Lord Mountbatten: The Grandfather of All Royal British Sex Scandals - PART 1

Prince Andrew’s alleged sexual crimes, bad as they are, are nothing but smokescreen to distract attention of the public from the problem that never goes away: the legacy of Lord Mountbatten, a gigantic figure in the Windsor dynasty, and the center of the most troubling allegations of sexual crimes against children.

This could well be the breaking point of British society with the Royals – and that’s why Andrew is at once a problem – for raising awareness of Royal misconduct – and a patsy, for taking the public fall after other family members have credibly been accused of doing much, much worse.

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

In 2019, Andrew Lownie, the author of a book on Lord Mountbatten, denounced the secrecy that continues to surround the child sex abuse allegations concerning the murdered royal, at a time when the public is demanding greater openness over such claims, as in the allegations about Prince Andrew.

“Why do we never hear the same demands for disclosure about the cover-up of Lord Mountbatten’s death and the involvement of the state in suppressing the [reporting on] trafficking and sexual exploitation of young boys from London and [Belfast’s] Kincora House?”

Lownie’s best-selling book on Lord Mountbatten features interviews with several men who claim to have been trafficked from Belfast, as young boys, to Mountbatten’s castle in County Sligo, in August 1977.

He added: “Mountbatten and many, many others in Northern Ireland and the UK, in the past, had sex with young boys and girls going right back to the 1970s, and earlier”, wrote Lownie.

“That was all swept under the carpet while the rich and powerful sheltered under the protection of the state. Surely the Mountbatten affair should be ruled by exactly the same decisions on disclosure [as Andrew’s]?”

Battenbergs

When the first World War ended, anti-German sentiment in the UK was sky-high , so the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha rulers of the British Empire scrambled to rebrand themselves as the House of Windsor, lest the fate that had befallen their Russian and German cousins should be visited upon them, too. It was an existential threat for the dynasty.

The Battenberg branch of the family took the cue, and changed their names to Mountbatten.

The Royal family was bogged down by controversy, with King Edward VIII abandoning the Crown to pursue his love for a divorced American woman.

Lord Mountbatten became the glue that held the pieces together. He was the last viceroy of India, and prepared the terrain for the long, fruitful reign of Elisabeth II.

Mountbatten was an admiral in the Royal Navy and served as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Command during the second World War. He also held the post of Chief of Defense Staff and Chairman of the NATO military Committee.

Lord Mountbatten became the last viceroy of India, and also a major power broker who managed to marry Queen Elisabeth to his Greek nephew Philip, and later became the most trusted mentor to future King Charles, who described him as “the grandfather I never had”.

A King maker, if not King.

Louis Mountbatten was later assassinated in 1979, by an explosive device put in his private fishing boat.

The IRA claimed responsibility for the murder, but allegations of a cover-up as to the real motivations have since persisted.

FBI files released in 2019 describe Prince Charles’s mentor, Lord Mountbatten, as “a homosexual with a perversion for young boys”.

 He was well-known for his sexual appetites, sparked in part by his own comment about his wife: “Edwina and I spent all our married lives getting into other people’s beds.”

The 75-year-old FBI documents were obtained through a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request. In the documents, Elizabeth Beresford, Baroness Decies, claimed to the FBI that she was intimate with Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary and their ladies-in-waiting.

“She states that in these circles Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife are considered persons of extremely low morals.”

Lady Decies also said that “he is an unfit man to direct any sort of military operations because of this condition. She stated further that his wife Lady Mountbatten was considered equally erratic.”

Agents began compiling the file, which spans more than three decades, in February 1944, shortly after Mountbatten became supreme allied commander of southeast Asia.

The report was signed by EE Conroy, head of the New York field office, who wrote that Lady Decies “appears to have no special motive in making the above statements”.

Louis Mountbatten famously kept a large group of gay friends, including Noël Coward and Ivor Novello.

Another gay friend was Tom Driberg, who reportedly referred to him as ‘Mountbottom’. “Tom said Mountbatten had something of a fetish for uniforms — handsome young men in military uniforms (with high boots) and beautiful boys in school uniform.”

* this article was first published in September 18, 2020, in the Frank Report.

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