One of Lord Mountbatten's twin grandsons and a 15-year-old local boy also died in the explosion.

BBC: Files show US-UK tensions over Northern Ireland in 1979

Lord Mountbatten was a champion of Sir Christopher Cockerell's hovercraft and was on board the first cross-Solent SR.

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The murder of Lord Mountbatten by the IRA on 27 August 1979 sparked shock and anger around the world.

BBC: Files show US-UK tensions over Northern Ireland in 1979

Councillor Roger Mazillius knew Lord Mountbatten from the time when he was installed as freeman of Medina Borough in 1979.

BBC: Hampshire - Mountbatten memories 30 years on

"President Carter's message is notable for making no reference to the circumstances of Lord Mountbatten's death, " said a Foreign Office official.

BBC: Files show US-UK tensions over Northern Ireland in 1979

He was instead mentored by an uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and dispatched to a series of boarding schools in England, Germany and Scotland.

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The National Archives files show the murder of Lord Mountbatten by the IRA in 1979 did not prompt the response from the US that the UK had hoped for.

BBC: Files show US-UK tensions over Northern Ireland in 1979

In 1943, Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed World War II Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia.

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Nehru agreed, and so did the outgoing British Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten. (A pragmatist, Mountbatten noted that Kashmir was more closely linked, through religion and geography, to Pakistan than India.) As a result, the maharajah was asked to sign only a treaty of temporary accession to India.

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