Lord Mountbatten Is Assassinated by the IRA | The Crown (Olivia Colman, Charles Dance)

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  • @dengamleidiot
    @dengamleidiot 8 місяців тому +1800

    4:19 Going from silence to noisy endcard, should be a crime in editing

    • @Revster
      @Revster 2 місяці тому +9

      You’d hate what Jujutsu Kaisen did after a massive disaster 😅

    • @connieclarke5855
      @connieclarke5855 2 місяці тому +19

      @@Revster why do you think your anime is relevant to this TV show for adults?

    • @Revster
      @Revster 2 місяці тому +8

      @@connieclarke5855 for doing what the comment above mentioned, instead of worrying about which show is for who, despite both shows having the same pg rating 🤦‍♂️

    • @connieclarke5855
      @connieclarke5855 2 місяці тому +10

      @@Revster Why do you think your mediocre anime is comparable to this TV show for adults?

    • @Revster
      @Revster 2 місяці тому +8

      @@connieclarke5855 I already answered that and it’s my anime as much as the crown is your series, since you can’t read though maybe try text to speech

  • @doubleducks814
    @doubleducks814 8 місяців тому +6684

    As a catholic doing repairs in a protestant bar in Belfast I remember phoning my boss and saying
    "come and get me before they kill me"

    • @MegaSpideyman
      @MegaSpideyman 8 місяців тому +23

      Really?

    • @hiramabiff2017
      @hiramabiff2017 8 місяців тому

      Was those repairs needed in the bar after another IRA atrocity ? And you and I both know you either lied about your religion ( a sin if I recall ) to be working there in the first place or your talking utter b@llocks.

    • @doubleducks814
      @doubleducks814 8 місяців тому

      @@MegaSpideyman Don't be a dick.

    • @archaeoPeter
      @archaeoPeter 8 місяців тому +85

      How would they know you are a catholic? 😮

    • @keahithefieryone8513
      @keahithefieryone8513 8 місяців тому +984

      @@archaeoPeter They know

  • @NorthColin
    @NorthColin 4 місяці тому +1933

    This scene is genius because everyone was hunting something, whether it be lobster, fish, or pheasants, not realizing that they themselves, the royal family, was also being hunted.

    • @victoriacole7661
      @victoriacole7661 3 місяці тому +33

      oohhh well done you.

    • @lordeden2732
      @lordeden2732 3 місяці тому +5

      Oh boy you can type compleat and utter dribble.

    • @NorthColin
      @NorthColin 3 місяці тому +37

      @@lordeden2732And you cannot spell correctly.

    • @MyNameIsSeamus
      @MyNameIsSeamus 3 місяці тому

      ​@@NorthColingood

    • @TheBlackBox_YouTube
      @TheBlackBox_YouTube 2 місяці тому +12

      Amazing writing. Good eye too. Most people never notice things like that in film.

  • @dwilborn1257
    @dwilborn1257 9 місяців тому +3430

    I love how the queen sees the vehicles coming and just knows it can't be good news.

    • @NiVi192
      @NiVi192 9 місяців тому +169

      Well sadly, she had a history of getting bad news on vacation!

    • @mnfrench7603
      @mnfrench7603 9 місяців тому +22

      It was in the script 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @tylerkochman1007
      @tylerkochman1007 9 місяців тому +41

      They wouldn’t disturb her otherwise

    • @allshookup1640
      @allshookup1640 9 місяців тому +39

      The monarch is allowed to go on planned excursions I’m sure some security was with her, but mainly she was spending time with her family. She should have been having a nice peaceful day. With so many people rushing to get that can only mean something happened and they are bringing her LOADS more protection or dignitaries to speak to her IMMEDIATELY. That can never be good. Otherwise they could just wait until she returns

    • @saltnessmonster
      @saltnessmonster 9 місяців тому +15

      Likely MI5 did it, Mountbatten had a very shameful personal life that would have destroyed the British establishment.

  • @TK-ky5kh
    @TK-ky5kh 5 місяців тому +625

    You never expect the assassin to be a lobster, but that's just how crazy things got at this time in history.

    • @AppalachianMountaineer1863
      @AppalachianMountaineer1863 4 місяці тому +34

      That lobster waited 800 years to get at English nobility

    • @James-ju4gj
      @James-ju4gj Місяць тому +4

      Thus began the great lobster wars that would shape the modern world

    • @SunflowerSocialist
      @SunflowerSocialist Місяць тому +2

      @@James-ju4gjAll hail lobster

    • @jackmclean4120
      @jackmclean4120 Місяць тому +3

      There was nothin' we could do. The lobster was a made guy, and Francis wasn't.

    • @captain2ahab
      @captain2ahab Місяць тому

      @@jackmclean4120 Waddaya mean "he's gone?"

  • @AdaraBalabusta
    @AdaraBalabusta 9 місяців тому +2060

    I remember living in London at this time. Every lone backpack was treated as if it were a bomb. It's always a good time to be young; that was true for us, but it was also a very frightening time to be young.

    • @randbarrett8706
      @randbarrett8706 9 місяців тому +123

      The conflicts at the periphery of empire always make their way to the imperial core eventually

    • @alexakowalski8215
      @alexakowalski8215 9 місяців тому +1

      Did you have no Blacks no Irish no dogs sigh?

    • @colloquialsoliloquy6391
      @colloquialsoliloquy6391 9 місяців тому

      Well for us in Ireland ,it wasn't every backpack ,but every foreign soldier with guns ,that frightened us.
      Those and the sadistic loyalist death squads ,who with Intel and weapons from the RUC ,would roam the country looking for innocent Catholics to murder.

    • @dodgedemonsrtx
      @dodgedemonsrtx 8 місяців тому +103

      Maybe u shouldn't have attacked the Irish people and give them independence and freedom huh? Don't u think it's a better option?

    • @chandarussell
      @chandarussell 8 місяців тому +21

      I remember. We were taught never to set a shopping bag or anything down and take a step away even just to look at something just in case someone thought you were leaving a bomb.

  • @pfdrtom
    @pfdrtom 7 місяців тому +362

    Olivia is a superb actress. From funny roles (Peep Show) to something as serious as this. What a lovely lady.

    • @sebastianbonnet1492
      @sebastianbonnet1492 3 місяці тому +1

      Check out her episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Marvellous.

    • @lordeden2732
      @lordeden2732 3 місяці тому +2

      There are many female actors far better than her who did not get her breaks.
      Just because she can remember the works and not fall over the furniture does not make her wonderful

    • @sheilaburns8977
      @sheilaburns8977 Місяць тому +2

      @@lordeden2732 Wow, this sounds personal. BTW, she is also an Oscar winner.

    • @timlynch5710
      @timlynch5710 21 день тому

      Her talents don't make her lovely. You liking her doesn;t either.

    • @shubhuful
      @shubhuful 19 днів тому

      Well the same goes for Imelda too. Her funny roles in Cranford and Shakespeare in Love to being The Queen in this very series ❤

  • @NiVi192
    @NiVi192 9 місяців тому +1796

    The cinematography, the score, the editing, the sound mixing, the subtle use of visual effects - God, this show had a strong crew!

    • @Saltybuher
      @Saltybuher 9 місяців тому +5

      My understanding is that Mountbatten was a bad guy and a bad officer as well.

    • @NiVi192
      @NiVi192 9 місяців тому

      @@Saltybuher Even if that was true (and even if that tells you that the man, his children, grandchildren... all deserved to die in a horrible terrorist attack), what does that have to do with any of what I said about the work of the show's crew?

    • @Tim.NavVet.EN2
      @Tim.NavVet.EN2 8 місяців тому +15

      @@Saltybuher Actually he was well liked and lead from the front! (The portrayal of him in "The Longest Day" is spot on according to the veterans who say him that day!!!)

    • @cosmiconion87
      @cosmiconion87 8 місяців тому

      alright Nigel - yeah i enjoyed working on this with you mate ;-) see ya Wednesday

    • @abstractalien12345
      @abstractalien12345 8 місяців тому +7

      Such talent wasted to frame things so dishonestly. The whole time shes crying to the telegram being read, all I can think is, “just give them their island back”. It is sad centuries of oppression affected her for a fleeting moment, too, but just give it effing back

  • @crazybulksj
    @crazybulksj 8 місяців тому +465

    I met the boat handler (captain) in Donegal once and he told me he should of been on that boat that day. Thankfully he wasn’t on that boat. His brother lived in England and was getting married and wanted him to be best man. Unfortunately he couldn’t afford the tickets to England but on the day of the explosion he headed to catch his flight as he be out her paid.
    I’ve also stood where the IRA was most likely watching the boat from the sore. Was a eerie feeling.

    • @scottcharney1091
      @scottcharney1091 5 місяців тому +6

      Should *have

    • @larkatdawn
      @larkatdawn 5 місяців тому

      Thank Heaven for that!!

    • @claremontcowboy7409
      @claremontcowboy7409 5 місяців тому +23

      Yeah, the boat handler was lying to you - it's a story all the old codgers like to tell tourists.

    • @toastedt140
      @toastedt140 4 місяці тому +4

      ​@@claremontcowboy7409goes along with the carpenter's "I did cabinetry for the royal family"

    • @BrianMcCarthy-z9l
      @BrianMcCarthy-z9l 3 місяці тому

      It wasn't the IRA, but another group.

  • @rhizomorph-music
    @rhizomorph-music 8 місяців тому +3068

    Sadly, the female lobster was not, in fact, able to go have her babies in peace.

    • @johndoerner8790
      @johndoerner8790 8 місяців тому +35

      Your attempt at humor is disgustingly in poor taste.

    • @FelonDeGeneres
      @FelonDeGeneres 8 місяців тому +305

      @@johndoerner8790 I disagree, for I am hiiiiighly amused.

    • @chrishamblett945
      @chrishamblett945 8 місяців тому +40

      High IQ level comedy 😂

    • @johndoerner8790
      @johndoerner8790 8 місяців тому +10

      Cynical humor is the laziest of all humor; Apparently that describes your taste, and intelligence.

    • @johndoerner8790
      @johndoerner8790 8 місяців тому +9

      @chrishamblett945 . Actually very low level. Maybe you laugh at " Fart " jokes. You probably do.

  • @RonRicho
    @RonRicho 8 місяців тому +168

    One of the most perfectly paced scenes I have ever seen.

  • @janetaldrich7747
    @janetaldrich7747 2 місяці тому +20

    My heart breaks for the grandson who survived. It had to be awful, losing one's twin.

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq 9 місяців тому +655

    I remember watching this episode, despite knowing what was going to happen, and just feeling shocked all the same. What a way to open the fourth series.

    • @Saywhatnow-o3w
      @Saywhatnow-o3w 9 місяців тому

      If it’s really true to history it would mention that Mountbatten was a pervert

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 8 місяців тому +4

      It was an explosive season opener, for sure. I wonder if they were worried the series was starting to bomb?

  • @ArmourSoldier-n4t
    @ArmourSoldier-n4t 8 місяців тому +4860

    Cany believe the lobster was a IRA assassin

    • @captainlamp2.076
      @captainlamp2.076 8 місяців тому +217

      His name is Larry. The IRA promised to buy him a weight set so he didn't have to use anchor arms anymore.

    • @Roddy556
      @Roddy556 8 місяців тому +24

      What a twist

    • @TommyA1991
      @TommyA1991 8 місяців тому +96

      A very unshelfish act

    • @dengamleidiot
      @dengamleidiot 8 місяців тому +6

      Can’y

    • @tylerjohnson9949
      @tylerjohnson9949 8 місяців тому +5

      Gross

  • @delgrady10
    @delgrady10 4 місяці тому +427

    I remember seeing on the walls in West Belfast as a kid ‘14 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, WE GOT 18 AND MOUNTBATTEN - IRA’
    The ‘14 gone’ was reference to the 14 innocent people shot dead by the British army on Bloody Sunday.

    • @lngvly22
      @lngvly22 3 місяці тому +17

      Amazing how evil war and strife can turn ordinary people.

    • @gillianbrown8502
      @gillianbrown8502 3 місяці тому +81

      Mountbatten was a dreadful man, though a great shame others died with him on that boat.

    • @Acheron666
      @Acheron666 3 місяці тому

      Mountbatten was a nonce.

    • @lordeden2732
      @lordeden2732 3 місяці тому

      ​@gillianbrown8502 He was an old Queen and kiddie fiddler.
      His wife was no better, She bedded any male she could get her claws on, willing or not.

    • @wolverineeagle
      @wolverineeagle 2 місяці тому

      They killed children. They were no better than the British.

  • @POPE_FRANC1S
    @POPE_FRANC1S 8 місяців тому +1878

    No matter what you think about mountbatten you have to agree that those two children were innocent

    • @Ck-zk3we
      @Ck-zk3we 7 місяців тому +594

      As were all the children he abused

    • @Taffy064
      @Taffy064 6 місяців тому +53

      @@Ck-zk3we 👍I wanted to say that.

    • @HappyBoxer-nb1mb
      @HappyBoxer-nb1mb 6 місяців тому

      @@Ck-zk3wechildren are not expendable. Period.

    • @catalina1968
      @catalina1968 6 місяців тому +14

      @@Ck-zk3weWhat did he do?

    • @caryinsheppard8003
      @caryinsheppard8003 6 місяців тому +43

      ​@@wthwasthat8884 OMG, that bastard! Thanks for explaining.

  • @ilkkaholma7832
    @ilkkaholma7832 5 місяців тому +63

    Olivia Colman is such an awesome actor. her presence makes almost anything watchable!

    • @truthslayer1372
      @truthslayer1372 Місяць тому +1

      Actress

    • @ilkkaholma7832
      @ilkkaholma7832 Місяць тому

      @@truthslayer1372 i prefer to say actor. she is in the "overall greatness of acting" category

    • @cooganalaska3249
      @cooganalaska3249 Місяць тому

      @@ilkkaholma7832 So you are implying that actors are inherently better than actresses (for some inexplicable reason only you would know). A pathetic excuse to butcher our common English language. I know the queen would not have approved of such woke nonsense.

    • @ilkkaholma7832
      @ilkkaholma7832 Місяць тому

      ​@@cooganalaska3249 piss off, olivia is great

    • @PeterMoss54321
      @PeterMoss54321 Місяць тому

      @@cooganalaska3249 I was watching Hollywood Squares in the early 90's, and the question to Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson) was "Actresses are now known as this". Isabel Sanford answered "Actors", the contestant agreed with Isabel Sanford's answer, and X got the square.

  • @austinhuber3131
    @austinhuber3131 8 місяців тому +1274

    Charles Dance is like 0-2 against the Irish.

    • @TH3CAPN
      @TH3CAPN 8 місяців тому +26

      800 year lead kidda lmao

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 8 місяців тому +78

      0-3 if you count Eddie Murphy taking out Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child. I mean, he is named Murphy...right?

    • @austinhuber3131
      @austinhuber3131 8 місяців тому +5

      @@vangroover1903 Ha ha ha ha golden

    • @austinhuber3131
      @austinhuber3131 8 місяців тому +13

      @@TH3CAPN Yeah, Charles Dance is 800 years old

    • @TH3CAPN
      @TH3CAPN 8 місяців тому +4

      @@austinhuber3131 whoosh

  • @deniseeulert2503
    @deniseeulert2503 9 місяців тому +720

    "oh dear, it's never good when they come in packs like this."

    • @Richard-l4l5i
      @Richard-l4l5i 9 місяців тому +22

      Such a well acted line and for some reason weirdly funny

    • @boysofwexford
      @boysofwexford 8 місяців тому +15

      Brits travelling in jeeps was always bad news ... mostly for them

  • @ManCave1972
    @ManCave1972 8 місяців тому +535

    Production values were strong with this one. Done with drama and sensitivity, don’t forget two young lads died that day too.

    • @istoppedcaring6209
      @istoppedcaring6209 7 місяців тому +5

      20, 18 soldiers are said to also have been killed and then there are all the Irish people that no doubt also died

    • @danielmorris6523
      @danielmorris6523 7 місяців тому +26

      I am rather suspicious of old men who go out on small boats with unrelated young boys.

    • @bobh2610
      @bobh2610 6 місяців тому +67

      ​​@@danielmorris6523One was his grandson, the other was a local teen serving as crew. Also on the boat was his daughter, her husband, his daughter's other son (twin of the one that was killed) and his daughter's 83yo mother-in-law. The mother-in-law died the following day, the rest lived.

    • @jamesmartin4055
      @jamesmartin4055 5 місяців тому +2

      Destroyed the tourism In Leitrim and Sligo with the English fishermen

    • @jefreyjefrey6349
      @jefreyjefrey6349 4 місяці тому

      @@bobh2610 Slava Ukraine it wasnt Russians..

  • @mrjockt
    @mrjockt 8 місяців тому +2096

    Let’s not forget that on the same day Mountbatten was murdered the British Army also lost a total of 18 men in the Warrenpoint Massacre, the largest number of soldiers killed in a single incident during the entirety of the Troubles.

    • @JimJam8008
      @JimJam8008 8 місяців тому +89

      @@Kirbyoto2098why the hate?

    • @DiscopediaTheBoogieMan
      @DiscopediaTheBoogieMan 8 місяців тому +471

      @@JimJam8008well earned hate.

    • @stephenmurray2851
      @stephenmurray2851 8 місяців тому +82

      ​@@DiscopediaTheBoogieManhow's that working out for you 😂. Remember its called ulster

    • @Effective_tool_of_Satan
      @Effective_tool_of_Satan 8 місяців тому

      @@JimJam8008 Because the brits are colonizers.

    • @75YBA
      @75YBA 8 місяців тому +242

      🇮🇪

  • @JamesMcCown-yf3qf
    @JamesMcCown-yf3qf 7 місяців тому +54

    Olivia Coleman is brilliant in this scene. Consider her facial expression: Shock, anger, grief . . . all at once.

    • @Rjl41
      @Rjl41 6 місяців тому

      and Margaret Thatcher's, her face shows all the same!

  • @colleens1107
    @colleens1107 22 дні тому +5

    14 gone but not forgotten, we got 18 and Mountbatten.

  • @josephk7954
    @josephk7954 4 місяці тому +25

    Reverence and condolence to all those who died in the troubles and their families. May this terrible blight never return to our country.

  • @68blues
    @68blues 8 місяців тому +22

    I remember that day well. I was part of a Royal Navy ship refit. An officer walked up to my friend and i and told us about the assassination. He turned around…no more convo… walked away. Seems like yesterday.

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 8 місяців тому +5

      Boy, it must have felt like he had just dropped a bomb........

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 19 днів тому +2

      It wasn't an assassination, it was an execution, carried out as retribution for the centuries of war crimes, carried out by the Enfglish, against the Irish Celts.

  • @Skunnt
    @Skunnt 2 місяці тому +7

    Charles Dance is one of my favorite actors loved him as Tywin and in this show.

    • @Demun1649
      @Demun1649 19 днів тому

      He played a real Bar Steward in both. Look at all the Canadian soldiers Mountbatten killed at Dieppe.

  • @Lisa_MS64
    @Lisa_MS64 5 місяців тому +42

    A close friend of mine spent her youth in London, waiting tables at Lord Mountbatten's club and he was genuinely kind and friendly with all the staff. Word reached him that a foreign dignatary had been particulary rude to my friend and Dickey made him apologize to "our little Irish girl". Despite his faults and mistakes, he deserves to remembered as someone capable of kindness to people who could never pay him back.

    • @Lisa_MS64
      @Lisa_MS64 5 місяців тому +6

      @@fallschirmjager0000 I don't doubt anything was possible, but my friend remembers him fondly. No one is all good or all bad.

    • @exaudi33
      @exaudi33 2 місяці тому

      Gen. Aung San certainly thought so, as they worked out the handover in Burma. They got along very well.

    • @skippy14712
      @skippy14712 Місяць тому

      He was a nonce ffs

    • @derherrgraf6001
      @derherrgraf6001 28 днів тому

      He molested a child. He wasn't a ,,kind" man.

    • @joshwright6383
      @joshwright6383 5 днів тому

      He was a nonce.

  • @seanlee3319
    @seanlee3319 9 місяців тому +836

    From the perspective of the lobster, this was a comedy.

    • @heliotropezzz333
      @heliotropezzz333 9 місяців тому +7

      Except that all but one of the lobsters was blown up and even that one may not have been far enough away to survive.

    • @lesyeuxsansvisage1157
      @lesyeuxsansvisage1157 8 місяців тому +13

      Studies have shown lobsters have sentience. They mate for life, enjoy holding claws with their mate, and can live more than a 100 years. For the lobsters perspective, it’s probably horrifying.

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un 8 місяців тому +6

      Apart from the tinnitus it suffered the rest of its life.

    • @antwandadon2341
      @antwandadon2341 8 місяців тому

      I heard lord Mountbatten was a pedo

    • @tomservo5007
      @tomservo5007 8 місяців тому +1

      lobster died from the pressure wave

  • @rickster5120
    @rickster5120 4 місяці тому +206

    I remember this being reported and mountbatten being painted a saint ...as I've grown older and you realise how he was the polar opposite ..

    • @sethwarren8106
      @sethwarren8106 4 місяці тому +15

      Should have been in jail for attempting a coup

    • @soyentak5076
      @soyentak5076 4 місяці тому

      yeah sending Canadian boys on a suicide mission. thank god my granddad was in the 3rd Canadian Division not the 2nd. but at the end of the day murder is still murder.

    • @AppalachianMountaineer1863
      @AppalachianMountaineer1863 4 місяці тому +31

      He was a real Navy man, fancied himself sailor boys to have some buggery with.

    • @Jesse-qy6ur
      @Jesse-qy6ur 3 місяці тому +6

      @CheeseScout What do you think comes after rum and before the lash?

    • @OyePapaJi
      @OyePapaJi 3 місяці тому +12

      He was involved in Human Trafficking in India too btw.

  • @dvrn86
    @dvrn86 8 місяців тому +468

    Poor wee lads didn't deserve that.

    • @Azazel2024
      @Azazel2024 8 місяців тому +91

      Yeah. Cowards way honestly

    • @Heretomakeyourage
      @Heretomakeyourage 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Azazel2024ira saved them kids from that nonce

    • @c.3727
      @c.3727 8 місяців тому

      @@Azazel2024cowards are the British terrorists calling the Ira terrorists.

    • @magnusthered4973
      @magnusthered4973 8 місяців тому +42

      ​@terenceflanagan1225 how is it cowardice when things like the Raf exist

    • @Pow3llMorgan
      @Pow3llMorgan 8 місяців тому +254

      @@magnusthered4973 How it's cowardly to covertly plant a bomb in someone's boat which is possibly going to blow up with children aboard? Gee I don't know...

  • @polmcsuibhne7657
    @polmcsuibhne7657 8 місяців тому +51

    on that day i was with my father in that place ..sad for the two innocent boys.

    • @larkatdawn
      @larkatdawn 5 місяців тому

      I did not realise that the boys were killed too...Blocked the possibility I suppose. I encountered the man who claimed to have led the assassination - INLA, not IRA...hyped up "cocaine affect" surrounded by sycophants, and according to a now deceased Irish RTE journalist, he would never sit with his back to a window. Yet went every day at the same time to the same newsagent.

  • @Ryxch.lym1
    @Ryxch.lym1 9 місяців тому +46

    I had the chance to visit Classiebawn Castle in County Sligo over the winter. A huge castle which sits on the edge of the cliffs. Magnificent views and sad history with the Mullaghmore village...

    • @erinundra
      @erinundra 3 місяці тому +2

      And my ancestors were starved out of Sligo. Starved.

  • @j.3069
    @j.3069 9 місяців тому +109

    As a lone twin I merely feel the pain of losing your twin. Worse than losing your mother or child as you had an identity without before that. A very difficult and complex loss. May his memory be a blessing.

    • @SadieKay1
      @SadieKay1 8 місяців тому +2

      I'm so sorry this happened to you. Lone twin should never be a thing ❤much love

    • @j.3069
      @j.3069 8 місяців тому +1

      @SadieKay1 I appreciate the sentiment, thank you.

    • @socire72
      @socire72 6 місяців тому

      In 2019, files became public showing that the FBI knew in the 1940s of allegations that Mountbatten was homosexual and a paedophile.[127] The FBI file on Mountbatten, begun after he took on the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia in 1944, describes Mountbatten and his wife Edwina as "persons of extremely low morals", and contains a claim by American author Elizabeth, Baroness Decies, that Mountbatten was known to be a homosexual and had "a perversion for young boys".[125][128] Norman Nield, Mountbatten's driver from 1942 to 1943, told the tabloid New Zealand Truth that he transported young boys aged 8 to 12 who had been procured for the Admiral to Mountbatten's official residence and was paid to keep quiet. Robin Bryans had also claimed to the Irish magazine Now that Mountbatten and Anthony Blunt, along with others, were part of a ring that engaged in homosexual orgies and procured boys in their first year at public schools such as the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. Former residents of the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast have asserted that they were trafficked to Mountbatten at Classiebawn Castle, his residence in Mullaghmore, County Sligo.

  • @unrulysue6927
    @unrulysue6927 9 місяців тому +226

    I remember this happening when I was a child, with my parents watching it on the news

    • @CaAnPeSe4ever
      @CaAnPeSe4ever 9 місяців тому +2

      Me too, I was 11.

    • @michaelhayden725
      @michaelhayden725 9 місяців тому +16

      A woman I worked with spent nearly two days being questioned by the Irish police about this incident. On the two nights before she had been drinking in a bar with two of the suspected culprits. The fact that she was a young naive Australian woman initially did not cut any mustard. She was eventually released.

    • @colloquialsoliloquy6391
      @colloquialsoliloquy6391 9 місяців тому +12

      Ouch don't mention children and Mountbatten...

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol 8 місяців тому +1

      @@colloquialsoliloquy6391 uggg, went on a little Wikipedia rabbit hole :(
      not pleastant.

    • @colloquialsoliloquy6391
      @colloquialsoliloquy6391 8 місяців тому +1

      @@AdamBechtol quite sickening right?
      Next to wiki is British concentration camps in Kenya AFTER WW2

  • @andrewg.carvill4596
    @andrewg.carvill4596 6 місяців тому +12

    I remember reports that the Irish government at the time was quietly relieved at it being on record that Lord Mountbatten himself had refused (as unnecessary) an offer of 24 hour Irish Police surveillance, which would have included a watch on his boat making it near impossible to plant that bomb. Otherwise the Irish government/people and not just the IRA would have been blamed by British opinion (which is probably what the IRA wanted - i.e. a serious escalation of conflict).

  • @mikestrohm3271
    @mikestrohm3271 9 місяців тому +306

    I was a member of the Royal Guard when the Queen Mother was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports earlier in the year, we were told that if a major incident happened we would be top of the list to form whatever the ceremonial needs for that incident would be because of the training we had just completed. Subsequently we were the guard for Navy Days in Plymouth over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The news of Mountbattens murder came through on the last day of Navy Days and within an hour of marching off we were on coaches heading to HMS Excellent in Portsmouth where we began training to pull the funereal gun carriage for Mountbattens funeral.

    • @RobK32
      @RobK32 8 місяців тому +22

      Nobody cares

    • @mikestrohm3271
      @mikestrohm3271 8 місяців тому +70

      @@RobK32 Well I suppose when you make comments like that it's not surprising nobody cares what you think.

    • @lizziedale905
      @lizziedale905 8 місяців тому +14

      Never mind anyone else your story is fascinating! If you don’t mind answering how many hours of practice did you have to do when learning and staging out the route for the funeral gun carriage procession?

    • @fpvDRE
      @fpvDRE 8 місяців тому +1

      @@RobK32 i dont cos this guy served our country so hes a hero unlike you sat in mams spare room doing nothing with your life dude

    • @mikestrohm3271
      @mikestrohm3271 8 місяців тому

      @@lizziedale905 Its a pleasure to tell you about it!
      We found out the news of his death on Monday 27th August and that evening we were taken by coach to HMS Excellent in Portsmouth which was the Ceremonial Training Establishment for the Navy. The following day we were split into the three teams that were required which were Gun Carriage Crew (140 men) plus the Naval escort (150 men) and the bearer parties, plus associated Officers and Senior rates which meant, all in all there were over 350 personnel. The men were brought in from all over the country but as we from Plymouth had formed the Royal Guard for the Queen Mother we were the nucleus of the gun carriage crew. Also in the GCC were senior rates who wore junior rates uniform just for the honour of participating.
      After day one of sorting and sizing all the ratings we were taken every day of training to Eastney barracks in Portsmouth for the actual training - usually 9 hours a day - as Eastney had an archway the same size as Horseguards Arch which was important as the crew had to reduce ranks to pass through the arch so this was vital training for the day.
      We trained in Portsmouth with a practice gun carriage for just four days before moving en masse to London, staying at Pirbright barracks, for three rehearsals on 2nd, 3rd and 4th September marching the route with the gun carriage at 5 am on the first 2 days and 3 am on the 3rd day.
      Day of the funeral we were taken into London in five coaches at 6am with a full Police escort which, at some points, meant us being driven at top speed down the wrong side of dual carriageways, going through red traffic lights and even round roundabouts the wrong way. Finally being dropped off at the Royal Mews where the ceremonial gun carriage was prepared for the day. The wonderful personnel at the Royal Mews supplied us with copious quantities of tea and biscuits and opened up the mews for us to look round all the state carriages used by the Royal Family.
      The memory of the day of the funeral is still etched in my mind, the most significant memory is that, except for the sound of the band preceding us, everything was silent. No noise from the thousands of public who lined the streets to watch the funeral.
      After the coffin was taken into Westminster Abbey, we marched off round the corner where our coaches were waiting and were immediately whisked off back to Portsmouth.

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt 8 місяців тому +58

    It was shocking for his family, and friends. But that man was a cruel, twisted, and many say perverted individual, and an inept leader. His death doesn't deserve to be elevated above any other deaths during the Troubles, simply because of his Lordly status.

    • @patstratpicker5889
      @patstratpicker5889 5 місяців тому +12

      Four of my uncles (all now passed on in the old age) fought in WW2- two in the army, 1 in the navy and one in Air Force. They weren't at Dieppe, the disastrous raid that was planned and overseen by Mountbatten and observed from offshore by Lt.Ian Fleming (yes, that one). Louis Mountbatten was not considered a hero in Canada, that's for sure.
      From Wiki...
      ..."He was central in the planning and promotion of the raid on the port of Dieppe. The raid was a marked failure, with casualties of almost 60%, the great majority of them Canadians.[32] Following the Dieppe Raid, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, with the Royal Canadian Legion distancing itself from him during his visits there during his later career.[43] His relations with Canadian veterans, who blamed him for the losses, "remained frosty" after the war.[44]"

    • @derekstynes9631
      @derekstynes9631 3 місяці тому

      @@patstratpicker5889 A foolish badly planned debacle and it was ordered by Churchill and Mountbatten to placate that Butcher Stalin !

    • @jimnealon6064
      @jimnealon6064 Місяць тому

      He was responsible for 1000’s of deaths.

    • @BruceGreen-q5u
      @BruceGreen-q5u Місяць тому

      @@patstratpicker5889 The true purpose of Dieppe was not a failure. Most of the force landed at Dieppe was cover for the true mission which was obtain information and hopefully components of German radar. There was a German radar station directly adjacent to the beach. Components were examined information gained and the station was damaged in such a way as to convince the Germans that it was battle damage and the radar itself had not been compromised.

    • @cherylschantz9893
      @cherylschantz9893 15 днів тому +2

      But 2 innocent children were killed. Unacceptable.

  • @truthray2885
    @truthray2885 8 місяців тому +258

    I remember when this happened, and reading that Mountbatten, who still loathed the Japanese for their methods and treatment of British prisoners in Burma and Asia in WW2, had insisted that no Japanese officals be in attendance at his funeral. In another story, I think he was the British Raj top dog at the time of Indian independence in 1947, and its civil war leading to the creation of Pakistan. Some time after, he and Lady Mountbatten went to Pakistan to visit its first independent ruler, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who was known to be a massive stiff. Jinnah had prepared a cute little line to say with them in front of the cameras, expecting that LM would stand between himself and Lord Mountbatten for an official photo. Instead, they positioned Jinnah between themselves, but being a stiff, he said the line anyway, which was, "Ha ha, a rose between two thorns." And there was general discomfort all around. 😂

    • @TH3CAPN
      @TH3CAPN 8 місяців тому +24

      @totoroidJapanese stay getting melted by fat man 🌬️

    • @balckrat
      @balckrat 8 місяців тому +19

      I wonder did any of his "boys" from Kincora Boys School attend his funeral.

    • @TH3CAPN
      @TH3CAPN 8 місяців тому +6

      @totoroid sounds like cope lad

    • @MrSRA13
      @MrSRA13 8 місяців тому +9

      ​​@totoroidwhile the yanks won the war? You mean while the UK paid the yanks who finally joined late after the hard graft had been done by the British, French resistance and the Russians. Don't get me wrong, the US gave significant relief and helped mop up/ end the war quicker. But the fact they joined late cost so many lives when they could have helped prevent it. The UK only recently finished paying them back financially. It was like handing over the keys of the empire. So always quite insulting to suggest the yanks won the war when they absolutely did not. They basically missed what would be considered the war.

    • @zeeniashah440
      @zeeniashah440 8 місяців тому +19

      Yeah. Jinnah wasn't being obtuse he was being deliberate. He loathed Mountbatten and his wife who was openly flirting with Nehru.

  • @ishatonthecarpet
    @ishatonthecarpet 2 місяці тому +9

    There was nothing they could have done. The lobster was a made man and Mountbatten wasn't.

  • @tomthebomb557
    @tomthebomb557 19 днів тому +8

    My father, being a Canadian WW2 vet, danced the jig when Mountbatten got blowed up real good. He was the man who decided to sacrifice all those Canadians at Dieppe ...He was a horrible man.

    • @Irishman0855
      @Irishman0855 5 днів тому +3

      We dealt with him don’t worry

  • @manusdeburca
    @manusdeburca 8 місяців тому +664

    British establishment has yet to officially acknowledge mountbattens connection with children

    • @kirkwhite8600
      @kirkwhite8600 8 місяців тому +63

      Care to elaborate for us Yanks who don't keep up with the Royals.

    • @Champs67-sg1mi
      @Champs67-sg1mi 8 місяців тому +151

      Look up mountbatton and kincora boys home.

    • @Rallylabs
      @Rallylabs 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Champs67-sg1mi literally one reporter made a claim with zero evidence. Most likely a load of bullshit.

    • @morerobotwarscontent1476
      @morerobotwarscontent1476 8 місяців тому +34

      ​@@kirkwhite8600 I thought you guys could read English. He had a connection to children. You think you can work that out?

    • @lgbtes
      @lgbtes 8 місяців тому +237

      ​@@morerobotwarscontent1476my gosh.. it was an honest question.. calm the f down girlfriend

  • @jlr108
    @jlr108 8 місяців тому +73

    We were in Ireland for our summer holiday, staying in a cottage in Listowel. First time we'd ever been - we'd taken the ferry from Pembroke to Cork the night before the Fastnet race disaster happened and it had not been a pleasant ferry trip what with how rough the sea had been. It was several days later that Mountbatten had been killed. I was 17 at the time, and I remember how every Irish person we met after this would apologise to us as if it was our own family member who had been killed and as if they felt personally responsible for our loss.

    • @Damon-p9u
      @Damon-p9u 7 місяців тому +25

      They had no need to apologise.

    • @Damon-p9u
      @Damon-p9u 7 місяців тому +9

      @02june80 Not terrorism, but a resistance movement.

    • @CanadianMonarchist
      @CanadianMonarchist 7 місяців тому +19

      I’m glad to hear that. At the end of the day the IRA killed a lot of Irish people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    • @jlr108
      @jlr108 7 місяців тому +3

      @@Damon-p9u You're right. I found it a little bewildering at the time.

    • @jhogan1960
      @jhogan1960 5 місяців тому

      @@Damon-p9u Yes they did. Mountbatten was not a combatant. The IRA were terrorists.

  • @brucemacallan6831
    @brucemacallan6831 8 місяців тому +19

    If it was the IRA who were responsible, - I'm pretty sure the UK security services let them do it. His homosexual paedofilia was geting out of control. He was a liability.

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 8 місяців тому +8

      So, a sort of backdoor solution...........phrasing aside.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 8 місяців тому +1

      Maybe the UK supplied the UK registered car :)

    • @andywilliams7323
      @andywilliams7323 6 місяців тому

      There was nothing UK security services could do, short of conducting illegal surveillance in another Sovereign nation. Mountbatten was holidaying in Ireland. The Irish security service had gained intelligence the PIRA were planning a big show attack in Ireland and offer Mountbatten 24 hour surveillance and protection as a potential target. But Mountbatten refused.

    • @jonathansteadman7935
      @jonathansteadman7935 5 місяців тому +3

      He was known to frequent the Kincora Boys School.

    • @larkatdawn
      @larkatdawn 5 місяців тому +3

      @@jonathansteadman7935 ...and engaging with Indian boys. Hence the contempt of both Hindus and Mos for him.

  • @vercoda9997
    @vercoda9997 4 місяці тому +1

    That bomb blast noise was heard up to 20 miles away. My mum was hanging out clothes in our back garden where we lived at the time, and she heard it. They live somewhere else now, but can still faintly see Mullaghmore.

  • @herb79
    @herb79 9 місяців тому +357

    That's one lucky Lobster!

    • @oledevo
      @oledevo 8 місяців тому

      That's GOTTA hurt!

    • @MemoirsofaBasketcase
      @MemoirsofaBasketcase 8 місяців тому +5

      The underwater shockwave of the explosion would have unfortunately gotten her too.

    • @ConroyMatheson
      @ConroyMatheson 8 місяців тому +10

      ​@@MemoirsofaBasketcase thank God we have a marine biologist here. I'll definitely take some UA-cam snots word for it

    • @MemoirsofaBasketcase
      @MemoirsofaBasketcase 8 місяців тому +3

      @@ConroyMatheson Are you ok dear?

    • @nl-oc9ew
      @nl-oc9ew 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@MemoirsofaBasketcase doubtful. It wasn't a very powerful explosion, enough to destroy a small boat? Sure 50 lbs of explosives, and was not desigened to create shockwaves (like a depth charge would), most of the blast was transmitted into the boat, people and air. Little would be transmitted directly into the watter.

  • @fabulouschild2005
    @fabulouschild2005 6 місяців тому +158

    I don't care for Mountbatten, but I feel sorry for those poor boys

    • @AppalachianMountaineer1863
      @AppalachianMountaineer1863 4 місяці тому +8

      I feel sorry for the other ones that went out on his boat. Definitely had some not consenting “buggery” going on.

    • @captain2ahab
      @captain2ahab Місяць тому

      me too

  • @cherylbean5881
    @cherylbean5881 8 днів тому +2

    I was there in the UK when this happened.

  • @elainehernen286
    @elainehernen286 4 місяці тому +8

    Sad for the innocent people who were with him😮

  • @nicmart
    @nicmart 5 місяців тому +44

    That fate was too good for Mountbatten, the savage.

    • @MajoradeMayhem
      @MajoradeMayhem 4 місяці тому +2

      But the boys were innocent.

    • @Jesse-qy6ur
      @Jesse-qy6ur 3 місяці тому +2

      @@MajoradeMayhem there are no Royal civilians.

    • @appsb4537
      @appsb4537 3 місяці тому

      @@Jesse-qy6ur Paul Maxwell was a 15 year old from Enniskillen and wasn't royal, you sociopath.

    • @firebird4269
      @firebird4269 3 місяці тому

      @@Jesse-qy6ur Get a life

  • @alexevans6500
    @alexevans6500 8 місяців тому +168

    Two innocent little boys died that day.

    • @lucasgrey9794
      @lucasgrey9794 8 місяців тому

      Mountbatten abused and murdered very many little boys throughout his life.

    • @Yeggman
      @Yeggman 7 місяців тому +68

      Lord Mountbatten had a deep "understanding" of the plight of young boys.

    • @forest8779
      @forest8779 7 місяців тому

      ​@@Yeggman😮

    • @ravkohn1932
      @ravkohn1932 7 місяців тому +16

      And their murderer lives free today

    • @BGodzillahhh757
      @BGodzillahhh757 7 місяців тому

      @@Yeggmanexcuse me?

  • @oyaami1874
    @oyaami1874 8 місяців тому +414

    Mountbatten had a unsavoury reputation

    • @marine102192
      @marine102192 8 місяців тому

      he was a pedo

    • @zzbudzz
      @zzbudzz 8 місяців тому +126

      Like many of these so called Royals in England

    • @doctor_gibbo1392
      @doctor_gibbo1392 8 місяців тому +117

      Yes he was a big supporter of young sailors and was well known for happily taking a load of Able Seamen on his poop deck.

    • @artanevilla
      @artanevilla 8 місяців тому

      He was a paedo.

    • @jscanl
      @jscanl 8 місяців тому +4

      @@doctor_gibbo1392 LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @hughofIreland
    @hughofIreland 9 місяців тому +221

    I love how the two IRA men make off in a car registered in Great Britain. Nobody will notice!

    • @julianrandall4232
      @julianrandall4232 8 місяців тому +17

      The attention to detail was perfect. All the Land Rovers were pre-1980s models too.

    • @Kevlar10k
      @Kevlar10k 8 місяців тому +13

      Well they’re from Northern Ireland so I would be a uk registered car

    • @hughofIreland
      @hughofIreland 8 місяців тому +13

      @@Kevlar10k No. I said the car was registered in Great Britain; I didn’t say the UK. The registration on that car is a huge oversight. It’s a car registered in Great Britain, not in Ireland-north or south. They also wouldn’t have a car registered in the north: it would draw immediate attention.

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 8 місяців тому +2

      The horrific sideburns are a dead giveaway I’m afraid

    • @OldGreyMulletTest
      @OldGreyMulletTest 8 місяців тому +1

      @@hughofIreland You win

  • @picklerick4944
    @picklerick4944 13 днів тому +1

    Mountbatten wasn't fiddling with lobsters on that boat

  • @regplasma7906
    @regplasma7906 19 днів тому +4

    The old joke : How do they know Lord Mountbatten didn't have dandruff ? Because his head and shoulders were found on the beach.

  • @kidsoxoxox
    @kidsoxoxox 8 місяців тому +74

    Client of a Maltese high end boy brothel according to OSS and CIA reports. Australian Politicians and judges no better, 36x named in an official Police report during a 2018 Senate hearing as clients of a Sydney Boy brothel, one was a ex PM.

    • @robertvictor3237
      @robertvictor3237 8 місяців тому +3

      Any links to that please?

    • @schinderiapraemeturus6239
      @schinderiapraemeturus6239 8 місяців тому

      Have come across similar reports concerning Mountbatten..he was a pedo. Those boys shouldn't have been on that boat, not a clean or honorable operation by the IRA. Do not involve civilians

    • @NicoleAC-PhD
      @NicoleAC-PhD 8 місяців тому

      Smh. Sick

    • @melvinpenman1102
      @melvinpenman1102 8 місяців тому +1

      Exactly

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 8 місяців тому +2

      Was the brothel at least called Malteasers????

  • @freedom-pk8kz
    @freedom-pk8kz 24 дні тому +1

    Mountbatten was warned many time to get out but he ignored the warnings..

  • @mickey875
    @mickey875 8 місяців тому +71

    My mom visited England shortly after this happened and when she arrived at the airport in london and was going through customes two British police officers stripped searched her because she had an Irish surname. It didnt matter that she was American or that she was only half irish all that mattered is that she had an irish last name.

    • @psammiad
      @psammiad 8 місяців тому

      These IRA killers were largely funded by the USA.

    • @onothankyou
      @onothankyou 8 місяців тому +6

      There was a lot of back and forth between US and Ireland during that time. Had some family involved in some of that stuff.

    • @theotherside8258
      @theotherside8258 8 місяців тому +2

      I know someone else similar happened to. It was based on their surname. The police were looking for specific Irish names.

    • @svampen7782
      @svampen7782 8 місяців тому +9

      Well it makes sense. For all they knew she could've been born in USA to Irish parents and she could've been an Irish nationalist. Its hard to know when so many Americans are of Irish descent even if their ancestors left Ireland over 100-200 years prior.

    • @theotherside8258
      @theotherside8258 7 місяців тому +5

      @@svampen7782 A high proportion of English people have Irish descent and surnames and are even closer related than most than Irish Americans. In fact as you might imagine being so close to Ireland we always have a lot of Irish born residents too.

  • @mathiasbartl903
    @mathiasbartl903 Місяць тому +14

    Nothing could be done, the lobster was a made man and Mountbatten wasn't.

  • @melchiorvulpius4799
    @melchiorvulpius4799 8 місяців тому +180

    During this scene, all the royals are trying to kill things. Hmmmm.

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 8 місяців тому +7

      What else is there to do at
      Balmoral but hunt game
      and fish? Oh I suppose
      they could do Scottish
      dances (they do watch
      the Highland games)

    • @Busy_Besom
      @Busy_Besom 7 місяців тому +11

      That wasn't an accident by the writer or director.

    • @Tuathadana
      @Tuathadana 7 місяців тому +23

      No the irony is that they were all out hunting and so was the IRA

    • @kjj26k
      @kjj26k 6 місяців тому +13

      The hunters become the hunted.

    • @hadacampanilla6976
      @hadacampanilla6976 5 місяців тому +1

      Una rappresentazione inequivocabile della Legge di Simultaneità di Causa ed Effetto

  • @petercunningham5640
    @petercunningham5640 8 місяців тому +33

    If the lobster survived i would say his hearing would be badly impaired

  • @bridgecross
    @bridgecross 3 місяці тому +2

    The man who set off the bomb is now living a quiet life in County Monaghan, Ireland.

  • @SajidKhan-mf8ts
    @SajidKhan-mf8ts 9 місяців тому +20

    I have Philip Zieglers book on Mountbatten with one chapter on it. Had read it a couple of times but now watching it is different !

    • @Saywhatnow-o3w
      @Saywhatnow-o3w 9 місяців тому +13

      Did it mention in the book that he had a thing for kids?

    • @SajidKhan-mf8ts
      @SajidKhan-mf8ts 9 місяців тому +5

      @@Saywhatnow-o3w Its a thoroughly researched work on Mountbatten. from his arrival to his exit. His naval career and his role as The Last Viceroy to the undivided India then.

    • @triciajumonville7741
      @triciajumonville7741 9 місяців тому

      @@Saywhatnow-o3w You seem to have an obsession. You might want to get help for that.

    • @RobK32
      @RobK32 8 місяців тому

      ​@@SajidKhan-mf8ts and the paedophilia?

    • @ReverZe83
      @ReverZe83 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@SajidKhan-mf8tsSo that's a no then?

  • @i_____am_____realitybroski6421
    @i_____am_____realitybroski6421 Місяць тому +12

    What’s white and flies over the ocean?
    Lord Mountbatten’s tennis shoes

    • @Bingoblin1
      @Bingoblin1 Місяць тому +2

      Or lord mountbatten

  • @2Amend4Life
    @2Amend4Life 7 місяців тому +1

    The production quality of this show is second to none.

  • @Diddy_claps_Meek_Mill
    @Diddy_claps_Meek_Mill 8 місяців тому +97

    They killed Tywin lannister.

    • @Diddy_claps_Meek_Mill
      @Diddy_claps_Meek_Mill 8 місяців тому +7

      @@vangroover1903 I gotta go back and rewatch the series just because.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 8 місяців тому +7

      At least he wasn't on the bog this time.

    • @Enrikr
      @Enrikr 7 місяців тому +4

      Tywin Lannister was less evil.

    • @Thetrinitytruckbutcher
      @Thetrinitytruckbutcher Місяць тому

      and now the rain weep o'er his halls

  • @lucamoulton6402
    @lucamoulton6402 8 місяців тому +341

    strange they dont mention how mountbatten diddled all the little boys he invited out on the boat

    • @occamraiser
      @occamraiser 8 місяців тому +40

      there's a reason for that, liar.

    • @pixelpatter01
      @pixelpatter01 8 місяців тому +1

      @@occamraiser Lord Mountbottom had an FBI file started in 1944; back in the day when the FBI monitored foreign threat instead of acting as our governments political muscle. Just google it.

    • @Mr.Booboo-ky6lm
      @Mr.Booboo-ky6lm 8 місяців тому

      I mean regardless he's British, they throw a rager in hell when British people die except it's just they do the ice bucket challenge with molten lava

    • @colinaitken4709
      @colinaitken4709 8 місяців тому

      @@occamraiser6 people have made allegations about Mountbatten, including 2 of his personal drivers. The FBI also had a file on him, and knew that he was a gay pedophile

    • @tonypine3434
      @tonypine3434 8 місяців тому +17

      Him and Ted heath

  • @madhavanunni7335
    @madhavanunni7335 Місяць тому +3

    I live in Sligo where this happened.

  • @crak6776
    @crak6776 8 місяців тому +23

    Sligo mentioned! 🏁🏁🏁🏁

  • @johnmurdoch8534
    @johnmurdoch8534 8 місяців тому +16

    What about the dozen and a half queens own that got blown away that very day

  • @fredperry523
    @fredperry523 7 місяців тому +31

    I was not aware that two innocent children were also killed - a terrible shame, terrible !

    • @andywilliams7323
      @andywilliams7323 6 місяців тому +8

      All 7 people on the boat were innocent. All of them, including Lord Mountbatten, had never had any involvement whatsoever in the governance of Ireland or Northern Ireland. The attack was condemned in Ireland just as strongly as it was condemned in the UK.

    • @socire72
      @socire72 6 місяців тому

      @@andywilliams7323In 2019, files became public showing that the FBI knew in the 1940s of allegations that Mountbatten was homosexual and a paedophile.[127] The FBI file on Mountbatten, begun after he took on the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia in 1944, describes Mountbatten and his wife Edwina as "persons of extremely low morals", and contains a claim by American author Elizabeth, Baroness Decies, that Mountbatten was known to be a homosexual and had "a perversion for young boys".[125][128] Norman Nield, Mountbatten's driver from 1942 to 1943, told the tabloid New Zealand Truth that he transported young boys aged 8 to 12 who had been procured for the Admiral to Mountbatten's official residence and was paid to keep quiet. Robin Bryans had also claimed to the Irish magazine Now that Mountbatten and Anthony Blunt, along with others, were part of a ring that engaged in homosexual orgies and procured boys in their first year at public schools such as the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. Former residents of the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast have asserted that they were trafficked to Mountbatten at Classiebawn Castle, his residence in Mullaghmore, County Sligo.
      "Innocent"

    • @dessy-cs9ws
      @dessy-cs9ws 4 місяці тому +7

      @@andywilliams7323
      How many innocent boys lives did Mountbottom ruin in his lifetime?

    • @slome815
      @slome815 4 місяці тому +6

      @@dessy-cs9ws I don't get this, this is all over the comment section, but there's zero actual evidence for it. Hell, even authors that set out to prove his guilt can't find anything more then some gossip and rumours. No one knows for sure if it true or not, but you can say for sure there's no proof for it.

    • @firstlast8258
      @firstlast8258 4 місяці тому

      There is no shame in dying for freedom we should all be so lucky

  • @AIMSHSMrKsHistory
    @AIMSHSMrKsHistory 8 місяців тому +38

    "13 gone and not forgotten, we got 18 and Mountbatten"

    • @theirishcenturion8347
      @theirishcenturion8347 7 місяців тому +6

      Try and develop a culture not centred around despising the British lmao , past is the past move on

    • @evsal8087
      @evsal8087 7 місяців тому +5

      @@theirishcenturion8347 They did.....after they pasted the British and got a settlement.

    • @andywilliams7323
      @andywilliams7323 6 місяців тому +6

      @@evsal8087 The Good Friday agreement only happened thanks to the fact that the Provisional IRA, was completely bankrupted, immobilised, and incapacitated by the British Security Service. The Provisional IRA, having failed all of its intended objectives, sat down at the negotiation table because they had no options left and were forced to sit down at the table.

    • @Will-ux1dg
      @Will-ux1dg 5 місяців тому

      @@andywilliams7323You are so correct in this statement. If the British govt had let the army do its job all these murders would not have occurred.

    • @invisibleman4827
      @invisibleman4827 5 місяців тому

      @evsal8087 no, they actually didn't

  • @Andrew-eo2cw
    @Andrew-eo2cw 9 місяців тому +30

    First time seeing somebody pull a lobster creel and stay dry

  • @AK-dr8we
    @AK-dr8we 7 місяців тому +7

    This scene is confusing. Who did what exactly? It looked like the queen was leading an IRA group, and they were able to trigger a bomb explosion on Lord Mountbatten's boat by firing shots at the boat.

    • @andywilliams7323
      @andywilliams7323 6 місяців тому +3

      It happened in County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. Depsite warnings Lord Mountbatten had refused security from both the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Consequently the boat was completely unguarded. 2 IRA men snook onboard and planted the bomb the night before. The next day, they watched the boat from the cliffs overlooking the bay. They waited until Lord Mountbatten walked within close proximity of the bomb's location and then detonated the bomb by remote control.

    • @brianodriscoll2725
      @brianodriscoll2725 2 місяці тому

      Lizzie was an undercover provo 🇮🇪

  • @Stevenbfg1
    @Stevenbfg1 8 місяців тому +324

    First British man in space.

    • @TH3CAPN
      @TH3CAPN 8 місяців тому +1

      Second to the Irishman who got turned to mist

    • @Nathan-bd6cq
      @Nathan-bd6cq 8 місяців тому +66

      @@TH3CAPNDoesn’t even make sense

    • @TH3CAPN
      @TH3CAPN 8 місяців тому

      @@Nathan-bd6cq maybe to ur frail little paddy mind aye

    • @occamraiser
      @occamraiser 8 місяців тому

      ha ha fucking ha

    • @andrewglynn1982
      @andrewglynn1982 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Vvv-1690And babies in prams

  • @maxtblitz
    @maxtblitz 9 місяців тому +48

    My father had a picture of himself included in a whole group of school boys who had their picture taken with Lord Mountbatten when he visited Australia. Having met him first hand, he told me how sad it made him when this happened.

    • @RobK32
      @RobK32 8 місяців тому

      Picture with a paedophile?

    • @agripinaa8684
      @agripinaa8684 8 місяців тому +71

      Guess they were safe around Mountbatten as long as the cameras were rolling…

    • @ConroyMatheson
      @ConroyMatheson 8 місяців тому +1

      There's always one comment. Super pathetic

    • @reddyreddy2618
      @reddyreddy2618 8 місяців тому +3

      ​@@ConroyMathesonwhich comment ?

    • @final_animal
      @final_animal 8 місяців тому

      @@ConroyMatheson Mountbatten was a pedophile, that's what the comment was referring to. It's not just a random jibe, which you're right in saying people will do online for no reason sometimes.
      However, the children photographed with Mountbatten were legitimately in danger from him as he was a very powerful man who abused young boys, the commenter pointing it out wasn't just joking unfortunately.

  • @loyalbeaver9402
    @loyalbeaver9402 7 місяців тому +57

    OK! Now we know that Princess Anne assassinated Lord Mountbatten by sharpshooting at the boat's gas tank, triggering an explosion that blew him to bits.
    Thanks to the show's amazing scene editing, we finally get to learn the truth the damned government is trying to cover up.

    • @AK-dr8we
      @AK-dr8we 7 місяців тому +12

      That's what I said. That's what it looks like. And the Queen was leading the group that assassinated him. I genuinely thought that was an IRA group sneaking close to the beach to shoot at the boat.

    • @retrospective77
      @retrospective77 3 місяці тому

      @@AK-dr8we Jesus you're smart, ain't ya?

    • @eddihaskell
      @eddihaskell 3 місяці тому +1

      That is a ridiculous allegation.

  • @bernardhayes4459
    @bernardhayes4459 8 місяців тому +6

    I was in Ireland when this happened it rocked the country.

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 8 місяців тому +2

      Those were explosive times............

    • @murpho999
      @murpho999 4 місяці тому

      No it didn’t. It rocked the boat only.

  • @1916jamesconnolly
    @1916jamesconnolly 8 місяців тому +30

    I remember the Joke in Belfast at the time about Mountbatten definitely having Dandruff because they found his Head and Shoulders on the Beach. We never thought about that Dad who lost his precious innocent Son on that Boat that Day. So sad.

    • @willstar8095
      @willstar8095 8 місяців тому

      Scum of the earth.
      GOD SAVE THE KING

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 8 місяців тому +2

      Paul Maxwell, aged 14. Still, the family loyalty to that shampoo brand is remarkable. It turns out Diana used it, too.

    • @ostrichman
      @ostrichman 8 місяців тому +1

      who thinks of the victims of a joke...I remember the joke well...I mean do you feel sorry now for the 100's of Ethiopian famine and AIDS jokes you laughed at in the 80s too? As for the jokes about some of the things that happened in the troubles.... Dark sense of humour was required.

    • @1916jamesconnolly
      @1916jamesconnolly 8 місяців тому

      @@ostrichman Yes i remember the Ethiopian Dinner Ticket and AIDS Jokes very well, was only a Child in West Belfast at the time but even then i knew inside it was wrong but wanting to fit in with your mates you laughed. Now as an Adult you see the suffering you were laughing at and cringe.

    • @lyndoncmp5751
      @lyndoncmp5751 2 місяці тому

      Old joke, from when Jaws came out a few years before.

  • @KingGhidorah5464
    @KingGhidorah5464 6 днів тому

    My wife and I affectionately refer to Dickie as "uncle dad" to Phillip, and that's really what he was.

  • @mattkoselowski-wh9vj
    @mattkoselowski-wh9vj 8 місяців тому +11

    Never watched this show, but watching now - the cinematography is superb. well done!

  • @bhaskarganguly7
    @bhaskarganguly7 8 місяців тому +7

    Cinematography is top notch

  • @DB-sh4gh
    @DB-sh4gh 25 днів тому +3

    do the CIA still have a file on Dicky Mountbatten ???

  • @placebo5466
    @placebo5466 9 днів тому +1

    Go on home British soldiers, go on home...

  • @colloquialsoliloquy6391
    @colloquialsoliloquy6391 9 місяців тому +101

    People who harm children ,should receive no sympathy

    • @Immoralsalvage
      @Immoralsalvage 8 місяців тому

      Maybe just fucking maybe the British shouldn't have forced their rule on people then. I DON'T see you crying for 1 million people that died as reult the British Genocidal Famine of the Irish. Payback is a bitch. We owe perfidious Albion more payback.

    • @Willis_S
      @Willis_S 8 місяців тому +68

      Like the royals?

    • @colloquialsoliloquy6391
      @colloquialsoliloquy6391 8 місяців тому +26

      Yup ,in this case ,both the IRA and Royals are guilty.

    • @growinsane9123
      @growinsane9123 8 місяців тому

      The Royals don't intend to harm people but like nearly all of us, sometimes they do.
      The IRA intended to kill, which included the 'children' on the boat.
      There is a night and day difference between people who intend ill and those who fail to prevent it. It is what distinguishes civilization from anarchy and anybody who can't make that distinction has nothing useful to teach the world.

    • @genociderjill
      @genociderjill 8 місяців тому

      ​@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 IRA were just message senders.

  • @sushicourier
    @sushicourier 9 місяців тому +35

    Poor boys.

  • @CARLMOBLEY-b7q
    @CARLMOBLEY-b7q 2 місяці тому +1

    Her range as an actress is unlimited....

  • @jacktaylor5937
    @jacktaylor5937 5 місяців тому +17

    One poor innocent lobster died that day.

  • @Azazel2024
    @Azazel2024 4 місяці тому +42

    It bothered me they murdered innocent people to get him. Have more guts and face him alone . Those boys didn't deserve that

    • @traaztek1996
      @traaztek1996 3 місяці тому +43

      The English should've left faster. Tiocfaidh ar la!

    • @vkmb77
      @vkmb77 3 місяці тому +13

      @@traaztek1996 That's a cold and terrible response.

    • @ridhoirvan1070
      @ridhoirvan1070 3 місяці тому

      @@traaztek1996 waa waaa we cant eat potatoes, imagine being conquered by boats, christ what fuckin losers

    • @infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295
      @infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295 3 місяці тому +12

      As someone who is half Irish (Cork) half Italian even the mafia doesn’t go after children

    • @joer9156
      @joer9156 3 місяці тому

      ​@@traaztek1996 so you could get on with filling the place up with Africans lol

  • @curestarlight3023
    @curestarlight3023 4 місяці тому

    Watching this with my parents who both remember it happening made the dread of what was to come so much worse.

  • @LisaG442
    @LisaG442 9 місяців тому +51

    And Charles’ grieving was what brought Diana to him. Florence Nightingale syndrome. She was a sucker for other ppl’s pain. It’s what made her shine best

    • @ER-uy7ct
      @ER-uy7ct 9 місяців тому +16

      She needed to be needed. And Charles didn't NEED her, as he was a grown ass man when they got married.

    • @maryclaremayo6157
      @maryclaremayo6157 9 місяців тому

      @@ER-uy7ct A grown ass simpering man child.

    • @mitchminer2031
      @mitchminer2031 9 місяців тому

      Charles still IS NOT a grown ass man. Anyone that thinks he is, is a fool.

    • @hilaryc3203
      @hilaryc3203 9 місяців тому +1

      OFFS, let it go.

    • @hilaryc3203
      @hilaryc3203 9 місяців тому +1

      @@ER-uy7ct Just let it go FFS. Stop harping on other people's lives and worry about your own.

  • @RM-xu3dv
    @RM-xu3dv 5 місяців тому +54

    India suffered under him, he was the last viceroy of India under British rule. He is the one who divided India and Pakistan and till now the Kashmir problem, India china border problems etc.

    • @DailyShit.
      @DailyShit. 5 місяців тому

      Every royal is a shitbag.

    • @donaldbadowski6048
      @donaldbadowski6048 5 місяців тому +21

      Funny, I thought the Indians divided India. No matter what you think of him, please don't blame him for what Hindus and Muslims did to each other. He didn't put the swords in their hands.

    • @h.calvert3165
      @h.calvert3165 5 місяців тому +8

      You are TOTALLY misinformed. He did everything he could to prevent partition, but he had only a ceremonial position & no real power, even though the Indians had asked him to stay on to be their first Governor General after serving as the last Viceroy. Also, when Gandhi was assassinated, he prevented a bloodbath by yelling to the crowd that it was a Hindu who killed him. Quick thinking on his part, as no one knew anything in the first moments. But because of his position, people assumed that he had insider information, & believed him. No Hindus in that huge crowd, or any watching television footage afterwards, turned on their Muslim neighbours for revenge. 🕉 ☪️

    • @larkatdawn
      @larkatdawn 5 місяців тому

      @@donaldbadowski6048 Sorry, but it was not a matter of mutual harassment. The moz attack attack attack. Always they are the aggressors, and don't even think about mentioning the Crusades. Took us 4 centuries to respond to the murder of pilgrims. In 1973 they killed 4 million Hindus. Over the centuries they killed 40 million Hindus. But his reputation was loud and clear and he lost respect in India. Without respect a politician or diplomat cannot function.

    • @fais6964
      @fais6964 5 місяців тому +4

      @@h.calvert3165not at all , the reason Punjabi is split and you had west and east Pakistan was precisely because of Mountbatten. There was a different plan in place before Mountbatten demand. Long story but if you read up on the history.

  • @ellenchavez2043
    @ellenchavez2043 3 місяці тому +2

    A thousand years of blood history in the British Isles. And nary a "Sorry".

  • @alexernst9448
    @alexernst9448 8 місяців тому +6

    Cannot believe they had Charles Damce play Mountbatten.

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 8 місяців тому

      He was also Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child, so many did not tears shed.

    • @issimondias
      @issimondias 7 місяців тому

      Why? Who would you have asked to play the role?

    • @alexernst9448
      @alexernst9448 7 місяців тому

      @@issimondias Someone less cool

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 7 місяців тому

      @@issimondias He was Sardo Numpste, one of cinema's finest villains? I think he was also in one of those twilight teeny series as well

    • @issimondias
      @issimondias 7 місяців тому +1

      @@vangroover1903 exactly. He is an actor, why wouldn’t he play Lord Mountbatten?

  • @waymanirwin2539
    @waymanirwin2539 5 місяців тому +6

    Mountbatten was pure evil

  • @adrianc1264
    @adrianc1264 2 місяці тому +1

    He was a great friend of Ted Heath. Very sad about the kids ...

  • @garysmith1863
    @garysmith1863 8 місяців тому +4

    Off topic. Anyone know the type of fish at 2:07?

  • @johnschannel449
    @johnschannel449 8 місяців тому +11

    l feel sorry for the cabin boys on the boat

    • @stuartlee6622
      @stuartlee6622 6 місяців тому +2

      They probably got f'd by LM

    • @johnschannel449
      @johnschannel449 6 місяців тому +3

      @@stuartlee6622 thats why they were onboard, l dont feel sorry for LM

    • @larkatdawn
      @larkatdawn 5 місяців тому +1

      @@johnschannel449 No escape.

  • @drewnealski969
    @drewnealski969 2 місяці тому +1

    It’s a shame that innocent lives were lost. Mountbatten, well … not so innocent.

  • @CurtYeomans-c7b
    @CurtYeomans-c7b 9 місяців тому +14

    It shoud be pointed out btw that Martin Charteris was no longer the Queen's private secretary when Lord Mountbatten died. He hadn't been her private secretary for nearly two years by that point.

    • @davidhorsley2717
      @davidhorsley2717 9 місяців тому +3

      Well said. The Queen's staff famously had to phone Whitehall to find out what had happened Mountbatten, her footman had heard the news on the radio before anyone at balmoral knew anything.

  • @mbaxter22
    @mbaxter22 Місяць тому +23

    Why is Mountbatten now remembered as a martyr? He wasn't some noble figure, not in deeds anyway.

    • @badvlogs4354
      @badvlogs4354 Місяць тому +6

      He should be remembered for overseeing the deaths and mass deportations of Indians during their partition.

    • @paulmasterson386
      @paulmasterson386 Місяць тому +3

      He fought in ww2 against the Nazis,something you obviously don’t approve of.

    • @kieranhurst8543
      @kieranhurst8543 Місяць тому +2

      @@paulmasterson386 he didn't fight shit, he sat behind the lines as brave men fought on his behalf

    • @paulmasterson386
      @paulmasterson386 Місяць тому

      @ he commanded a destroyer which was sunk in the Mediterranean. This was the inspiration behind the film “in which we serve”.