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did you know Lord Mountbatten, whose boat was blown up by the IRA, was a pedophile rapist?

Also untouched in "The Crown" is the issue of whether or not Mountbatten was a pedophile. In his book "The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves," biographer Andrew Lownie notes that in a 1944 FBI file, Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies, said: “that in these circles, Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife are considered persons of extremely low morals.

"She stated that Lord Louis Mountbatten was known to be a homosexual with a perversion for young boys.

"In Lady Decies’ opinion he is an unfit man to direct any sort of military operations because of this condition. She stated further that his wife Lady Mountbatten was considered equally erratic.”

Further, Lownie interviewed two men who both said they were raped by Mountbatten. One was a resident at the notorious Kincora Boys Home in Belfast, which was later found to be the center of a pedophilia ring for powerful men, while the other claimed to have met Mountbatten at Classiebawn Castle, his residence in Co Sligo, a number of times in the summer he was killed.

from https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/mountbatten-alleged-pedophile-the-crown-gets-irish-history-wrong