It didn’t take long for Edwina, young, rich, and alone while her husband Louis was away with the Navy, to begin flirtations and then affairs with various suitors. There were the young men of her social strata, to be sure, but there was also a scandalous rumored fling with the notably female American entertainer Sophie Tucker, “The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas.” These affairs took a toll on her marriage and her relations with the British Royal Family, but also laid the template for the Mountbatten marriage.
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Sources
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten, by Pamela Hicks
The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves, by Andrew Lownie (Amazon.com)
Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own, by Janet Morgan (Amazon.com)
An English Lady in the Roaring Twenties: The Honorable Mrs. Richard Norton – Storied Collection
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