![]() ![]() You'll have no idea what's true and what is pure fantasy. ![]() NINETEEN YEARS BEFORE her husband and grandson were killed, she died mourning their loss.ĭon't waste your time on this one. She passed away from heart failure in North Borneo in 1960." So. For there Wagman-Geller writes, "Edwina spent her last years emotionally adrift, miserable at the enforced separation of the man she loved and devastated at the tragic loss of her husband and grandson. It was on page 53 that I stopped reading and moved this book onto my "Abandoned" shelf. In her chapter on Edwina Mountbatten nee Ashley, she writes about the assassination of her husband Lord Mountbatten in 1979 when the IRA planted a bomb in his fishing boat, killing Mountbatten and his 14-year-old grandson. I am always a bit suspicious of historical detail with no attribution as to the source, and this book certainly had me wondering. A few times I laughed out loud at some of the quotes the author shares. ![]()
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