After the death of Edwina Mountbatten in 1960, Dickie still had another 19 years of living to do, and while he was single, he was in no way alone. He had romances with plenty of women in his later years, and according to many, he had male lovers – including, it is alleged, boys –…
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49. Louis and Edwina Mountbatten | Comrades in Arms
As Edwina took pains to lay low in Malta after the scandals of her affairs, Italy decided to exit the League of Nations and invade Ethiopia. To protect their children, she took them to Budapest and installed them in a hotel with their nanny and governess… and then forgot which hotel they were in. For…
47. Louis and Edwina Mountbatten | Unconventional Marriage
As the Roaring ’20s turned into the ’30s, Edwina’s appetite for other lovers showed no sign of diminishing, and eventually led to a breaking point with her long-suffering husband, Louis. At one point, they decided that divorce was the best option, but quickly reconciled with new rules for their relationship: Edwina would be more discreet…
45. Louis and Edwina Mountbatten | The Wedding and The Honeymoon… Is Over
While Louis and Edwina Mountbatten would have a 38-year-long marriage, it isn’t quite right to say it was a happy union. That first six months or so though – when they traveled through Europe and the United States, meeting Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, and dining with President Warren G. Harding – was a magical…
44. Louis and Edwina Mountbatten | Origin Stories and Engagement
As many will already know, it was the youngest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine who would become a prominent figure in the lives of the modern world of the Windsors. Young Louis Battenberg, later Louis Mountbatten, was known as Dickie to his confidants, and was stung…
40. Meet the Mountbattens!
While royal houses are often insular and even incestuous (at least at the cousin-marrying level), new blood does manage to enter those gene pools from time to time. Meet the Mountbattens! The family’s story begins in Russia, circa 1850, where the orphaned daughter of a Polish general named Julia von Hauke was serving in the…