The British government has once again denied publishing the diaries and letters of the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, and his wife Edwina Mountbatten.
Writer Andrew Lovney had spent four years and two and a half crores to make these letters and diaries public and the British Cabinet and Southampton University have ditched the efforts. As per the author, the diaries and the letter may reveal many secrets about the partition of India and the relationship of Edwina that is why the British government is refusing to make it public.
Andrew Lovney, who wrote the book about Mountbatten, says that he is trying hard to publish the book on Mountbatten’s diary and Edwina’s letters since 2017, but has not been successful so far. He has received instruction from the University that some of the documents should not make public. Loveny said that he suspects that there is something in those documents like information about the Royal family and partition of India due to which the university and government are refusing again and again.
He also said that Mountbatten’s wife Edwina has a close relationship with India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. This was claimed by the British Royal biographer Philip Zeigler, nephew of Lord Mountbatten, he mentioned that there was enough evidence that Mountbatten and his wife have a relationship with outsiders.
Philip Zeigler had written in her book ‘Mountbatten: The Official Biography’ that “Once Mountbatten acknowledged that Edwina and I had spent our entire married life in the beds of other.”
The same was also mentioned in Mountbatten’s daughter Pamela Hicks’s book ‘Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten’ that her father had an extramarital affair with Yola Leveller, wife of the Mayor of Deauville for many years.
According to the reports, in the year 2010, Lord Mountbatten’s dairy was ‘safe for the country’ and the letter was taken by Southampton University for £2.8 million. At that time, the university had said that these documents are available for the people and the commoners can assess them.