He went on to gain an MSc at Edinburgh University and spend a year at the College of Law in London. The former Edward VIII is alleged by Lownie to have been a Nazi sympathiser who gave aid and comfort to his country’s enemies before and during the Second World War. He read history at Magdalene College, Cambridge where he was President of the Union. Dickie Mountbatten was assassinated in 1979 and forty years on, prize-winning historian Andrew Lownie sheds new light on this powerful and dynamic couple. In 2021, Lownie published The Traitor King, a biography, based on fresh sources, of the Duke of Windsor. The Sunday Times bestselling biography of the glamorous couple. Andrew Lownie was born in 1961 and was educated in Britain and America. The intimate story of a unique marriage spanning the heights of British glamour and power that descends into infidelity, manipulation, and disaster through the heart of the twentieth century.ĭICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the royal family taking the Mountbatten name, he was Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War II and the last Viceroy of India.ĮDWINA MOUNTBATTEN: Once the richest woman in Britain-and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs-she emerged from World War II as a magnetic and talented humanitarian worker who was loved throughout the world.įrom British high society to the South of France, from the battlefields of Burma to the Viceroy's House, The Mountbattens is a rich and filmic story of a powerful partnership, revealing the truth behind a carefully curated legend. THE MOUNTBATTENS : THEIR LIVES & LOVES: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, LOWNIE, ANDREW, 14,95.

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