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Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas

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Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas (1900–1979)

English admiral and administrator, a great-grandson of Queen Victoria. In World War II he became chief of combined operations in 1942 and commander-in-chief in southeast Asia in 1943. As last viceroy and governor general of India 1947–48, he oversaw that country's transition to independence. He was killed by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb aboard his yacht at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland. He was knighted in 1922, became a viscount in 1945, and an earl in 1947.

He was a favourite relative of the royal family and counsellor to Prince Charles.



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