It is borne out of anger at systemic state cover-up on abuse at these institutions. Arthur’s decision to reveal his identity must be set against this backdrop. “Understandably many abuse survivors for reasons of obvious sensitivity choose to remain anonymous. “Central to the case are our client’s allegations of abuse by the late Lord Louis Mountbatten," said Smyth's solicitor, Kevin Winters of KRW Law, per the Irish Times. In a 2022 legal proceeding, Arthur Smyth is alleging that he was abused twice by Mountbatten, when he was 11 years old. "My sister and I my mother's lover and my father's lover, we adored them both." saying that they loved their parents' lovers "very nearly" as much as their parents.
"They each had one real lover," she said about her parents in her podcast, referencing Colonel Harold “Bunny” Phillips, her mother's companion, and a french woman, with whom her father had an affair for several decades. Lady Pamela Hicks has even commented on her parents' unusual marital arrangements. The couple did eventually have two daughters together: Patricia Knatchbull, who later became the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and Lady Pamela Hicks, mother of designers Ashley Hicks and India Hicks.
He once reportedly said, "Edwina and I spent all our married lives getting into other people's beds." Above all, they would be discreet."īoth Mountbattens had affairs, and Louis is thought by some historians to have been bisexual. But they would remain loving, mutually supportive chums. Certainly, Edwina could not be tamed, to use the language of the show, but by 1931 the couple had reportedly "cut a deal," according to the Washington Post: "They would stay together with separate beds and, to some extent, separate lives. The second chapter of The Crown centers around infidelity-rumors followed many of the couples featured on the show-but in reality Louis and Edwina Mountbatten had a rather unorthodox marriage. I realized, when you really adore someone, as fully and as hopelessly as I think you and I do, you put up with anything." "Then I imagined how thin, how poor life would be. "Of course I considered ending it," he continues. “You married a wild spirit-we both did," he says, referring to his wife Lady Edwina Ashley Mountbatten, whom he married on July 18, 1922. In a particularly tender scene in the first episode of season two of The Crown, Elizabeth II speaks candidly with Uncle Dickie about her marital woes. Lord Louis Mountbatten with his wife Edwina at Buckingham Palace in 1943.
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