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Handsome and dashing Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma,* had known many triumphs since his father's downfall. The stigma of his German ancestry had long since been erased in the process of anglicizing Battenberg to Mountbatten. Though once dismissed as a mere playboy, he had had the satisfaction in World War II of seeing his superiors seethe as he was plucked from beneath them to be made first an acting admiral and later Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia...
...grimly out to a plane at New York's International Airport for a "mystery flight" to Mexico. Both the mystery and Romaine's marriage were soon unraveled. Two days later she was back home with a jigtime Juárez divorce from the blueblooded marquess, David Michael Mountbatten, 35, who is closely related to both Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. It was not, however, the marquess' royal family ties which troubled Romaine; she had charged earlier that he was even more closely related (through connecting hotel suites) to eye-filling Hungarian Cinemactress...
...father" and the usual pocket impedimenta. His identity-card photograph was that of a man who looked like him. The letters he was os tensibly to have carried to North Africa in a plane that crashed were actually signed by high officials, two of them by Lord Louis Mountbatten. To keep the body from deteriorating on the trip to Spain, famed British Pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury prescribed that it be packed in a large canister...
Someone ventures a suggestion. "Oh no, I don't agree," says Montgomery, even though the someone may be of exalted rank. "Not the case at all. That's not professional." His eye swings around the room. "Let's hear what Admiral Mountbatten has to say about that. Dickie! Dickie! Ah, there you are. Let's hear what you think...
...They mistrust him: his politics are comparatively liberal; he plays loose with some of the stuffier conventions of the palace; he is a foreigner-a Greek prince naturalized as a British citizen; but above all, he is a Battenberg, and a nephew of the dashing, controversial Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his equally controversial wife Edwina...