Lord Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten refers to Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979), a British royal, naval commander, and statesman.
He served as the last Viceroy of India, overseeing its partition and independence in 1947, and later as Chief of the Defence Staff.
A great-grandson of Queen Victoria and uncle to Prince Philip, he was assassinated by the IRA in Ireland.
The title itself is a British peerage created in 1946.
- BurmaFormer name, now Myanmar
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- ViceroyCrown's territorial deputy
- IndiaSouth Asian republic
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
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