Lord Mountbatten interview | Today |Thames Television |1969

The Earl Mountbatten Discusses the controversial 'THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA' programme. First transmitted in 20/03/1969
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[@h0ckeyd]

This is really interesting. Especially the bit where he says he was critisized for even putting a portion of military rations to the Indians during the Bengal famine.

[@Brian-wj7gb]

Agree, I never knew he stuck his head out to do famine relief (17:38 mark for anyone else interested). Before this interview, I had assumed he was all bad, now I see him in a balanced light. Maybe people were biased against him, considering how quickly the interviewer glosses over his famine relief and moves back to partition riots.

[@madgavin7568]

@@Brian-wj7gb Mountbatten is over-hated if you ask me. Even as a military commander he wasn't half as bad as his critics made him out to be, if anything he was quite decent.

[@tommyhall6695]

​@@Brian-wj7gbyou can tell it's not true his lips moved. He was more interested in what the flag would look like on his car, also what uniform he could design. The queen mother couldn't Stand him. A right chancer

[@scottmorley3672]

As British as he acts and sounds, he is still very German with German and Danish royal roots. If King George the fifth hadn't changed the royal family's name and disassociated from German titles, Mountbatten would be Prince Louis of Battenberg.

[@tommyhall6695]

Can't stand their cakes either

[@mystrength5640]

He was Narcissistic and Self opinionated and Arrogant ! He had a devastating Influence on Charles’s life, in-that he encouraged Charles to have extra marital affairs... In his future life! (As he had done).....A positive is that he was Mother and Father to his daughters, When Edwina was not around, for months on end.... Their Daughters were brought up by Nannies and Carers!

[@afonsosilvestre7626]

No he was a simply a very ambitious man witch is good that is what made him very intelligent. He choose to be a mentor to Charles because Charles needed to have a grandfather. But king George was dead so lord Mountbatten acted as a grandfather

[@georgew2014]

Royals having affairs pre-dated Mountbatten by several centuries. As for having nannies, that was a very old tradition.

[@tommyhall6695]

​@@georgew2014typical chinless wonder, incompetent prick.

[@startracker5895]

He shares mannerisms of Prince Charles.

[@johnking5174]

He was the uncle of Prince Charles father Prince Philip, so Prince Charles great-uncle.

[@taniaearle4457]

He was his favorite. His much beloved Uncle.

[@uglycustard1]

Probably introduced him to incest and homosexuality.

[@chahinebinsaleh6954]

Well, he raised Prince Charles...

[@bobgarr6246]

If so, it would be the other way around.

[@debbystardust]

Many of my good decisions were lovely accidents. How very, very un-Mountbatten of me.

[@AnandRajappan]

India got independence because British colonial rulers were not having the strength to hold it back, in reality. The fact on ground is something that can't be ignored and hidden for too long. @14:54 to @16:07 - a great eye-opener for many.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

India got independence because Britain kept its promise it made to them in the war.

[@AnandRajappan]

@@lyndoncmp5751 only foolish will believe that. What happened for WW I then?!

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@AnandRajappan Britain didnt promise India independence in WW1. In WW2 they did, and kept to their word. Still today some Indians cry Britain left them too soon after WW2 . They wanted the British gone, but only when THEY said so.😂 😂.

[@AnandRajappan]

@@lyndoncmp5751 what did they promise in WW1 then?!

[@garyyoung9085]

Britain could no longer afford to administer India this was Atlees explanation to the hurried independence. His instruction to Mountbatten "Get us out of India at the soonest possible date".

[@judasmoses5915]

Charles dance did a splendid job

[@maldarchives7995]

Really? I feel like the accent is different? Or is it just their voices...

[@jonnnyren6245]

@@maldarchives7995 maybe the voice.

[@UNIT294]

He nailed the role of Mountbatten.

[@sputnik8407]

How ridiculous that people can't respect that they will not always be right . Human nature is to make mistakes , but the fear of being judged , rejected or so inferior ...can make a person to live with such denial . To be a great man is to be able to accept ones mistakes .

[@roseandlilac]

He didn't make decisions alone or in a vacuum, which he explains.

[@melanie7781]

People on the outside of a situation can always find fault with those on the inside of a situation while it is in action. Hindsight is wonderful thing for those who have never faced what people in the past did. Retrospect one beating themselves up over something they can't changed, which I find a foolish endeavor, wasting huge amounts of time and thought. You look over past actions, try fix what you can, if you can, if not, you just try to not make the same mistakes again in future situations. People complex beings, we are all individuals who have faults and good things about us.

[@user-zy3zd3sx2d]

Retrospect is invaluable where learning lessons is concerned. Don't slam retrospect

[@roseandlilac]

The one thing Mountbatten doesn't say is he was doing his duty. It's not like he volunteered for all the commands he was given; he didn't step up and say, "I'm the best. Let me do it." He was chosen because of his record. He was asked, or ordered, to fulfill the roles he did.

[@truthwar4567]

why reporters don't ask questions like this!?

[@aldaharrison4882]

Normal public doesn't really understand real history

[@MelancoliaI]

Great Mountbatten was a maker and shaper of history

[@oneilbuchanan8377]

Charles biggest role model

[@ffspablo8739]

Apparently he liked young boys from Kincora

[@Buttlands]

Alas, I believe that's true.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

He would have had to get in line behind all the Catholic priests though.

[@garyyoung9085]

The historic enquiry on institutional abuse in Northern Ireland failed to connect him or Anthony Blunt to Kincora.

[@chriswilson8062]

Liked the little boys I hear.....

[@scottgarver5782]

Teenage boys in uniform. Scouts, school uniforms, etc.......

[@richardkirk5098]

This is a truly extraordinary man who was at the center of many great events.

[@melgrant7404]

Like elm guest house

[@skilso]

Richard Kirk but was he the right man

[@moonlightbae6143]

Hes was a pedophile??

[@CrackinJacks138]

He was a child abuser and disgusting person

[@feistyflipflop4567]

FBI had files on this guy......😳

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

The FBI have files on me too

[@feistyflipflop4567]

@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Hopefully not for the same reason!

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

@@feistyflipflop4567 the FBI spies on everyone

[@fillipo1972]

The files on him are reportedly voluminoua, seedy and criminal

[@peanut25john]

The British class system in all its glory ‘

[@judasmoses5915]

British? He’s German ..changed their name from batternberg to Mountbatten.

[@pennyhobbs7267]

@@judasmoses5915 born in England!!

[@michaelallan5211]

@@c.r.stewart9434 There’s certainly not any evidence to suggest so.

[@maku8075]

@@judasmoses5915 all Anglo-Saxon are German all descendents from Germanic tribes,

[@gingerbaker4390]

@@maku8075 Anglo derived . Scandanavian. Germans descended from slavic tribes

[@aldaharrison4882]

Dicky is controversial. But heroic.

[@V8_screw_electric_cars]

That last episode they were talking about was very sad as it was filmed in Ireland and there was a scene where he called his grandson that was killed with him in that terrorist attack.

[@johnking5174]

Ten years later in 1979

[@388Caroline]

John King I’m Irish and ashamed that the hedonistic ira murdered him and his family!

[@helenmcclay2622]

But it's okay for them to bomb,pillage,plunder and rape and blood spill anyone or anywhere they take a liking and fancy to because they feel it's their birthright? Right..such a strange notion and deranged perspective to have...unbalanced and indifferent to others plight but a nonce has special treatment...it's a shame the truth is such a hard concept to grasp for many. 🙄

[@jojobean9260]

@@388Caroline I'm Irish and I'm ashamed of you ya munter

[@jojobean9260]

@Jack The Film Fanatic They vote for Sein Fein because no one represented them and for the same reason the protestants vote for the DUP... I take it you know nothing about Northern Ireland

[@clintgreggory2549]

It strikes me as curious today to see this. Lord Mountbatten did not have to spend his prewar years working in the RN , doing his best to improve and advance the technical bits and the power of the Navy. He was born a Prince, his wife Edwina was one of the wealthiest heiresses in the world . They were very grand but Louis gave his life to his nation. Edwina , at the outbreak of war put away her travels and eccentricities to save jews and to reject , with her husband the appeasement sentiments held by many of their class. They sent their 2 girls to America due to her Jewish heritage in case the worst happened. Both Edwina and Louis worked heroically , if not perfectly during the war for the greater good. Winston called him the man who gave away India , but India wanted independence. All people , The great or tge unknown can be called into question a near century later. To me he is a war hero , beloved by those who served under him and despised for his Royal connections.

[@davidcarrington5654]

Spot-on, mate. Wholly agree with your comment. As a veteran RN officer, I personally admire Lord Mountbatten. A royal with a progressive and outgoing nature, he possessed a real charisma - a quality some dismiss as egoism. Whatever his human imperfections, he was an towering figure in British history.

[@dancostello6465]

Didn't Mountbatten have the series designed and written by Mountbatten. He was doing image management.

[@Robertz1986]

Good man, from an age when the Brits had spine.

[@Robertz1986]

@jemimallah I am neutral on the conflict in Northern Ireland, but the sort of people who hide explosives to intentionally blow up old men, old women, and children who are peacefully vacationing are merely terrorist scumbags. To murder a vacationing family that are guests in one's country (as these murders occurred in Ireland and not Northern Ireland) was a shameful moment for the Republic of Ireland, and the Irish government of the time admitted feeling deeply ashamed and embarrassed by this.

[@stansirlmkhope2312]

How do they know Mountbatten had dandruff? They found his head and shoulders on the beach

[@Satansassassin.-1690--]

😂

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Old joke, stolen from Jaws. I heard this nearly fifty years ago.

[@amanielwolde]

Lord Mountbatten planned the meeting between the young Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece. He was pennyless but Lord Mountbatten who was P.Philip uncle, wanted to add his name Mountbatten to the Royal family name, Windsor. He finally succeed. From what i found in Books, the establishment hated him, his arrogance, his accent, his ambitions for him, Prince Philip, for his family members, his grand-daughter who he pushed in Prince Charles arms. Of course, the stories about his wife being bisexual, allegedely him to, without forgeting the theories that he was involved with orphenages with History of abuse. When his wife died and was dropped in the sea, Queen Mother said " She Always loved midnight baths in the sea !", They hated each others.

[@misskeirstin6355]

How did you know about the allegations before it was public?

[@amanielwolde]

@@misskeirstin6355 All allegations were already public, i watched documents here on KZbin. The older infos came from Kitty Kelley "The Royals"(1997) first edition.

[@Historelic]

Your biggest mistake was the way you conducted the partition of India, the disputes still persist, millions have and are suffering to this day

[@SDYUchgmywrld]

Mountbatten actually wanted a Unified India and tried to convince Jinnah of a Unified India. It was Jinnah and the All India Muslim League who wanted a partition of India, as 87.5 percent of Muslims voted for the AIML in the General Election of 1945. The partition of India is the responsibility of the Muslims, not the British. To quote Ambedkar. “Allegiance of a Muslim does not rest on his domicile in the country which is his but on the faith to which he belongs. To the Muslim ibi bene ibi patria [Where it is well with me, there is my country] is unthinkable. Wherever there is the rule of Islam, there is his own country. In other words, Islam can never allow a true Muslim to adopt India as his motherland and regard a Hindu as his kith and kin.” - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

[@lugano1999]

The man clearly never knew what the word "introspection" meant.

[@asepramadhani658]

Finally, brothers & sisters, whatever is true.whatever is noble.whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovelv, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy.think about these things.

[@zchataabba6490]

Philippines something. Just had a conversation with a friend yesterday evening and she quoted the verse :)

[@inquisitive2270]

Lord Mountbatten directly or indirectly through his errors was responsible for the death of several thousands.

[@mrsll4892]

He was also directly or indirectly responsible for saving thousands due to his wartime service and his decisions on India.

[@tyger3170]

While true, I think the fault lies more with the smooth brain moron who drew up the borders and the then Indian government for not realising what the Pakistan project was Muslim Hindu voilence was almost unavoidable

[@radfootomg581]

@@tyger3170 he influenced the drawing of the borders though?

[@tyger3170]

@@radfootomg581 idk Depends on the work style honestly, but yeah I don't think he had nothing to do with it

[@radfootomg581]

@@tyger3170 Gurdaspur and Ferozepur were originally meant to be parts of Pakistan (according to Radcliffe) but Mountbatten altered his decision so that India could had direct access to Kashmir (through Gurdaspur) and the water works of the Ravi and Sutlej (Ferozepur) which were detrimental to the development of Pakistan. To learn more about it I recommend reading Shameful Flight, it’s a short and informative read that discusses the events of Partition.

[@aldaharrison4882]

Twenty th century. Was astonishing and he indeed was heroic in historic terms

[@amcdonal86VT]

Jesus they just talk in such generalities. Wtf are they even talking about? Challenge him on a specific decision or action!

[@gerardmcmullan3413]

what a lovely man he was a decent man. Ira he actually wanted a united ireland

[@388Caroline]

Lacey Langton did he really?? Or is that a joke?

[@helenmcclay2622]

He had boy's on the boat he was blown up on...no loss at all...even the FBI files on him having a penchant for 'young boy's' and not to mention his pornographic collection is so disturbing and disgusting it's locked away from the public eye in the British museum..these "people" aren't what most think they are.

[@BM-hx5xi]

His grandsons were on the boat with him

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

He really wasn’t. He was a filthy paedophile. He was sick, twisted and evil.

[@clareb8015]

@ Helen McClay that disgusting book should be destroyed. Why the British Museum has it I will never know. It will never ever be revealed to the public for obvious reasons.

[@sudarshan3965]

He was only British officer to receive love from Indians. He will always be remembered

[@roseandlilac]

There was an amazing historic moment when a group of violently angry protestors saw Dickie and Edwina appear at the top of a rise in front of them, and they all stopped yelling violently and started cheering ecstatically, simply at the sight of them. Miraculous.

[@sudarshan3965]

@@roseandlilac where can I read about this incident

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Sudarshan - Lady Edwina received a great deal more of it than “Uncle Dickie” ever did...

[@rodriguesroshan]

​@@EMD1792 The IRA were cowards, shame on them

[@roscomeon3965]

​@@EMD1792disgusting comment. May he rest in peace

[@sumitvashistha6865]

GDP ( PPP ) - January 2020 UK = $ 3.3 trillion India = $ 12 trillion

[@joaofernandes4769]

Lets hope no English man will respond with the GDP ... per capita.

[@robertfarrell6479]

India has over a billion people, if it didn't have a higher GDP, it would be embarrassing.

[@prashantchaudhar1492]

We are rising...we will work even harder to get our rightful place .... Meanwhile there would be some equity and justice in the policies of british govt under rishi sunak.... Probably...rishi sunak is the best thing happened to british within u5 years of indepedendece from despotic british rule.

[@jemimallah2591]

BOOM

[@vangroover1903]

Like him or not, he did well here. You could say he blew this one out of the water, ............................but for the phrasing.

[@castelodeossos3947]

How to turn the opportunity to conduct a great interview with a great man into mere pettiness and fault-finding, and to all appearances not listening to a word the man says.

[@SrimanArcharyaJBC]

Lord Mountbatten was one of the Unsung heros of the colonial days everyone loved him as it might of been Lord Mountbatten that would of taken the throne in the UK until the English public decide on if they want a monarchy or not. 🕉🔺➕

[@rohanmishra3117]

Are you an Indian?

[@syhuhjk]

@@rohanmishra3117 maybe fake one

[@johnking5174]

1:10 - "the audience enormous" - hardly surprising back in 1969 when there was only two proper full time TV stations in the UK, BBC 1 and ITV and a part time BBC 2 channel - so not much choice for people back then, of course millions would watch.

[@clerieginus]

He sounds like Prince Charles...

[@arieschick1]

Vice versa

[@charleskristiansson1296]

Battenberg is his real name.

[@jesperrasmussen510]

Do you "share" the Windsors real name everytine they are mentioned..?

[@khiggins8733]

I love a slice of Battenberg with my tea

[@cindymaceda2999]

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg is King Charles’s real family name. His father was Danish & German by blood.

[@funDAYsmiling]

If you watch video, Lord (uncle Dicky), Mountbatten leaving India, and, 10,000s of people chasing him, happily, as is "somewhat shown" in movie "Viceroy's House" (he was A GREAT Viceroy). My great-great-grandpa and grandma, Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, respectively, II Emperor and Empress of India, are how we're connected. They REALLY vilified him from "doing his job" which WAS TO PROVIDE A PEACEFUL TRANSITION.

[@ryanklamot]

I am descended from Queen Victoria as well. Cheers

[@adinamedrea5303]

I never heard of this man until I found an old "manuscript" if that is the right word, edited in 1947 in New Delhi by order of Lord Mountbatten with all the Mountbatten (Battenberg) family tree, it is a lot of pages with just names, grandparents, nephews etc. And in the start of this album there is written this book was ordered by Lord Mountbatten for his children and nephews and it says the editor's note "Not to be sold" and there is a note written in crayon in german language "This was a gift to my aunt" or something like that, but it's not all inteligible. It is a very interesting piece of history. I can't imagine how this book got to a second hand shop in Romania and thus to me. So interesting how life is... I dont think Lord Mountbatten ever thought his book would end up in the hands of a romanian IT employee woman who is also a mother and in her search of recipe and cooking books found also his manuscript in a second hand shop that brings stuff weekly from Germany.

[@marlowe4105]

What are all these descendants of Queen Victoria doing in this comment section? There are only 276 living great-great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. What exactly is your lineage from her?

[@seventhuser904]

Partition of India was a disaster. Millions died.

[@mortalclown3812]

The interviewer doesn't quite get through. Better that he would shriek, 'But your hubris, ya bloody bastard! And that's just for starters...'

[@kimsherlock8969]

My Mother married a driver military order of army for Mountbatten in the 2nd World War... I believe in Hong Kong most likely Burma....... Well one can see this was a great opportunity to survive ordinary life driving a LORDSHIP

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

It was probably Burma, its where the British army was mostly active in ww2, my great grandfather was an RAF medic in Burma

[@kimsherlock8969]

@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Lord Mount Batten 😳 Had huge success sociably. What What What ?

[@carolking6355]

I can’t help seeing him as pompous and arrogant. It must be nice to be so certain of yourself. His likeness toPrince Charles is probably inherited but Charles is a kindly person with no arrogance.

[@bobgarr6246]

You must be joking about Charles

[@charleswatson1093]

@@bobgarr6246 Why do you disagree?

[@PhiI93]

@@charleswatson1093 Cause he's an arrogant twat, that's why

[@personl7949]

@@PhiI93 🤣🤣👍

[@georgew2014]

Mountbatten came of age when Britain still had an empire. What we see as arrogance was fairly common. In other words, he was a man of his time. I think he realized that, given what he said about Chirchill being stuck with an even older notion of empire.

[@skilso]

Interesting to see that even in 1969, there was so much toadying deference and forelock tugging to the big I am swaggering multi uniformed Mountbatten. He had the ego of George Patton and Bernard Montgomery combined. But Patton and Montgomery got down in the thick of it. For my own part I simply cannot believe he did not know he was pompous. I bet his grim wife told him he was a pompous ass. I wonder how he would have dealt with being interviewed by Andrew Neil.

[@ulrichlehnhardt4293]

He was extremely attractive when he was young.

[@dessy-cs9ws]

And attracted to young boys.

[@SrimanArcharyaJBC]

During this era in the west the church population with brown eyes where seeing and interpreting the British monarchy as a company. As there where more population that worked for there own governments. These types of old interviews are like seeing the ceo of Apple in a interview. Westminster celebrates logos made by my family representing my ancient family in the UK as is not part of the monarchy. Winston Churchill was an idiot and got sacked as he did more tv and newspaper headlines than work in government. The con did unveiling itself. God is real bad the people say and I require my kingdom now🕉🔺➕

[@SrimanArcharyaJBC]

@@serge3875 yes English is made of comprehension there and their are two different Atar Values in vocal speech it makes no sense and what what I have read in literature there is no Atar value so I can use as I want. Thanks for your kind words. ⚡️🤴🏽🕉🔺➕

[@SrimanArcharyaJBC]

@@serge3875 thanks to my ancestor everyone in the uk is living off benefits and my heritage money so guess I’ve done well if you follow accounting or criticism correctness. ⚡️🤴🏽🕉🔺➕

[@matthewstavrowsky9998]

This is a truly remarkable man. What an amazing life. The carping reporters are typical of the sort that seem to dislike anybody extraordinary.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

He was a filthy nonce you utter moron

[@bwoww13]

Idiot he was a pedophile. Do a little research before you call someone remarkable or amazing...imbecile

He knew all about reputational risk, before it was invented!

[@aleempervaiz8789]

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

[@emperorhirohito7924]

Pakistan is itself an issue.We still not accept that we have different nationalities now

[@idrissaebrahim3261]

True, a blot on history

[@aleempervaiz8789]

@@idrissaebrahim3261: Go through my reply.

[@idrissaebrahim3261]

@@aleempervaiz8789 I read it

[@user-nc8wv7wf1s]

I think it would be wrong to blame Nehru. He always wanted good for Kashmiri people. The successive governments after Nehru made all the trouble; Modi being the biggest disaster. Pakistan is too to be blamed. Even Indians feel bad seeing Kashmir suffer.

[@user-lu9ct3rc9r]

I loved him

[@dessy-cs9ws]

If you are young enough, he would have 'loved 'you too.

[@sukilee73]

Don’t please others.

[@stephenbelcher4376]

Plimsoles Sir

[@terrystephens1102]

Huge advantage to be a blood relative of the monarch - Mountbatten was a self-serving opportunist, always looking for the spotlight. He was the grandfather and confidant that Charles needed, as Phillip had no time for his timid son.

[@Robertz1986]

50 years later, and he was definitely right.

[@user-fg9vr7mk5z]

he was responsible for thousands of deaths in india

[@Robertz1986]

@@user-fg9vr7mk5z That isn't clear at all. What is your basis for the claim? He argues in this video that he was not responsible.

[@user-fg9vr7mk5z]

@@Robertz1986 Because he was the last viceroy of India. He was responsible for planning the partition of India, and no planning went into it at all, which resulted in the thousands of deaths of those crossing the borders. And yeah, of course he's going to deny it, that's what people in positions of power do when things go wrong. Obviously if all it takes for him to mitigate blame is to say that he wasn't responsible he's going to do it because it evidently works.

[@Robertz1986]

How is he to blame for the violence of others, especially as he was thrown on the job after everything was falling apart? The Indians and Muslims need to own that chapter of history.

[@user-fg9vr7mk5z]

@@Robertz1986 Because it was his job. He shouldn't have taken it if he wasn't up to it.Muslims and Indians don't own that chapter of history because they weren't in charge of the country at that time. Use your brain.

[@HisgGalore]

here

[@binniparis8024]

A leader can not be responsible for the violence of individuals - could anyone have forseen the violence between religions? To have forseen the mass refugee crisis? Xx

[@stephenbelcher4376]

Sir?

[@msmolyansky]

What a great man he was. I can't believe reporters were so annoying back then. The goofy reporter is trying so hard to find his faults .

[@sebastianvella8992]

I THINK CHURCHILL ONCE DESCRIBED HIM AS MASTER OF DISASTER.

[@jojobean9260]

Churchill was an alcoholic so who cares what that obese turd thought

[@harveyspecter1855]

churchill was far worse than mountbatten. Look at the balls churchill had lol to talk about mountbatten knowing he was far worse XD

[@anuradhainamdar8967]

I am sorry you have this opinion, in fact if he sounds pompous even Churchill was pompous. And Churchill was certainly against his decision to grant India independence as its Viceroy.

[@sebastianvella8992]

@@anuradhainamdar8967 It is not how he sounds it is what he did that made Churchill describe him as master of disaster and I think he described him as such before he was India's Viceroy. The way he sounds has no bearing at all on a man's character.

[@anuradhainamdar8967]

@@sebastianvella8992 I have read a biography of Louis Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler and so also have of Sir Winston Churchill by Philip Ziegler, Sir Martin Gilbert and Lord Roy Jenkins but 😏😊 because I do not remember actually anything .Yet some days ago was seeing a interview of Sir Martin Gilbert on book TV C- Span ( USA) and Sir Gilbert said that Churchill was opposed to the idea of giving India independence because he wanted to handle it properly and a avoid and therefore it could have been the decision by Mountbatten to grant India Independence which prompted him to call Mountbatten a disaster. Yet I think if Churchill would have been on ground zero in India as Mountbatten was he would have understood why it was essential for granting India Independence even at the cost of bifurcation and bloody carnage that followed. Because I been a history student as well as having read Dr.Guha biographies on Gandhi and how he had made himself a very influential figure through extreme/ various techniques of civil disobedience. In fact Indian leaders were demanding freedom just before the second world war but when it began even Gandhi was ready to help British government inspite of the fact that Churchill who abhorred Gandhi's tactics was the P.M. ,but when after the gruesome second world war and India wasn't given independence the Independence struggle became fiercer and so Louis Mountbatten would surely be sympathetic to Indian views, closer to Nehru and Gandhi and so gave India it's independence, which unfortunately Churchill couldn't tolerate. This Sebastian is my evaluation of the situation after the war, and to point out to you that even Churchill was a man of disaster his Dardanelle Campaign was a disaster for which he had to resign from the Admiralty and even though Great Britain did win the war under his premiership he was defeated in the civic elections held just after the war and it was a unbelievable experience for him.

[@col.waltervonschonkopf69]

He was a butcher! He didn't let the Indian military be prepared for anticipated disturbances in the Punjab around the time of Partition.

[@kosiekoos9408]

The English dont look masculine like this. This guy is german.

[@dancostello6465]

Is a Battenberg.

[@beatlelu1]

Luke Warmeth ? ?

[@youarewhatyouare]

Looks like he didn't have dandruff then

[@fillipo1972]

You refer to "Head & Shoulders" if im not mistaken lol

[@stutisrivastava4431]

He messed up the partition of India.... Big big time.... Killing 1 million people just because of his haste to exit India.

Would have happened anyway but do not blame the West just to be WOKE. NOW, Mountbottom was a fool, not only about India.

Learn English it is HASTE

[@stutisrivastava4431]

@ this is not to appear WOKE! I have watched and read several interviews and articles on the Partition of India. It was known that partition is inevitable. But the question is why have Mr. Radcliffe, an Englishman with no demographic or cultural knowledge of India, draw the line of partition in matter of months rather than the planned 5 years. Mountbatten declared independence in the two new Nations without revealing the line of Partition and exited India so that the British don't have to deal with the aftermath.

[@stutisrivastava4431]

@ agreed typo

[@ThrowEverything]

Wasn’t his fault

[@TheAbirindia]

Churchill created the famine by taking away all the rice... 4.3 million Bengalis died... The scene in Calcutta road was no better than a concentration camp with dead bodies all over the places... When Churchill received a telegram requesting him to let enter some of the ships carrying rice to Calcutta port he replied "Why Gandhi is not dead?" Regarding the Transfer of Power, they had to as because of Netaji and INA they lost control over the Indian Army...

[@rohanmishra3117]

👍

[@brymorian]

Churchill was a complete curmudgeon. Why they keep eulogising him as the greatest in Englishman is crap. He was half Ameriacan

[@TheAbirindia]

@@KaidenKnox11 Netaji Lead the Army created by Rasbihari Bose and made the death blow on British Imperialism!! If he could come back and lead India, India would have been 30 years ahead. India would never join the commonwealth and he would have definitely brought back all the looted things from Britain !

[@jalaneperry7643]

I went to his ancestorial home Broadlands in 1982 with my mom After they televised his funeral He was killed By a car bomb planted by the IRA Such a sad loss he was wonderful I remember crying after i watched His funeral on tv

[@keithhodgson6489]

It was a boat bomb.

[@dawnburke2756]

A great man yes indeed .... you cried for a pedophile .... the irish children could tell many a story about Mountbottom !

[@Luton-Mick]

Mi5 dropped dime to the IRA as he was loose cannon that kept meticulous records.

[@SAGHAJAR]

The butcher of Burma.

[@ZacharyCusanelli]

This didn't age well.

[@napoleonbonaparte5463]

What a wonderful man Mountbatten was

[@SJTRADESFUTURES]

he was a nonce 🤮

[@vangroover1903]

As the kids might say, "He was the bomb!"

[@napoleonbonaparte5463]

Almost poetic

[@stephenbelcher4376]

Dieppe

[@vangroover1903]

He had an explosive military record.

[@federicopietra1401]

What a charme

[@GurvinderSingh-pg5bc]

Yah video Hindi mein dikhao

[@scarecrow9474]

Learn some english

[@sahi07]

We r indians n also speak various types lagenge

[@scarecrow9474]

@@sahi07 yeah lmao. I can see that

[@kerbalindustries4899]

RULE BRITTANIA you must!!!!!

[@sumitvashistha6865]

Poor UK.

[@limita9961]

No Pedo of Windsor

[@Blissblizzard]

Gollum reference?

[@andykane9866]

The first British man in space

[@Luton-Mick]

That's harsh old boy 🤣

[@ambaiste]

gone fishing

[@prashantchaudhar1492]

Indian invasion of hyderabad ....what ...😂😂😂 To simply put...its like british invading manchester ..or any other big city... Thank god the real history is coming out...and hippocracies of british colonisers coming out...

[@robmorrissey7816]

Wrongun and everyone knows it.

[@bquinn4533]

Why did the royals name a child after him?

[@carolking6355]

As an historian I can only say he was self serving his whole life. He wanted the Windsor’s to change their name to Mountbatten. He wanted to rule Britain.

[@The_Antiquary]

Yay another biased historian with a grudge.

[@lsunav]

And what is wrong with that? I have never understood the Mountbatten hate. I have read several books where comments like yours come up. How wasn’t self serving in that world?

[@ryanquinn5557]

@Adam GB exactly

[@nerdysportsfan9060]

@isunav exactly people same to hate with such an extreme passion and totally discount all the great things he did.

[@southafricandominion]

Journalists disgust me

[@uglycustard1]

southafricandominion yes they’re all lazy bastards just repeating mainstream everything instead digging for the truth.

[@Lara-yp5oc]

So sad 😞 when he and his grandson were murdered.

[@rpb907]

He sounds totally ignorant

[@david-th225]

He sounds very well educated.... and he was. ( It was the Indians who were ignorant savages. They still are )

[@user-kk5kr5ys6i]

😶☹Partition.

[@misschickaroo]

Sick child abuser.

[@keithhodgson6489]

Idiot

[@joaofernandes4769]

Did he abuse you?

[@mujeeburrehman2450]

So sorry to do like this now in space.

[@mujeeburrehman2450]

To/ I am not intriguing in spaCE

[@wolfblitzer1981]

Was he gay one wonders or something more sinister

[@rebeccaisabella9721]

She was falling in love with his cousin Maria Nikolaevna and wish he could married her

[@seymourbutts2530]

One does wonder. His wife slept with a ton of other people. Was he banging her enough?

[@wolfblitzer1981]

@@seymourbutts2530 from rumours he was sailing on the good ship lollipop 😂

[@rkpopinions1193]

I don't feel the British accent in his English. Is it because he stayed out of Britain for a considerable part of his life ?

[@nomadyogaman3034]

That is a 110% a British accent.

[@josueewald9664]

It’s a “queens English” accent which is considered to be proper English. It’s not as heavy as the stereotype British accent

You have a tin ear!!

[@Thealoysian]

Actually is very clipped and very RP, but not in a silly posh way, whatever they say it is a very manly posh RP.

[@TheCandiceWang]

Maybe it sounds strange bc it's that particular peculiar, very specific type of queens english accent. They all had it/have it. Also, ppl back then, even in America, spoke with incredible inflection!

[@lindypatterson3482]

Nauseating

[@johnscanlan9335]

Why?

[@skilso]

I agree it’s the monstrous ego and belief that he was right all the time.

[@martynasvolungevicius6611]

@Yitzak Moshe-Goldblatt I'm affraid, not only that...

[@tiger1995grvr]

@53 Yitzak Moshe-Goldblatt 53 as if you witnessed it you idiot

[@alexanderprives4509]

Настоящая Голубая Арийская кровь текла в его жилах. !!!!

[@jakecavendish3470]

My grandfather was at school with him. They called Louis 'Krakatoa' because "His parps could rouse the dead."

[@andrewfulton3435]

Your grandfather was born more than a hundred and twenty years ago??

[@jakecavendish3470]

@@andrewfulton3435 Yes, he was born in 1900, died in 1987

[@andrewfulton3435]

@@jakecavendish3470 Wow, that’s crazy. How old are you do you mind me asking?

[@jakecavendish3470]

@@andrewfulton3435 40. My grandfather had my father when he was 48 and my father had me when he was 36

[@marksenior7823]

Vastly overrated militarily

[@matthewclarke4127]

Are you sure this is Mountbatten? He doesen't sound like Charles Dance.

[@zanie4343]

A classic narcissist!

He could AFFORD To be..

[@youknow6968]

He was an evil man, and a complete hypocrite.

[@Valhalla77777]

The first british astronaut.

[@17noella]

reptile

[@ed_leonardi]

When English was well-spoken.