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.
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.
@@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 🤦♂️
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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?
@@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!!!)
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
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
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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...
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.
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]"
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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?
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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
@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 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.
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. 😂
@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.
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...
@@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.
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.
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
My late Maltese grandfather who was a Navy veteran of the Second World War cried like a baby and had to stay in bed for three days when he heard the news.
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.
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.
@kieranhurst8543 why keep the royal family? Because they pay the government more money then we give them Also the majority of estates are literally historical buildings that would still be paid for by the government Also let's think about this like this, If the royal family doesn't make the UK money then why would Parliament keep them? Pretty sure it's like a 1:1.5 return rate or higher
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.
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.
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. 🕉 ☪️
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
is this british people's 9/11 story? seems like everyone in this comment section is begging to tell their anecdote of how they're related to a child predator
I got high with a friend and she turned this exact episode on without me ever knowing what the show was called and all I remember was feeling massive anxiety and build up and knew nothing….i did not think Charles dance was gonna get killed off
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.
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.
@@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.
I'm not from the UK or Ireland but Mountbatten really should not have been there. He knew what was going on with the Troubles and should have stayed away. The poor kids though - inexcusable.
He and his family had been holidaying there for years and were well-liked by the local community. He was long retired from government and had never been involved in any matters pertaining to the governance of Ireland or Northern Ireland. He, his mother, his daughter, son-in-law, two grandsons, and their friend, the boat boy, were all innocent. But he had been very cavalier refusing security, despite repeated warnings from both Ireland and the UK. The cowardly IRA men watched the boat leave the harbour and despite seeing and knowing that entirely innocent women and children were onboard triggered the bomb by remote control. The attack was widely condemned throughout Ireland, as well as in Britain.
@@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. Also, out of all the groups in the troubles, the British Army had the highest rate of murders of civilians. Second were the loyalist British, and third were the IRA
I remember that Mountbatten had quite a long television series on BBC where he give an account of his career. It must have been in one of the last episodes where he was shown at this place on the West coast of Ireland - he was seen making sandcastles with his grandchildren on the beach at one point. At the time I did get the feeling that it was slightly odd that he should have been there. I have often wondered whether because of that episode showing such a well-known royal who apparently often spent holidays there, that it was just too blatent for the IRA and it was a target they could no longer ignore. Much later there was a programme on Radio Four, where the Irish authorities gave their side of the story. It was a shock for them as well and initially they weren't at all sure about how to handle their British counterparts. Building trust and confidence between the two sides wasn't easy. There had been rumours that the IRA were planning what they called 'a spectacular', but it had been impossible, even for the Gardai, to predict when and where.
@@reynaldoflores4522 I don’t care if they have a warehouse full of AK’s they got from the USSR like on Lord of War movie. It’s a scratched barrel!! It’s cringe. 😥🍻🇺🇸
It was a bank holiday Monday. The whole family had got together for a picnic. I was a kid and had never heard of Mountbatten. My cousin arrived and announced what had happened. Everyone went very quiet. First bit of news I remember really. This and Warrenpoint.
Yes two very well Planned operations that the IRA said they did them in payback for the Murder of Innocent People on Bloody Sunday at a Civil Rights march that had been peaceful before the Parachute Regiment started firing It was the biggest recruiter for the IRA and the World was appalled when those pictures of the Priest with the bloodied handkerchief trying to get the Soldiers to stop firing at the cowering People . The whole ugly business was white washed by the then Government but the free World knew what had really happened and the Crime was apologised for in later years when the Peace process was achieved for that troubled land .
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
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.
oohhh well done you.
Oh boy you can type compleat and utter dribble.
@@lordeden2732And you cannot spell correctly.
@@NorthColingood
Amazing writing. Good eye too. Most people never notice things like that in film.
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"
Really?
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.
@@MegaSpideyman Don't be a dick.
How would they know you are a catholic? 😮
@@archaeoPeter They know
4:19 Going from silence to noisy endcard, should be a crime in editing
You’d hate what Jujutsu Kaisen did after a massive disaster 😅
@@Revster why do you think your anime is relevant to this TV show for adults?
@@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 🤦♂️
@@Revster Why do you think your mediocre anime is comparable to this TV show for adults?
@@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
You never expect the assassin to be a lobster, but that's just how crazy things got at this time in history.
That lobster waited 800 years to get at English nobility
Thus began the great lobster wars that would shape the modern world
@@James-ju4gjAll hail lobster
There was nothin' we could do. The lobster was a made guy, and Francis wasn't.
@@jackmclean4120 Waddaya mean "he's gone?"
I love how the queen sees the vehicles coming and just knows it can't be good news.
Well sadly, she had a history of getting bad news on vacation!
It was in the script 🤷🏼♂️
They wouldn’t disturb her otherwise
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
Likely MI5 did it, Mountbatten had a very shameful personal life that would have destroyed the British establishment.
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.
The conflicts at the periphery of empire always make their way to the imperial core eventually
Did you have no Blacks no Irish no dogs sigh?
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.
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?
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.
The cinematography, the score, the editing, the sound mixing, the subtle use of visual effects - God, this show had a strong crew!
My understanding is that Mountbatten was a bad guy and a bad officer as well.
@@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?
@@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!!!)
alright Nigel - yeah i enjoyed working on this with you mate ;-) see ya Wednesday
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
Olivia is a superb actress. From funny roles (Peep Show) to something as serious as this. What a lovely lady.
Check out her episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Marvellous.
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
@@lordeden2732 Wow, this sounds personal. BTW, she is also an Oscar winner.
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.
Should *have
Thank Heaven for that!!
Yeah, the boat handler was lying to you - it's a story all the old codgers like to tell tourists.
@@claremontcowboy7409goes along with the carpenter's "I did cabinetry for the royal family"
It wasn't the IRA, but another group.
Sadly, the female lobster was not, in fact, able to go have her babies in peace.
Your attempt at humor is disgustingly in poor taste.
@@johndoerner8790 I disagree, for I am hiiiiighly amused.
High IQ level comedy 😂
Cynical humor is the laziest of all humor; Apparently that describes your taste, and intelligence.
@chrishamblett945 . Actually very low level. Maybe you laugh at " Fart " jokes. You probably do.
Production values were strong with this one. Done with drama and sensitivity, don’t forget two young lads died that day too.
20, 18 soldiers are said to also have been killed and then there are all the Irish people that no doubt also died
I am rather suspicious of old men who go out on small boats with unrelated young boys.
@@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.
Destroyed the tourism In Leitrim and Sligo with the English fishermen
@@bobh2610 Slava Ukraine it wasnt Russians..
No matter what you think about mountbatten you have to agree that those two children were innocent
As were all the children he abused
@@Ck-zk3we 👍I wanted to say that.
@@Ck-zk3wechildren are not expendable. Period.
@@Ck-zk3weWhat did he do?
@@wthwasthat8884 OMG, that bastard! Thanks for explaining.
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.
Amazing how evil war and strife can turn ordinary people.
Mountbatten was a dreadful man, though a great shame others died with him on that boat.
Mountbatten was a nonce.
@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.
They killed children. They were no better than the British.
Olivia Colman is such an awesome actor. her presence makes almost anything watchable!
Actress
@@truthslayer1372 i prefer to say actor. she is in the "overall greatness of acting" category
@@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.
@@cooganalaska3249 piss off, olivia is great
@@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.
Charles Dance is like 0-2 against the Irish.
800 year lead kidda lmao
0-3 if you count Eddie Murphy taking out Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child. I mean, he is named Murphy...right?
@@vangroover1903 Ha ha ha ha golden
@@TH3CAPN Yeah, Charles Dance is 800 years old
@@austinhuber3131 whoosh
One of the most perfectly paced scenes I have ever seen.
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.
@@Kirbyoto2098why the hate?
@@JimJam8008well earned hate.
@@DiscopediaTheBoogieManhow's that working out for you 😂. Remember its called ulster
@@JimJam8008 Because the brits are colonizers.
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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.
If it’s really true to history it would mention that Mountbatten was a pervert
It was an explosive season opener, for sure. I wonder if they were worried the series was starting to bomb?
Cany believe the lobster was a IRA assassin
His name is Larry. The IRA promised to buy him a weight set so he didn't have to use anchor arms anymore.
What a twist
A very unshelfish act
Can’y
Gross
"oh dear, it's never good when they come in packs like this."
Such a well acted line and for some reason weirdly funny
Brits travelling in jeeps was always bad news ... mostly for them
Olivia Coleman is brilliant in this scene. Consider her facial expression: Shock, anger, grief . . . all at once.
and Margaret Thatcher's, her face shows all the same!
From the perspective of the lobster, this was a comedy.
Except that all but one of the lobsters was blown up and even that one may not have been far enough away to survive.
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.
Apart from the tinnitus it suffered the rest of its life.
I heard lord Mountbatten was a pedo
lobster died from the pressure wave
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.
Boy, it must have felt like he had just dropped a bomb........
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 ..
Should have been in jail for attempting a coup
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.
He was a real Navy man, fancied himself sailor boys to have some buggery with.
@CheeseScout What do you think comes after rum and before the lash?
He was involved in Human Trafficking in India too btw.
Poor wee lads didn't deserve that.
Yeah. Cowards way honestly
@@Azazel2024ira saved them kids from that nonce
@@Azazel2024cowards are the British terrorists calling the Ira terrorists.
@terenceflanagan1225 how is it cowardice when things like the Raf exist
@@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...
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.
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]"
@@patstratpicker5889 A foolish badly planned debacle and it was ordered by Churchill and Mountbatten to placate that Butcher Stalin !
He was responsible for 1000’s of deaths.
@@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.
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.
@@fallschirmjager0000 I don't doubt anything was possible, but my friend remembers him fondly. No one is all good or all bad.
Gen. Aung San certainly thought so, as they worked out the handover in Burma. They got along very well.
He was a nonce ffs
He molested a child. He wasn't a ,,kind" man.
Nothing could be done, the lobster was a made man and Mountbatten wasn't.
My heart breaks for the grandson who survived. It had to be awful, losing one's twin.
Reverence and condolence to all those who died in the troubles and their families. May this terrible blight never return to our country.
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.
I'm so sorry this happened to you. Lone twin should never be a thing ❤much love
@SadieKay1 I appreciate the sentiment, thank you.
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.
I don't care for Mountbatten, but I feel sorry for those poor boys
I feel sorry for the other ones that went out on his boat. Definitely had some not consenting “buggery” going on.
me too
I remember this happening when I was a child, with my parents watching it on the news
Me too, I was 11.
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.
Ouch don't mention children and Mountbatten...
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 uggg, went on a little Wikipedia rabbit hole :(
not pleastant.
@@AdamBechtol quite sickening right?
Next to wiki is British concentration camps in Kenya AFTER WW2
British establishment has yet to officially acknowledge mountbattens connection with children
Care to elaborate for us Yanks who don't keep up with the Royals.
Look up mountbatton and kincora boys home.
@@Champs67-sg1mi literally one reporter made a claim with zero evidence. Most likely a load of bullshit.
@@kirkwhite8600 I thought you guys could read English. He had a connection to children. You think you can work that out?
@@morerobotwarscontent1476my gosh.. it was an honest question.. calm the f down girlfriend
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).
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.
Nobody cares
@@RobK32 Well I suppose when you make comments like that it's not surprising nobody cares what you think.
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?
@@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
@@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.
on that day i was with my father in that place ..sad for the two innocent boys.
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.
Charles Dance is one of my favorite actors loved him as Tywin and in this show.
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.
Two innocent little boys died that day.
Mountbatten abused and murdered very many little boys throughout his life.
Lord Mountbatten had a deep "understanding" of the plight of young boys.
@@Yeggman😮
And their murderer lives free today
@@Yeggmanexcuse me?
strange they dont mention how mountbatten diddled all the little boys he invited out on the boat
there's a reason for that, liar.
@@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.
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
@@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
Him and Ted heath
Mountbatten had a unsavoury reputation
he was a pedo
Like many of these so called Royals in England
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.
He was a paedo.
@@doctor_gibbo1392 LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's one lucky Lobster!
That's GOTTA hurt!
The underwater shockwave of the explosion would have unfortunately gotten her too.
@@MemoirsofaBasketcase thank God we have a marine biologist here. I'll definitely take some TH-cam snots word for it
@@ConroyMatheson Are you ok dear?
@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.
During this scene, all the royals are trying to kill things. Hmmmm.
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)
That wasn't an accident by the writer or director.
No the irony is that they were all out hunting and so was the IRA
The hunters become the hunted.
Una rappresentazione inequivocabile della Legge di Simultaneità di Causa ed Effetto
They killed Tywin lannister.
@@vangroover1903 I gotta go back and rewatch the series just because.
At least he wasn't on the bog this time.
Tywin Lannister was less evil.
and now the rain weep o'er his halls
That fate was too good for Mountbatten, the savage.
But the boys were innocent.
@@MajoradeMayhem there are no Royal civilians.
@@Jesse-qy6ur Paul Maxwell was a 15 year old from Enniskillen and wasn't royal, you sociopath.
@@Jesse-qy6ur Get a life
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.
These IRA killers were largely funded by the USA.
There was a lot of back and forth between US and Ireland during that time. Had some family involved in some of that stuff.
I know someone else similar happened to. It was based on their surname. The police were looking for specific Irish names.
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.
@@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.
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.
They had no need to apologise.
@02june80 Not terrorism, but a resistance movement.
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.
@@Damon-p9u You're right. I found it a little bewildering at the time.
@@Damon-p9u Yes they did. Mountbatten was not a combatant. The IRA were terrorists.
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.
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.
@@AK-dr8we Jesus you're smart, ain't ya?
That is a ridiculous allegation.
I have never in my life cared a bit about the British royal family. This is one of best series ever made though. Masterpiece on every level.
I was not aware that two innocent children were also killed - a terrible shame, terrible !
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.
@@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"
@@andywilliams7323
How many innocent boys lives did Mountbottom ruin in his lifetime?
@@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.
There is no shame in dying for freedom we should all be so lucky
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. 😂
@totoroidJapanese stay getting melted by fat man 🌬️
I wonder did any of his "boys" from Kincora Boys School attend his funeral.
@totoroid sounds like cope lad
@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.
Yeah. Jinnah wasn't being obtuse he was being deliberate. He loathed Mountbatten and his wife who was openly flirting with Nehru.
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...
And my ancestors were starved out of Sligo. Starved.
Sad for the innocent people who were with him😮
If the lobster survived i would say his hearing would be badly impaired
I read he clawed his way out of the wreckage
“ Ay?”
@@vangroover1903 Ouch!
Pretty sure lobsters are deaf by default
Lobsters hear using cuticular "hairfans " prevalent along the entire length of their bodies .
I love how the two IRA men make off in a car registered in Great Britain. Nobody will notice!
The attention to detail was perfect. All the Land Rovers were pre-1980s models too.
Well they’re from Northern Ireland so I would be a uk registered car
@@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.
The horrific sideburns are a dead giveaway I’m afraid
@@hughofIreland You win
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.
Any links to that please?
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
Smh. Sick
Exactly
Was the brothel at least called Malteasers????
My late Maltese grandfather who was a Navy veteran of the Second World War cried like a baby and had to stay in bed for three days when he heard the news.
People who harm children ,should receive no sympathy
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.
Like the royals?
Yup ,in this case ,both the IRA and Royals are guilty.
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.
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 IRA were just message senders.
Mountbatten was an old man with no power in the UK. What did the killers expect to gain from his murder?
He still hand on political power and he include in killing innocent
They expected killing kids gave them clout.
@@human_rights0he really didn't anymore, those days were long past, he was pretty much retired at this point
@@datcheesecakeboi6745 so why keep them around at all? why let them drain taxes paying for their estates?
@kieranhurst8543 why keep the royal family? Because they pay the government more money then we give them
Also the majority of estates are literally historical buildings that would still be paid for by the government
Also let's think about this like this, If the royal family doesn't make the UK money then why would Parliament keep them? Pretty sure it's like a 1:1.5 return rate or higher
What’s white and flies over the ocean?
Lord Mountbatten’s tennis shoes
Or lord mountbatten
The FBI certainly didn’t have nice things to say about Mountbatten.
Why is Mountbatten now remembered as a martyr? He wasn't some noble figure, not in deeds anyway.
He should be remembered for overseeing the deaths and mass deportations of Indians during their partition.
He fought in ww2 against the Nazis,something you obviously don’t approve of.
@@paulmasterson386 he didn't fight shit, he sat behind the lines as brave men fought on his behalf
@ he commanded a destroyer which was sunk in the Mediterranean. This was the inspiration behind the film “in which we serve”.
Thanks for the laugh, i needed that.
First British man in space.
Second to the Irishman who got turned to mist
@@TH3CAPNDoesn’t even make sense
@@Nathan-bd6cq maybe to ur frail little paddy mind aye
ha ha fucking ha
@@Vvv-1690And babies in prams
LORD MOUNTBOYS! 100s of kids were saved from him! What is it with the royals and buggering 🤣
It bothered me they murdered innocent people to get him. Have more guts and face him alone . Those boys didn't deserve that
The English should've left faster. Tiocfaidh ar la!
@@traaztek1996 That's a cold and terrible response.
@@traaztek1996 waa waaa we cant eat potatoes, imagine being conquered by boats, christ what fuckin losers
As someone who is half Irish (Cork) half Italian even the mafia doesn’t go after children
@@traaztek1996 so you could get on with filling the place up with Africans lol
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.
Every royal is a shitbag.
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.
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. 🕉 ☪️
@@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.
@@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.
"13 gone and not forgotten, we got 18 and Mountbatten"
Try and develop a culture not centred around despising the British lmao , past is the past move on
@@theirishcenturion8347 They did.....after they pasted the British and got a settlement.
@@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.
@@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.
@evsal8087 no, they actually didn't
There was nothing they could have done. The lobster was a made man and Mountbatten wasn't.
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.
Picture with a paedophile?
Guess they were safe around Mountbatten as long as the cameras were rolling…
There's always one comment. Super pathetic
@@ConroyMathesonwhich comment ?
@@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.
Just so you know Mountbatten had a taste for young boys.
Boiled with a side mint sauce ?
Allegedly, yeah.
Nothing new considering one of the Royals was Jeffrey Epstein best friend
too soon 😅
Ironic, the IRA being Catholic should’ve related to that
The production quality of this show is second to none.
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.
Scum of the earth.
GOD SAVE THE KING
Paul Maxwell, aged 14. Still, the family loyalty to that shampoo brand is remarkable. It turns out Diana used it, too.
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.
@@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.
Old joke, from when Jaws came out a few years before.
I was in Ireland when this happened it rocked the country.
Those were explosive times............
No it didn’t. It rocked the boat only.
The man who set off the bomb is now living a quiet life in County Monaghan, Ireland.
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.
So, a sort of backdoor solution...........phrasing aside.
Maybe the UK supplied the UK registered car :)
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.
He was known to frequent the Kincora Boys School.
@@jonathansteadman7935 ...and engaging with Indian boys. Hence the contempt of both Hindus and Mos for him.
One poor innocent lobster died that day.
I live in Sligo where this happened.
Travesty for the innocents. Mountbatten, however, is a less sympathetic character. He got away with much that a less connected man would not.
Sligo mentioned! 🏁🏁🏁🏁
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Her range as an actress is unlimited....
What about the dozen and a half queens own that got blown away that very day
What about them?
@@charlesbaer9971 dont see anyone making noise on their behalf
@@johnmurdoch8534 Ok.
My dad was offered the job of being Lord Mountbatten's navigator after WWII. He passed so that he could marry my mom.
You also don't want to support Eppstein and Co
is this british people's 9/11 story? seems like everyone in this comment section is begging to tell their anecdote of how they're related to a child predator
@@solarprogeny6736 I had no idea that Seamus Marley had so many relatives
@@solarprogeny6736 My dad was a Yank.
I got high with a friend and she turned this exact episode on without me ever knowing what the show was called and all I remember was feeling massive anxiety and build up and knew nothing….i did not think Charles dance was gonna get killed off
First time seeing somebody pull a lobster creel and stay dry
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.
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.
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 !
Did it mention in the book that he had a thing for kids?
@@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.
@@Saywhatnow-o3w You seem to have an obsession. You might want to get help for that.
@@SajidKhan-mf8ts and the paedophilia?
@@SajidKhan-mf8tsSo that's a no then?
Cinematography is top notch
Mountbatten had the Prince Andrew streak in him. That’s why he was chosen. Allegedly.
And Republicans have that streak in them too it seems, all paedos together.
A thousand years of blood history in the British Isles. And nary a "Sorry".
I'm not from the UK or Ireland but Mountbatten really should not have been there. He knew what was going on with the Troubles and should have stayed away. The poor kids though - inexcusable.
He and his family had been holidaying there for years and were well-liked by the local community. He was long retired from government and had never been involved in any matters pertaining to the governance of Ireland or Northern Ireland. He, his mother, his daughter, son-in-law, two grandsons, and their friend, the boat boy, were all innocent. But he had been very cavalier refusing security, despite repeated warnings from both Ireland and the UK. The cowardly IRA men watched the boat leave the harbour and despite seeing and knowing that entirely innocent women and children were onboard triggered the bomb by remote control. The attack was widely condemned throughout Ireland, as well as in Britain.
@@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.
Also, out of all the groups in the troubles, the British Army had the highest rate of murders of civilians. Second were the loyalist British, and third were the IRA
@@andywilliams7323 That is true but it was still extremely sensitive during that period. @markp1549 is correct in that.
I remember that Mountbatten had quite a long television series on BBC where he give an account of his career. It must have been in one of the last episodes where he was shown at this place on the West coast of Ireland - he was seen making sandcastles with his grandchildren on the beach at one point. At the time I did get the feeling that it was slightly odd that he should have been there. I have often wondered whether because of that episode showing such a well-known royal who apparently often spent holidays there, that it was just too blatent for the IRA and it was a target they could no longer ignore. Much later there was a programme on Radio Four, where the Irish authorities gave their side of the story. It was a shock for them as well and initially they weren't at all sure about how to handle their British counterparts. Building trust and confidence between the two sides wasn't easy. There had been rumours that the IRA were planning what they called 'a spectacular', but it had been impossible, even for the Gardai, to predict when and where.
Dang, scratching up that rifle barrel on the rock. 😢
I know! People don’t respect or care for things they haven’t earned.
Was thinking the same 😂
It made me cringe. 😬
They probably have dozens of them .
@@reynaldoflores4522 I don’t care if they have a warehouse full of AK’s they got from the USSR like on Lord of War movie. It’s a scratched barrel!! It’s cringe. 😥🍻🇺🇸
Nice to see Tywin Lannister has found a new passtime
Olivia Colman portrayed The Queen quite well
It was a bank holiday Monday. The whole family had got together for a picnic. I was a kid and had never heard of Mountbatten. My cousin arrived and announced what had happened. Everyone went very quiet. First bit of news I remember really. This and Warrenpoint.
Yes two very well Planned operations that the IRA said they did them in payback for the Murder of Innocent People on Bloody Sunday at a Civil Rights march that had been peaceful before the Parachute Regiment started firing It was the biggest recruiter for the IRA and the World was appalled when those pictures of the Priest with the bloodied handkerchief trying to get the Soldiers to stop firing at the cowering People . The whole ugly business was white washed by the then Government but the free World knew what had really happened and the Crime was apologised for in later years when the Peace process was achieved for that troubled land .
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
She needed to be needed. And Charles didn't NEED her, as he was a grown ass man when they got married.
@@ER-uy7ct A grown ass simpering man child.
Charles still IS NOT a grown ass man. Anyone that thinks he is, is a fool.
OFFS, let it go.
@@ER-uy7ct Just let it go FFS. Stop harping on other people's lives and worry about your own.
What a creative way to film that. Tywin cant catch a break can he?
Never watched this show, but watching now - the cinematography is superb. well done!