But his reputation was loud and clear and he lost respect in India. Without respect a politician or diplomat cannot function.

[@fais6964]

@@h.calvert3165not at all , the reason Punjabi is split and you had west and east Pakistan was precisely because of Mountbatten. There was a different plan in place before Mountbatten demand. Long story but if you read up on the history.

[@TheBlackBox_YouTube]

I have never in my life cared a bit about the British royal family. This is one of best series ever made though. Masterpiece on every level.

[@Diddy_claps_Meek_Mill]

They killed Tywin lannister.

[@Diddy_claps_Meek_Mill]

@@vangroover1903 I gotta go back and rewatch the series just because.

[@malahammer]

At least he wasn't on the bog this time.

[@Enrikr]

Tywin Lannister was less evil.

[@Thetrinitytruckbutcher]

and now the rain weep o'er his halls

[@Nautilus1972]

Mountbatten had the Prince Andrew streak in him. That’s why he was chosen. Allegedly.

[@ononewheellad]

And Republicans have that streak in them too it seems, all paedos together.

[@andrewg.carvill4596]

I remember reports that the Irish government at the time was quietly relieved at it being on record that Lord Mountbatten himself had refused (as unnecessary) an offer of 24 hour Irish Police surveillance, which would have included a watch on his boat making it near impossible to plant that bomb. Otherwise the Irish government/people and not just the IRA would have been blamed by British opinion (which is probably what the IRA wanted - i.e. a serious escalation of conflict).

[@kidsoxoxox]

Client of a Maltese high end boy brothel according to OSS and CIA reports. Australian Politicians and judges no better, 36x named in an official Police report during a 2018 Senate hearing as clients of a Sydney Boy brothel, one was a ex PM.

[@robertvictor3237]

Any links to that please?

[@schinderiapraemeturus6239]

Have come across similar reports concerning Mountbatten..he was a pedo. Those boys shouldn't have been on that boat, not a clean or honorable operation by the IRA. Do not involve civilians

[@NicoleAC-PhD]

Smh. Sick

[@melvinpenman1102]

Exactly

[@vangroover1903]

Was the brothel at least called Malteasers????

[@elainehernen286]

Sad for the innocent people who were with him😮

[@melchiorvulpius4799]

During this scene, all the royals are trying to kill things. Hmmmm.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

What else is there to do at Balmoral but hunt game and fish? Oh I suppose they could do Scottish dances (they do watch the Highland games)

[@Busy_Besom]

That wasn't an accident by the writer or director.

[@Tuathadana]

No the irony is that they were all out hunting and so was the IRA

[@kjj26k]

The hunters become the hunted.

[@hadacampanilla6976]

Una rappresentazione inequivocabile della Legge di Simultaneità di Causa ed Effetto

[@mickey875]

My mom visited England shortly after this happened and when she arrived at the airport in london and was going through customes two British police officers stripped searched her because she had an Irish surname. It didnt matter that she was American or that she was only half irish all that mattered is that she had an irish last name.

[@psammiad]

These IRA killers were largely funded by the USA.

[@onothankyou]

There was a lot of back and forth between US and Ireland during that time. Had some family involved in some of that stuff.

[@theotherside8258]

I know someone else similar happened to. It was based on their surname. The police were looking for specific Irish names.

[@svampen7782]

Well it makes sense. For all they knew she could've been born in USA to Irish parents and she could've been an Irish nationalist. Its hard to know when so many Americans are of Irish descent even if their ancestors left Ireland over 100-200 years prior.

[@theotherside8258]

@@svampen7782 A high proportion of English people have Irish descent and surnames and are even closer related than most than Irish Americans. In fact as you might imagine being so close to Ireland we always have a lot of Irish born residents too.

[@sandyjpatil]

In India all the Britishers would have got the same treatment, unfortunately Congress, Nehru, Gandhi and company saved them 😢

[@petercunningham5640]

If the lobster survived i would say his hearing would be badly impaired

[@vangroover1903]

I read he clawed his way out of the wreckage

[@racheljennings1688]

“ Ay?”

[@larkatdawn]

@@vangroover1903 Ouch!

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

Pretty sure lobsters are deaf by default

[@petercunningham5640]

Lobsters hear using cuticular "hairfans " prevalent along the entire length of their bodies .

[@hughofIreland]

I love how the two IRA men make off in a car registered in Great Britain. Nobody will notice!

[@julianrandall4232]

The attention to detail was perfect. All the Land Rovers were pre-1980s models too.

[@Kevlar10k]

Well they’re from Northern Ireland so I would be a uk registered car

[@hughofIreland]

@@Kevlar10k No. I said the car was registered in Great Britain; I didn’t say the UK. The registration on that car is a huge oversight. It’s a car registered in Great Britain, not in Ireland-north or south. They also wouldn’t have a car registered in the north: it would draw immediate attention.

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

The horrific sideburns are a dead giveaway I’m afraid

[@OldGreyMulletTest]

@@hughofIreland You win

[@brucemacallan6831]

If it was the IRA who were responsible, - I'm pretty sure the UK security services let them do it. His homosexual paedofilia was geting out of control. He was a liability.

[@vangroover1903]

So, a sort of backdoor solution...........phrasing aside.

[@malahammer]

Maybe the UK supplied the UK registered car :)

[@andywilliams7323]

There was nothing UK security services could do, short of conducting illegal surveillance in another Sovereign nation. Mountbatten was holidaying in Ireland. The Irish security service had gained intelligence the PIRA were planning a big show attack in Ireland and offer Mountbatten 24 hour surveillance and protection as a potential target. But Mountbatten refused.

[@jonathansteadman7935]

He was known to frequent the Kincora Boys School.

[@larkatdawn]

@@jonathansteadman7935 ...and engaging with Indian boys. Hence the contempt of both Hindus and Mos for him.

[@Ryxch.lym1]

I had the chance to visit Classiebawn Castle in County Sligo over the winter. A huge castle which sits on the edge of the cliffs. Magnificent views and sad history with the Mullaghmore village...

[@erinundra]

And my ancestors were starved out of Sligo. Starved.

[@fredperry523]

I was not aware that two innocent children were also killed - a terrible shame, terrible !

[@andywilliams7323]

All 7 people on the boat were innocent. All of them, including Lord Mountbatten, had never had any involvement whatsoever in the governance of Ireland or Northern Ireland. The attack was condemned in Ireland just as strongly as it was condemned in the UK.

[@socire72]

@@andywilliams7323In 2019, files became public showing that the FBI knew in the 1940s of allegations that Mountbatten was homosexual and a paedophile.[127] The FBI file on Mountbatten, begun after he took on the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia in 1944, describes Mountbatten and his wife Edwina as "persons of extremely low morals", and contains a claim by American author Elizabeth, Baroness Decies, that Mountbatten was known to be a homosexual and had "a perversion for young boys".[125][128] Norman Nield, Mountbatten's driver from 1942 to 1943, told the tabloid New Zealand Truth that he transported young boys aged 8 to 12 who had been procured for the Admiral to Mountbatten's official residence and was paid to keep quiet. Robin Bryans had also claimed to the Irish magazine Now that Mountbatten and Anthony Blunt, along with others, were part of a ring that engaged in homosexual orgies and procured boys in their first year at public schools such as the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. Former residents of the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast have asserted that they were trafficked to Mountbatten at Classiebawn Castle, his residence in Mullaghmore, County Sligo. "Innocent"

[@dessy-cs9ws]

@@andywilliams7323 How many innocent boys lives did Mountbottom ruin in his lifetime?

[@slome815]

@@dessy-cs9ws I don't get this, this is all over the comment section, but there's zero actual evidence for it. Hell, even authors that set out to prove his guilt can't find anything more then some gossip and rumours. No one knows for sure if it true or not, but you can say for sure there's no proof for it.

[@firstlast8258]

There is no shame in dying for freedom we should all be so lucky

[@Azazel2024]

It bothered me they murdered innocent people to get him. Have more guts and face him alone . Those boys didn't deserve that

[@traaztek1996]

The English should've left faster. Tiocfaidh ar la!

[@vkmb77]

@@traaztek1996 That's a cold and terrible response.

[@ridhoirvan1070]

@@traaztek1996 waa waaa we cant eat potatoes, imagine being conquered by boats, christ what fuckin losers

[@infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295]

As someone who is half Irish (Cork) half Italian even the mafia doesn’t go after children

[@joer9156]

​@@traaztek1996 so you could get on with filling the place up with Africans lol

[@minerran]

For those confused about the religious aspect (protestant vs. catholic) ... many Americans don't get it, its important to remember that the protestants in N. Ireland are generally loyal to the U.K. where the Church Of England (Obviously Protestant) reins supreme. The Republic Of Ireland is mostly Catholic. The Catholics in N. Ireland prefer joining the Irish Republic whereas the Protestants prefer the status quo of N. Ireland remaining part of the U.K. Hope I got that right, I'm not of Irish blood but have read a bit on it. So as others have said below, its really political at its core and the religious identity is kind of cursory. Cheers to all.

[@larkatdawn]

Thank you for your objectivity. As a Catholic I have experienced nothing but kindness and civility from the NI "Protestants" aka Loyalists. It is political, absolutely.

[@davetdowell]

The troubles weren't about the religious differences directly, they were about Northern Irish Catholics being treated badly (discriminated against) by Northern Irish Protestants. I'm English and recognise that when you treat 'other' citizens as inferior and discriminate against them you are bound to cause resentment, and that's a very big part of why the Protestant/Catholic divide became so caustic. Recent events on the Island seem to helped them arrive at the correct understanding that Irishmen are Irishmen irrelevant of the differences of how they worship and that all Irishmen should just be treated as Irishmen are treated. I can't tell you how pleased I am by that.

[@vercoda9997]

I'm the token Southerner in my Northern Irish office - the first person from outside the area to have worked there in more than 30 years, let alone someone who's also from the Republic, and an atheist, and gay (I know they know, but don't ask). Several of my colleagues are Loyalists who go to every Unionist thing going, and firmly identify as British; everyone else just leaves their identity as a background issue - just as people in the south leave their identity as a background matter - and despite our many differences, they've still been the nicest people I've ever worked with, and are very pleasant and civil to me. They also mock and insult their own Unionist leaders and politicians and parties as much as anyone else, and several have said that, Yes, they do believe that Northern Ireland will inevitably rejoin the Republic - but they just don't think it'll be soon, and they don't want any of the violence etc from The Troubles that half of us grew up with. It's a complex issue.

[@murpho999]

@@vercoda9997sorry but a Irish people don’t refer to themselves of the country being the south.

[@laoch5658]

Nothing to do with religion it's to do with culture and identity. British vs Irish

[@MrTac23]

Mountbatten was no innocent - remember that scene in 'Gandhi' where the British turn heavy machine guns on unarmed women & children demonstrating? That (and a lot of incidents like it) was on *his* orders...

[@krishnagopalsrivastava2084]

Are you out of your mind? That was General Dyer. Sometimes I pity why internet access is given to fools like you

[@Skunnt]

Charles Dance is one of my favorite actors loved him as Tywin and in this show.

[@lucamoulton6402]

strange they dont mention how mountbatten diddled all the little boys he invited out on the boat

[@occamraiser]

there's a reason for that, liar.

[@pixelpatter01]

@@occamraiser Lord Mountbottom had an FBI file started in 1944; back in the day when the FBI monitored foreign threat instead of acting as our governments political muscle. Just google it.

[@Mr.Booboo-ky6lm]

I mean regardless he's British, they throw a rager in hell when British people die except it's just they do the ice bucket challenge with molten lava

[@colinaitken4709]

@@occamraiser6 people have made allegations about Mountbatten, including 2 of his personal drivers. The FBI also had a file on him, and knew that he was a gay pedophile

[@tonypine3434]

Him and Ted heath

[@Papershields001]

The FBI certainly didn’t have nice things to say about Mountbatten.

[@SN-sz7kw]

Travesty for the innocents. Mountbatten, however, is a less sympathetic character. He got away with much that a less connected man would not.

[@crak6776]

Sligo mentioned! 🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@JonathanMullan25]

😃

[@manusdeburca]

British establishment has yet to officially acknowledge mountbattens connection with children

[@kirkwhite8600]

Care to elaborate for us Yanks who don't keep up with the Royals.

[@Champs67-sg1mi]

Look up mountbatton and kincora boys home.

[@Rallylabs]

@@Champs67-sg1mi literally one reporter made a claim with zero evidence. Most likely a load of bullshit.

[@morerobotwarscontent1476]

​@@kirkwhite8600 I thought you guys could read English. He had a connection to children. You think you can work that out?

[@lgbtes]

​@@morerobotwarscontent1476my gosh.. it was an honest question.. calm the f down girlfriend

[@Starryplough1916]

LORD MOUNTBOYS! 100s of kids were saved from him! What is it with the royals and buggering 🤣

[@bernardhayes4459]

I was in Ireland when this happened it rocked the country.

[@vangroover1903]

Those were explosive times............

[@murpho999]

No it didn’t. It rocked the boat only.

[@Andrew-eo2cw]

First time seeing somebody pull a lobster creel and stay dry

[@markp1549]

I'm not from the UK or Ireland but Mountbatten really should not have been there. He knew what was going on with the Troubles and should have stayed away. The poor kids though - inexcusable.

[@andywilliams7323]

He and his family had been holidaying there for years and were well-liked by the local community. He was long retired from government and had never been involved in any matters pertaining to the governance of Ireland or Northern Ireland. He, his mother, his daughter, son-in-law, two grandsons, and their friend, the boat boy, were all innocent. But he had been very cavalier refusing security, despite repeated warnings from both Ireland and the UK. The cowardly IRA men watched the boat leave the harbour and despite seeing and knowing that entirely innocent women and children were onboard triggered the bomb by remote control. The attack was widely condemned throughout Ireland, as well as in Britain.

[@socire72]

@@andywilliams7323In 2019, files became public showing that the FBI knew in the 1940s of allegations that Mountbatten was homosexual and a paedophile.[127] The FBI file on Mountbatten, begun after he took on the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia in 1944, describes Mountbatten and his wife Edwina as "persons of extremely low morals", and contains a claim by American author Elizabeth, Baroness Decies, that Mountbatten was known to be a homosexual and had "a perversion for young boys".[125][128] Norman Nield, Mountbatten's driver from 1942 to 1943, told the tabloid New Zealand Truth that he transported young boys aged 8 to 12 who had been procured for the Admiral to Mountbatten's official residence and was paid to keep quiet. Robin Bryans had also claimed to the Irish magazine Now that Mountbatten and Anthony Blunt, along with others, were part of a ring that engaged in homosexual orgies and procured boys in their first year at public schools such as the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. Former residents of the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast have asserted that they were trafficked to Mountbatten at Classiebawn Castle, his residence in Mullaghmore, County Sligo. Also, out of all the groups in the troubles, the British Army had the highest rate of murders of civilians. Second were the loyalist British, and third were the IRA

[@larkatdawn]

@@andywilliams7323 That is true but it was still extremely sensitive during that period. @markp1549 is correct in that.

[@nicmart]

That fate was too good for Mountbatten, the savage.

[@MajoradeMayhem]

But the boys were innocent.

[@Jesse-qy6ur]

@@MajoradeMayhem there are no Royal civilians.

[@appsb4537]

@@Jesse-qy6ur Paul Maxwell was a 15 year old from Enniskillen and wasn't royal, you sociopath.

[@firebird4269]

@@Jesse-qy6ur Get a life

[@bhaskarganguly7]

Cinematography is top notch

[@ishatonthecarpet]

There was nothing they could have done. The lobster was a made man and Mountbatten wasn't.

[@oyaami1874]

Mountbatten had a unsavoury reputation

[@marine102192]

he was a pedo

[@zzbudzz]

Like many of these so called Royals in England

[@doctor_gibbo1392]

Yes he was a big supporter of young sailors and was well known for happily taking a load of Able Seamen on his poop deck.

[@artanevilla]

He was a paedo.

[@jscanl]

@@doctor_gibbo1392 LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@twittertwice]

was it because Mountbatten has been accused of being a pedophile and at his home in Ireland abused boys from the Irish boys home where young boys were brought Mountbatten’s home. Both the Home’s director and his assistant were peophiles too and were sent to prison. Boys who are now grown men and were abused have tried to get a court hearing in UK, but will never happen because of the relationship to the Monarchy…

[@justonecornetto80]

Evidence?

[@andrewoliver8930]

​@justonecornetto80 "The 75-year-old (FBI) intelligence files describe Louis Mountbatten, the 1st Earl of Burma, and his wife Edwina as "persons of extremely low morals" and contain information suggesting that Lord Mountbatten was a pedophile with "a perversion for young boys." He introduced Sir Jimmy Savile to the Royal Family. Savile was never charged whilst alive, even though many had accused him. Royalty gets special protection as they're better than you.

[@thehellhound8582]

@@justonecornetto80 The fact that an FBI report described him ( he was named as supreme allied commander in Southeast Asia hence the american intrest), as "having a perversion for young boys" and his former driver Norman Nield admitted that he'd drive 8 to 12 year old boys that had been procured for him up to his mansion and admitted to having taken hush money. That and the MANY accusations of alleged former victims. Also the FBI had more files on him, but after that first file that called him a pedo was uncovered by a freedom of information request, a follow up request on all other documents relating to Mountbatten was denied as "all related documents have been destroyed at the request of the British government". Also Mountbatten was good friends with Jimmy Savile, like he was the one that introduced Savile to most of the royal family. But hey, atleast now we know where Andrew got it from

[@vittoriobollo3408]

@@thehellhound8582 Too right. But heaven forbid you should provide hard evidence to the likes of @justonecornetto80!

[@invisibleman4827]

​@thehellhound8582 And how, exactly is that relevant?

[@4NaturesStory]

Dang, scratching up that rifle barrel on the rock. 😢

[@r.b.somers2052]

I know! People don’t respect or care for things they haven’t earned.

[@jmc0075]

Was thinking the same 😂

[@4NaturesStory]

It made me cringe. 😬

[@reynaldoflores4522]

They probably have dozens of them .

[@4NaturesStory]

@@reynaldoflores4522 I don’t care if they have a warehouse full of AK’s they got from the USSR like on Lord of War movie. It’s a scratched barrel!! It’s cringe. 😥🍻🇺🇸

[@vaughanjones4149]

He was a predator of small boys! The Establishment protected him until he met his maker.

[@krgkrg1]

Evidence?

[@ReverZe83]

​@@krgkrg1 The young lads arses are torn asunder, can set up a viewing if you'd like?

[@vaughanjones4149]

Try and find Evidence against the Establishment- Royal Family! Politicians! High Ranking Judges! Corruption runs through there vaines. Pedophiles everywhere in Power!

[@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098]

@@krgkrg1his driver admitted it for one

[@ravanpee1325]

@@krgkrg1 They did exactly the same with Andrew

[@colloquialsoliloquy6391]

People who harm children ,should receive no sympathy

[@Immoralsalvage]

Maybe just fucking maybe the British shouldn't have forced their rule on people then. I DON'T see you crying for 1 million people that died as reult the British Genocidal Famine of the Irish. Payback is a bitch. We owe perfidious Albion more payback.

[@Willis_S]

Like the royals?

[@colloquialsoliloquy6391]

Yup ,in this case ,both the IRA and Royals are guilty.

[@growinsane9123]

The Royals don't intend to harm people but like nearly all of us, sometimes they do. The IRA intended to kill, which included the 'children' on the boat. There is a night and day difference between people who intend ill and those who fail to prevent it. It is what distinguishes civilization from anarchy and anybody who can't make that distinction has nothing useful to teach the world.

[@genociderjill]

​@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 IRA were just message senders.

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

The beauty of karma is this fellow, Lord Mountbatten was single handedly responsible for the partition of the Indian Subcontinent along with the Islamic uproar from the bloody Jinnah... Neither Lord Mountbatten leaved the Earth with a peaceful depart and neither Pakistan today is performing very economically well. THE LAW OF KARMA UPHOLDS.

[@caspramio]

Without Mountbatten, there will be no India or Pakistan. Perhaps you preferred that the Raj stayed? That could be a very interesting stance from an habitant of the sub continent.

[@justonecornetto80]

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was responsible for the partition of India because he wanted a separate Muslim state. Mountbatten merely chaired the negotiations between the parties and oversaw the British withdrawal.

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

@@caspramio "Without Mountbatten, there won't be the India and the Pakistan." What a lame statement without knowing the consequent situation of the British Empire just after the end of the WWII in the European land. The war crippled the empire's economy "crucially" militant uprising groups especially the "Azad Hind Fauj INA" significantly led to the putiny of the soldiers, regiments of the British Raj who revolted the very famous, "The Bombay Mutiny, 1946/47". It is although true that partition was inevitable or least to say, there was about to have a all scale out war on religious fundamentalism against Hindus and Muslims. The Britain Empire was unable to overshadow the rise of nationalism against the British Raj of Indians and to "protect" their image as a "saviour & bastion of righteous", the oppression and brutality the world had seen on Jews and others at the NAZI GERMANY, would have eventually portrayed them as the "Oppressor" of the Free-will just how the Yanks & the Irishs always had for you, Anglo-Saxons ;)

[@lukethomas.125]

Nice to see Tywin Lannister has found a new passtime

[@loyalbeaver9402]

OK! Now we know that Princess Anne assassinated Lord Mountbatten by sharpshooting at the boat's gas tank, triggering an explosion that blew him to bits. Thanks to the show's amazing scene editing, we finally get to learn the truth the damned government is trying to cover up.

[@AK-dr8we]

That's what I said. That's what it looks like. And the Queen was leading the group that assassinated him. I genuinely thought that was an IRA group sneaking close to the beach to shoot at the boat.

[@retrospective77]

@@AK-dr8we Jesus you're smart, ain't ya?

[@eddihaskell]

That is a ridiculous allegation.

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

Olivia Colman portrayed The Queen quite well

[@sushicourier]

Poor boys.

[@Echo30Mike]

Sgt Newman who recruited me at Derby main centre was murdered by the IRA. My mother around that time was working in social services and would go in the community to keep an eye on parents who had children that could be at some kind of risk. She'd often drop dinner 20 minutes before dishing up because the social workers wouldn't go into these homes without a gazillion pieces of paperwork and police escorts. One of the families that my mother was often visiting in the run up to that event was a house where it later transpired that 3 active IRA members were living. The amount of senseless murdering that they got away with - and had a clean sheet for most from the British government, yet the catholic politicians in NI are demanding criminal action against soldiers who were doing work sanctioned by the British government over 50 years ago. And they expect to be compensated. How many protestant men, women and children were murdered by the IRA without full accountability and compensation? How many mainland civilians were murdered too without full accountability and compensation? How many British servicemen and women were murdered without full accountability or compensation? The IRA killings created revenge for the Loyalists, their actions then created revenge for the Republicans and then it just goes full circle.

[@gerarddonovan4145]

And how many irish have the normans/english/British murdered and displaced since 1169? Im sorry to see any person die but if ye never came near us this would never have happened

[@ronbunn1349]

Completely disingenuous historical revisionism to imply the republicans started it. Republicanism is an inevitable response to colonialism and occupation. It’s not loyalist “revenge”, it’s reactionary counterrevolution.

[@iajanus]

hmm gee if the British don't like it when the Irish attack them then maybe they shouldn't have spent most of the last thousand years trying to wipe them out and stealing their land this is a tough one

[@thehappy_spearman1389]

​@@gerarddonovan4145The Irish nobles invited the English to help fight their wars and end their succession crisis.

[@gerarddonovan4145]

@@thehappy_spearman1389 Diarmait mac murchada was king of leinster and he asked henry the 2 for help and he did not speak for the whole country and if they were there to help why did they stay?

[@2Amend4Life]

The production quality of this show is second to none.

[@Vic-mv8iz]

And on the same day if my memory is right some british soldiers were ambushed by the ira and murderd but that was played down because of his killing

[@johnschannel449]

l feel sorry for the cabin boys on the boat

[@stuartlee6622]

They probably got f'd by LM

[@johnschannel449]

@@stuartlee6622 thats why they were onboard, l dont feel sorry for LM

[@larkatdawn]

@@johnschannel449 No escape.

[@CARLMOBLEY-b7q]

Her range as an actress is unlimited....

[@AK-dr8we]

This scene is confusing. Who did what exactly? It looked like the queen was leading an IRA group, and they were able to trigger a bomb explosion on Lord Mountbatten's boat by firing shots at the boat.

[@andywilliams7323]

It happened in County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. Depsite warnings Lord Mountbatten had refused security from both the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Consequently the boat was completely unguarded. 2 IRA men snook onboard and planted the bomb the night before. The next day, they watched the boat from the cliffs overlooking the bay. They waited until Lord Mountbatten walked within close proximity of the bomb's location and then detonated the bomb by remote control.

[@brianodriscoll2725]

Lizzie was an undercover provo 🇮🇪

[@johnmurdoch8534]

What about the dozen and a half queens own that got blown away that very day

[@charlesbaer9971]

What about them?

[@johnmurdoch8534]

@@charlesbaer9971 dont see anyone making noise on their behalf

[@charlesbaer9971]

@@johnmurdoch8534 Ok.

[@ellenchavez2043]

A thousand years of blood history in the British Isles. And nary a "Sorry".

[@LisaG442]

And Charles’ grieving was what brought Diana to him. Florence Nightingale syndrome. She was a sucker for other ppl’s pain. It’s what made her shine best

[@ER-uy7ct]

She needed to be needed. And Charles didn't NEED her, as he was a grown ass man when they got married.

[@maryclaremayo6157]

@@ER-uy7ct A grown ass simpering man child.

[@mitchminer2031]

Charles still IS NOT a grown ass man. Anyone that thinks he is, is a fool.

[@hilaryc3203]

OFFS, let it go.

[@hilaryc3203]

@@ER-uy7ct Just let it go FFS. Stop harping on other people's lives and worry about your own.

[@SigurdStormhand]

The IRA have always justified the murder of Mountbatten as though he was an active soldier or government official. In fact, by this point he was completely retired from military and government service and had been since 1964.

[@ronaldobrien6870]

Apparently, some members of the IRA leadership disapproved of the assassination at the time and felt it achieved nothing. Others have said since it was a mistake and should not have happened.

[@DwightStJohn-w1l]

@@ronaldobrien6870 I followed M. career through WW2 and his narration of the negotiation for partition of India. He was a major figure OUTSIDE of the UK and his rep. was Platinum. For anyone to think taking him out would accomplish anything but revulsion just blow me away. Greetings from Canada.

[@Toby_the_Glen]

They knew how mountbatten was a mentor to charles. Killing him was a way to destabilise the royal family. Very clever?

[@SigurdStormhand]

@@ronaldobrien6870 That may well be true, but the high-ranking members who were later publicly members of Sinn Fein and elected members of the Irish or Northern Irish parliaments have insisted it was justified up to the present.

[@ronaldobrien6870]

@@DwightStJohn-w1l For example, it greatly damaged Sinn Fein and the IRA in the US and funding quickly dried up. The fact that they killed two children as well repulsed everyone.

[@remstaler3444]

I can remember. This Day. I Was a 10 year old child in Germany

[@Stevenbfg1]

First British man in space.

[@TH3CAPN]

Second to the Irishman who got turned to mist

[@Nathan-bd6cq]

@@TH3CAPNDoesn’t even make sense

[@TH3CAPN]

@@Nathan-bd6cq maybe to ur frail little paddy mind aye

[@occamraiser]

ha ha fucking ha

[@andrewglynn1982]

​@@Vvv-1690And babies in prams

[@waymanirwin2539]

Mountbatten was pure evil

[@bridgecross]

The man who set off the bomb is now living a quiet life in County Monaghan, Ireland.

[@mattkoselowski-wh9vj]

Never watched this show, but watching now - the cinematography is superb. well done!

[@CurtYeomans-c7b]

It shoud be pointed out btw that Martin Charteris was no longer the Queen's private secretary when Lord Mountbatten died. He hadn't been her private secretary for nearly two years by that point.

[@davidhorsley2717]

Well said. The Queen's staff famously had to phone Whitehall to find out what had happened Mountbatten, her footman had heard the news on the radio before anyone at balmoral knew anything.

[@arkrazor354]

My dad was offered the job of being Lord Mountbatten's navigator after WWII. He passed so that he could marry my mom.

[@ravanpee1325]

You also don't want to support Eppstein and Co

[@solarprogeny6736]

is this british people's 9/11 story? seems like everyone in this comment section is begging to tell their anecdote of how they're related to a child predator

[@invisibleman4827]

​@@solarprogeny6736 I had no idea that Seamus Marley had so many relatives

[@arkrazor354]

@@solarprogeny6736 My dad was a Yank.

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

Who would’ve known aggressive negotiations would be so difficult

[@alexernst9448]

Cannot believe they had Charles Damce play Mountbatten.

[@vangroover1903]

He was also Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child, so many did not tears shed.

[@issimondias]

Why? Who would you have asked to play the role?

[@alexernst9448]

@@issimondias Someone less cool

[@vangroover1903]

@@issimondias He was Sardo Numpste, one of cinema's finest villains? I think he was also in one of those twilight teeny series as well

[@issimondias]

@@vangroover1903 exactly. He is an actor, why wouldn’t he play Lord Mountbatten?

[@taymur0804]

2:00 Anne sounded like an American 😂😂