LONDON: A battle to force the publication of all the personal diaries and letters of Lord and Lady Mountbatten that are in the Broadland Archive, which could shed light on the royal family, the relationship between Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru, the fairness of drawing the Partition borders and the Mountbattens’ views of Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah, has had some success as a huge tranche of their diaries was published this week for the first time.
Diaries up to 1960 were released digitally on Thursday, four days after an early day motion signed by 22 British MPs was tabled in the House of Commons on July 19 calling for their publication without further obfuscation and delay .
By Press Association 2021
Police frogmen searching the area where Lord Mountbatten was killed when an IRA bomb, destroyed his boat off the coast of Co Sligo, Ireland
Restrictions on access to the diaries of Lord and Lady Mountbatten should be eased “without further obfuscation and delay”, MPs have urged.
A £2 million heritage grant in 2010 enabled the University of Southampton to purchase the Broadlands Archive, which contains 4,500 boxes of official papers and personal correspondence from major figures in the Victorian era.
The papers of the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the last viceroy of India, are part of the collection – and it includes a handwritten note from Mahatma Gandhi to Mountbatten where he details his vow of silence.
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