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Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who used to belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, simplified things by joining the Church of England (now there would have to be only one wedding ceremony instead...
...Council House the Constituent Assembly heard Mountbatten take the oath as Governor General.†"Regard me as one of yourselves," he told them, "devoted wholly to the furtherance of India's interests." Then he swore in the new Indian Government. Messages of congratulation from over the world were read. The most original was a greeting in verse from Chinese Ambassador Lo Chia-luen. It read...
Partly Friendly. Then Viscount Mountbatten, clad in a dazzling white naval uniform, arrived with Lady Mountbatten. The crowd cheered him too, and a Scottish band, in kilts and Glengarry bonnets, piped a greeting. Shortly before their arrival, an Indian band, celebrating the separation of India's wandering child, had tooted somewhat tactlessly, "You'd Be Far Better Off in a Home."* Inside the Assembly Building, the Briton and the Moslem got down to the business of transferring power from the British Crown to the new dominion of Pakistan. It was a formal, cut-&-dried affair. Although Pakistan...
Jinnah and Mountbatten spoke to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly. "This is a parting between friends," said Mountbatten. "It is not an absolute parting, I rejoice to think, and not an end of comradeship...
Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten were happily assured a place they could call their own after their marriage in November. Father gave her a nice country home, Sunninghill Park, a vine-covered nest of 25 rooms, set in 300 acres near Windsor Castle...