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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Chris Hall

The life and works of Louis Mountbatten, as seen in 1974

Churchill and Asquith ‘needed Louis as First Sea Lord in war even more than they needed him in peace’: Louis Mountbatten.
Churchill and Asquith ‘needed Louis as First Sea Lord in war even more than they needed him in peace’: Louis Mountbatten. Photograph: No Credit - researching credit

An extract from Richard Hough’s Louis and Victoria in the Observer Magazine of 8 September 1974 (‘The Prince and the plotters’) recalls the joke in Blackadder Goes Forth when Captain Darling patriotically says he’s as British as Queen Victoria, to which Blackadder replies: ‘So, your father’s German, you’re half-German and you married a German?’

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