Lord Mountbatten: The Grandfather of All Royal British Sex Scandals - PART 2

Now that a number of victims have surfaced, Buckingham Palace has been scrambling to diffuse those claims

Aug 13, 2022

The Anglo-Irish Vice Ring was a real-life network of pedophiles. They supplied children and teens to VIPs from England and Northern Ireland – allegedly including Lord Mountbatten and a host of upper class fiends.

It is also a story embedded in the Irish civil war and the “Troubles” in the 70’s.

Anglo-Irish relations are too big a subject to properly address here, but suffice to say a ring of wealthy British Aristocrats raping poor Northern Ireland boys would be worsening the problem considerably.

Besides the horrendous moral implications, there was also the security risk – “buggery” was a crime in England until 1967. This made homosexuals the prime targets for Intelligence services to flip them, notably the KGB with the infamous “Cambridge Five” ring of spies.

British intelligence, upon learning of the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring, rather than dismantle it, took over it to blackmail leaders of Unionism and associated paramilitary groups.

[Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition on the island that professes loyalty to the Crown and Constitution of the United Kingdom.]

This all led to the cover-up of the scandal, that could have brought Mountbatten’s bisexualism and open marriage again to the forefront – but this time tied to child rape and child trafficking of impoverished children from Northern Ireland.

Now that a number of victims have surfaced, Buckingham Palace has been scrambling to diffuse those claims. Books are bought to the last copies, and shady figures steal every copy from public libraries.

If Mountbatten is exposed, this would inevitably lead to renewed interest in future King Charles’ links to Jimmy Saville, alleged serial pedophile rapist from BBC.

And that could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. So they are panicking.

Mountbatten’s wife, Edwina, was the millionaire granddaughter heiress of banker Sir Ernest Cassel, one of the richest men in Britain.

The couple was a poor match, and Edwina sought excitement with a series of lovers who she called “ginks”, meaning “foolish or contemptible persons”.

When Edward VIII took Louis to one side and told him of concerns about Edwina’s voracious sexual appetite, he finally realized his marriage was in trouble.

In one letter he wrote: “I wish I knew how to flirt with other women, and especially with my wife.”

“I wish I’d sown more wild oats in my youth and could excite more [my wife] than I fear I do.”

In 1931, when US newspapers suggested Edwina was romancing married movie legend Douglas Fairbanks, the couple came to an agreement — they would sleep in separate beds and take lovers, as long as she was more discreet.

Her later lovers included the man her husband had to negotiate the future of India, the leader of Indian Independence Movement, Jawaharlal Nehru.

The Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was the scene of serious organized child sexual abuse, causing a scandal and attempted cover-up in 1980, with allegations of state collusion.

The Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) examined allegations relating to the Home, including claims that there was a pedophile ring at the home with links to the intelligence services.

On January, 2017, the HIA inquiry concluded that the abuse was limited to the actions of three staff members, and did not take place with the collusion of the state or intelligence services.

On April, 1980, three members of staff at the home, William McGrath, Raymond Semple and Joseph Mains, were charged and convicted with a number of offences relating to the systematic sexual abuse of children in their care over a number of years. They received lenient sentences.

Allegations were later made that Northern Irish law enforcement had been informed of the abuse at the home for years, previously, but had done nothing to prevent it.

One of the men convicted, McGrath, the beast of Kincora, leader of loyalist paramilitary group Tara, may have been employed by MI5 since the 60s, and blackmailed into providing intelligence on other loyalist groups.

Allegedly, extreme Ulster loyalists committing sex offences at the Home were being leveraged by MI5 and other branches of the security forces.

Sadly, this Modus Operandi by British Intelligence reproduces the work KGB was doing infiltrating the UK via gay operatives and honey pots.

Some victims have started to speak up:

* 2016, Gary Hoy, a former resident of Kincora, urged the UK security services to hand over documents or testify in the HIA probe.

* Clint Massey: due to the scope of the allegations, the HIA was inappropriate, for it had no access to Intelligence documents.

* Richard Kerr: rejected the remarks that the abuse was limited to 3 staff members. In February 2017 started a legal challenge to the veracity of its investigation. Kerr, later, told Channel 4 News that he was taken from the east Belfast home to London where he was molested by members of the VIP pedophile ring.

Also, whistleblowers from inside the state apparatus have started to surface.

In 2014, former military intelligence officer Colin Wallace said that “any new investigation into the abuse at the home should have access to information from intelligence agencies“.

He believes that it is time for the state to come clean. “Given the fact that the British intelligence services were well aware of what was going on in Kincora, there are major questions to be asked over why there were no prosecutions.”

“And when you take in the fact that the IRA was heavily infiltrated by the state well before 1978, is it not odd that the attack on Mountbatten was not known to them?”

In August 2014 another former intelligence officer, Brian Gemmell, said that “he also had been ordered to stop investigating allegations of abuse at the home”.

Andrew Lownie’s book also brings the revelation: a driver who was at the service of Lord Mountbatten in Malta, during WW2, Ron Perks, was once asked by the Naval Officer to take him to the infamous Red House.

“I found [the driver] from an interview in a newspaper cutting in East Anglia… […] He’s a very nice, serious, old school soldier”

Perks told the author that the Red House “was an isolated, baronial-style building with a flat roof. One day as we were driving along, Mountbatten asked if I knew the Red House. I said I did, and he asked if I would take him there, which I did.”

“He wouldn’t have asked me for nothing,” Ron Perks continued, “I didn’t know what it was and only learnt after I came out of the service that it was an upmarket gay brothel used by senior naval officers.”

Andrew Lownie’s told Maltese press that “people told me stories about [Mountbatten] being invited on picnics in Malta and it was clearly a sexual invitation. […] I wasn’t able to get anyone to speak on record about it. I think most of them didn’t want to say anything because of their loyalty towards him.”

The threat to the Palace was very real: journalists in Dublin were inquiring into Lord Mountbatten’s role in pedophile rings.

“The involvement of Mountbatten and other VIPs in abuse on both sides of the Irish Sea had the potential to shake the British Establishment to its foundation.”

To plug the leaking Kincora dam, a cover-up was designed by British and Irish Intelligence Agencies to hoodwink the public into believing that the boys at the home were only abused by the staff who worked there and never fed out to a wider ring.

The darkest secret to conceal was that Mountbatten was a member of the wider ring. Victims were threatened and even assaulted to stay away from the trial of the staffers from Kincora.

If Mountbatten had been exposed, PM Edward Heath, BBC’s Jimmy Saville, MPs like Sir Peter Morrison and Sir Cyril Smith might have been halted. “Instead, the abusers flourished like fungi in the dankest recesses of society.”

In the last years, Prince Andrew has been stripped of his duties and exposed to public opprobrium for the exploitation of a 17 year old teenage girl. His alleged behavior is appallingly bad, no doubt about it. But compared to other Royal Family members?

“To gauge the threat Mountbatten’s sexual excesses posed to the Establishment, one only has to envisage what the reaction would be if the allegations against Prince Andrew were of the rape of a large number of boys and teenagers, some as young as 8 years of age, with at least one of them committing suicide.”