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the release of the Mountbatten archives and the fight to access royal diaries

  • Written by Jenny Hocking, Emeritus Professor, Monash University
the release of the Mountbatten archives and the fight to access royal diariesLord Mountbatten, Ghandi and Lady Mountbatten in New Delhi in 1947.AP/AAP

An immense trove of the most important royal historical material for decades has quietly been released in the United Kingdom. These are the diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife Lady Edwina, from the 1920s until 1968.

As the last great-grandchild and godchild of...

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