Lord Mountbatten and his family fishing from his boat Shadow V in 1970Credit: Alamy It ripped the boat apart and killed Prince Philip's uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten, 79; his 14-year-old grandson ...

On a late summer morning in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten -- cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, World War II hero, last viceroy of India -- set off on his fishing boat from the coast of Ireland after ...

The bomb ripped apart the boat and killed Lord Louis Mountbatten, 79, instantly. All on board were blown into the water, and when Mountbatten’s body was found face-down, his legs were said to ...

A hard-hitting letter from Prince Philip slamming the IRA after they executed Lord Louis Mountbatten ... of Lord Mountbatten, who was killed by a bomb planted aboard his fishing boat in ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten circa 1930 ... Wreckage of Shadow V, Mountbatten’s boat. Patricia Knatchbull, Mountbatten’s daughter, who was aboard the boat and survived the blast, spoke in the ...

Explosive claims in a new book about an alleged paedophile ring in a boy’s home in Belfast has revealed that some boys were ...

Lord Louis Mountbatten was 79 when he was killed ... activated a bomb that had been planted on the boat. Lord Mountbatten was killed during the explosion, as was his grandson, Nicholas Brabourne ...

On a late summer morning in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten — cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, World War II hero, last viceroy of India — set off on his fishing boat from the coast of Ireland after ...

In 1979, IRA militants killed Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of England, by blowing up his boat. It was the IRA's first attack on the royal family. In 1999, two Russian ...