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    Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a relative of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish...
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    Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was...
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  • James O'Donovan (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    in the Provisional Irish Republican Army assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten, and was the target himself of Irish criminal Martin Cahill. After gaining...
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  • Philip Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born 8 October 1947), known until 2005 as Lord Romsey and until 2017 as the Lord Brabourne, is a British...
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    of Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma took place on Wednesday, 5 September 1979, at Westminster Abbey following his assassination...
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    Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Baroness Brabourne, CBE, , MSC, CD (née Mountbatten; 14 February 1924 – 13 June 2017), was...
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  • Countess Mountbatten of Burma (née Eastwood; born 16 April 1953) is a British aristocrat and the wife of Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma...
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    such as the assassination of Lord Mountbatten and the Warrenpoint ambush to focus attention on the nationalist community's rejection of British rule...
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    the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma in his capacity as Colonel of the Life Guards. Following the assassination of Lord Mountbatten by the IRA in Mullaghmore...
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  • Thomas McMahon (Irish republican) (category Irish murderers of children)
    IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten" (On This Day: 27 August). BBC. 27 August 1979. "1979: IRA member sentenced for Mountbatten's assassination" (This Day in...
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  • Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy is a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Supreme Commander...
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    was particularly moved to increase security after the 1979 Assassination of Lord Mountbatten. Access through these gates led to a political scandal known...
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    of Margaret Thatcher, the leader of the Opposition and then prime minister: the assassination of Airey Neave; the assassination of Lord Mountbatten and...
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    conspiracy case Assassination of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Several attempts to assassinate a Governor-General of India have occurred...
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    Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (24 May 1854 – 11 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British...
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    The Troubles (category 20th-century military history of the United Kingdom)
    used. Notable events of IRA bombs of Irish origin included Bloody Friday, the Warrenpoint ambush, the assassination of Lord Mountbatten, and the Hyde Park...
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  • Warrenpoint ambush (category Deaths by firearm in the Republic of Ireland)
    The attack happened on the same day that the IRA assassinated Lord Louis Mountbatten, a close relative of the British royal family. The ambush took place...
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    the unmasking of Anthony Blunt, former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, as a communist spy and the assassination of Lord Mountbatten by the Provisional...
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  • Edward Daly (bishop) (category People of The Troubles (Northern Ireland))
    won the approval of the British government, but the visit was cancelled in the wake of the IRA's assassination of Lord Mountbatten and the Warrenpoint...
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  • Freedom at Midnight (category Books about foreign relations of the United Kingdom)
    the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India...
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    attend any of the weddings), and Prince Philip went to the United Kingdom to stay with his uncles, Lord Louis Mountbatten and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess...
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    Benbulbin (category Special Areas of Conservation in the Republic of Ireland)
    [citation needed] Benbulbin overlooks the village of Mullaghmore, the site of the assassination of Lord Mountbatten in 1979. As stated above, Benbulbin is a protected...
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    to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma in August. He was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement....
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    visited Drogheda as part of his five-stop tour of Ireland. He arrived less than a month after the IRA assassination of Lord Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth's cousin...
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  • 1979 in the United Kingdom (category Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom)
    sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. 4 December – The Hastie Fire in Hull leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for...
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    life imprisonment in the Republic of Ireland for the August assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma and the murder of several other people. In 1998, after...
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  • Lady Amanda Ellingworth (category Alumni of the University of Kent)
    Ellingworth's grandfather Lord Mountbatten recommended her as a potential bride for his grandnephew, Charles, Prince of Wales. According to his biographer...
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    we can patrol the 500 miles [of border]" Lesley Kennedy (13 November 2020). "The IRA Assassination of Lord Mountbatten: Facts and Fallout". History....
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  • 1947 in India (category Years of the 20th century in India)
    Hari Singh of Kashmir disapproves of Lord Mountbatten's proposal. 25 March - Lord Mountbatten attempts his second effort to stop the Partition of Bengal &...
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    after Gandhi's assassination: Khan, Yasmin (2011). "Performing Peace: Gandhi's assassination as a critical moment in the consolidation of the Nehruvian...
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