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A review by scottjeffe
The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves by Andrew Lownie
4.0
An interesting account of a very complicated couple. The author covers everything from the most serious effects Mountbatten had on various points of 20th century to the most tawdry aspects of the live lives of the couple. Neither come off incredibly well, although Mountbatten himself is slightly more sympathetic than his cranky, wonton wife who had no interest in fidelity in marriage.
Mountbatten famously said that he had his wife spent the better part of their marriage getting into other people’s beds, but I had no idea just how true that was and just how openly it was done. Edwina had the brass balls to do it chronically - and expect Louis to accept it - and then be jealous when he did it in return.
Mountbatten is portrayed as more mendacious and more shallow than I have seen in past studies.
Strangely enough, none of this was done by the author with any malice and with this “worts and all” approach, these two people come off pretty well, due to their commitment to public service and their ultimate loyalty to one another (even if Edwina was a first class b$&ch to her husband - and often to her daughters).
Ps: if I were Andrew Lownie, I would have skipped the second to the last chapter, where, after putting Mountbatten in the grace he goes on as nausuem for 20 pages about the homosexuality rumors.
Mountbatten famously said that he had his wife spent the better part of their marriage getting into other people’s beds, but I had no idea just how true that was and just how openly it was done. Edwina had the brass balls to do it chronically - and expect Louis to accept it - and then be jealous when he did it in return.
Mountbatten is portrayed as more mendacious and more shallow than I have seen in past studies.
Strangely enough, none of this was done by the author with any malice and with this “worts and all” approach, these two people come off pretty well, due to their commitment to public service and their ultimate loyalty to one another (even if Edwina was a first class b$&ch to her husband - and often to her daughters).
Ps: if I were Andrew Lownie, I would have skipped the second to the last chapter, where, after putting Mountbatten in the grace he goes on as nausuem for 20 pages about the homosexuality rumors.