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.
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.
"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.
Four people, including two children, died when the IRA detonated a bomb on Lord Mountbatten's boat off the coast of Sligo 30 years ago.
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
Mr Cundall has spent the last 17 years trying to discover the truth of claims that unused, unassembled Spitfires were packed into crates and buried by the RAF at sites in Burma on the orders of Lord Mountbatten at the end of the war in 1945.
British campaigner David Cundall has spent the last 17 years trying to discover the truth of claims that unused, unassembled Spitfires were packed into crates and buried by the RAF at sites in Burma on the orders of Lord Mountbatten at the end of the war in 1945.
Within a few decades of its founding in 1815, members used the blackball to nix the hopes of candidates who included the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Mountbatten and Sir Thomas Lipton, one of the greatest yachtsmen of the 20th century. (All eventually got in, the first two after royal intervention and Lipton only after he was in his 70s).
In 1943, Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed World War II Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia.
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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