Earl Mountbatten’s biography suggests the love affair between his wife Edwina and Jawaharlal Nehru had a “profound effect” on the transfer of power in 1947
When he stood to speak for the princes, he surprised the British when he declared, The breeze is blowing from east to west. It will uproot and blow off the British. It is my earnest request to my British friends to now quit India respectfully .
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