But the diary entry from the next day has been redacted by the British government saying that the details can jeopardise Britain’s relationship with India and Pakistan. The documents include several diaries and letters written by the Mountbatten couple.Īs per the WION report, the British government is fighting tooth and nail to protect those documents and has so far spent over 600,000 pounds (USD 800,000) to protect them.Īs reported by TOI, during a tribunal hearing recently, Lownier’s lawyer Clara Hamers stated that Lord Mountbatten’s diary entry on Jrevealed that he had dinner with British judge Cyril Radcliffe, the chairman of the boundary commission, and Christopher Beaumont, his secretary. However, documents related to the year 1947-48 were not released. Author takes UK govt to courtĪuthor Andrew Lownie had petitioned the British government to release the Mountbatten documents and had successfully obtained most of them under British Freedom of Information Law.
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Perhaps, I brought you the same?” Nehru’s reply was, “Life is a dreary business”. You left me with a strange sense of peace.
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WION reports that in one letter, Edwina had written to Nehru, “I hate to see you drive away in the morning. The UK government fears that if made public, those documents can damage the relationship between India, Pakistan and the UK.Įdwina Mountbatten’s ‘special’ relationship with India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is not a secret and many experts even argue that Nehru had jeopardised India’s national interests because of his relationship with Edwina. The WION report stated that an author named Andrew Lownie has demanded to see those documents and the British government wants to prevent the author from accessing those.
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A report by WION has stated that diaries and some letters, correspondence between the two, especially those from the years around India’s partition, are being buried by the UK government. The UK government is spending a lot of money to keep documents and letters related to Edwina Mountbatten and her husband Lord Mountbatten a secret.