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Last Viceroy - 27 August 1979 the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten

At 11 and 45 of a clear late summer day the IRA blows up the fishing boat on which is the last Viceroy of India, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten , great-grandson of Queen Victoria and uncle of Prince Philip's husband of Elizabeth II. With him on the boat are his daughter Patricia, son in law Lord Brabourne, the mother of these, the twin sons of the couple and a man of the crew. The Shadow V, which is located off before Mullaghmore in County Sligo , a small village on the northwest coast of Ireland , disintegrates into a thousand pieces and passengers are violently thrown into the sea. Patricia Mountbatten, her husband and one of the twins were seriously ill, the old Lady Brabourne will survive until the next day, but for Lord Mountbatten, for the second grandchild for the boy and the crew there's nothing to do. E 'August 27, 1979. So ends the adventurous life of one of the most fascinating men, discussed, criticized and loved the twentieth century, military and diplomatic race, hyperactive and never short on ideas, great polo player, a lover of luxury cars and movie fan . But also vain and sensitive to the honor and self satisfaction. Un uomo incredibile sotto molti punti di vista. La polizia lo aveva avvisato che, di quei tempi, passare un mese d’estate nel suo castello irlandese di Classiebawn non era una buona idea, ma lui aveva replicato “chi vorrebbe mai uccidere un vecchio come me?”. Certo, l’ex vicerè ormai anziano è privo di incarichi ufficiali, ma è pur sempre un grande personaggio ed un membro eminente (ed ascoltatissimo) della famiglia reale inglese. E il botto produce l’effetto sperato perché tutto il mondo sa chi e cosa è stato lord Mountbatten.

Il principe Louis di Battemberg con la moglie Vittoria di Assia-Darmstadt e i figli, da sinistra Louisa, Alice, Louis e George

Louis è il quarto figlio di Vittoria di Assia-Darmstadt e Louis di Battemberg, tedeschi di origine, ma non di abitudini, simpatie e frequentazioni, Lei è una delle numerose nipoti della regina Vittoria e il piccolo nato il 25 giugno 1900 è l’ultimo bisnipote che l’ormai anziana sovrana inglese ha la gioia di tenere fra le braccia. Il padre del neonato è anche lui un Assia-Darmstadt, ma di un ramo cadetto e morganatico, che non avendo molte prospettive nella terra natale, sceglie l’Inghilterra come sua seconda patria e si arruola nella Royal Navy, dove fa una carriera strepitosa fino a diventare “Primo Lord dell’Ammiragliato”, incarico che deve abbandonare the outbreak of World War precisely because of its Germanic origins. A pain and a snub to Prince Louis, by the way (following the example of the royal family that Saxe-Coburg-Gotha becomes Windsor) decides to cancel the German's in him and his family. The Battemberg become Mountbatten, abandon the Germanic titles and become "simple" English aristocracy, the Marquis of Milford Haven. And the blood relatives but not control, and despite the downturn, the Mountbatten remain at the top of the British social status, both as direct descendants of Queen Victoria that the tight constraints with all the royal families of Europe. Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain was born Battemberg (daughter of a brother of Louis-father and a daughter of Queen Victoria), while Alice and Louise, the older sisters of the future Lord Mountbatten, a married Prince Andrew of Greece and one Gustavo Adolf, later King of Sweden. But not enough, Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt is the oldest sister of the last Empress of Russia, Alexandra, and Louis is a cousin of the four grand duchesses unfortunate that perish nell'eccidio of Ekaterimburg. The young lord Louis acquaintances (which everyone calls the family to distinguish him from his father Dickie) are, like, prestigious, and he will always do so in the years to keep these connections alive. And as if all this is not enough Dickie also has an incredible beauty, a great liveliness of wit and charm that conquers all and all. In addition there will a brilliant intellect and a very little town, in addition to a very good account of himself that makes him say "I have a congenital weakness of thinking I can do anything." A security that allows him to skip with remarkable nonchalance many seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

July 18, 1922 marriage to Edwina Ashley

Certainly the "hooks" real and the fact Edwina Ashley to have married the charming nephew and heir of the wealthy banker Sir Ernest Cassel, help him, but certainly Dickie Mountbatten is not what one might call an idle aristocrat. Following in the footsteps of his father, Lord Mountbatten takes a step of charging a brilliant career in the Royal Navy, but his military duties did not prevent him from leading a hectic social life, often alongside the great figures of the time, not least his friend and cousin, the Prince of Wales future Edward VIII, who, before marriage, accompanied by a couple of trips. Thanks to the wealth of his wife Dickie may be granted several luxuries, including splendid mansions in the fashionable resort stays, car, expensive clothes, easements, but the union, despite the birth of two daughters, Patricia and Pamela, is not happy. The authoritarian nature of perfectionism and obsessions of his ill-combined with the restlessness that often leaves her family for long expeditions or adventures in faraway places in holiday fashion, often in the company of friends and friends because Edwina seems to be curious is that of one of the other sex.
wrote his official biographer Richard Hough, "perhaps should have anticipated that Mountbatten Edwina - rich, physically and emotionally volatile, often alone in London, often bored and a large crowd of friends - would sooner or later tried to distract himself with other men . Forse preferisce per un certo tempo fingere di non sapere o non vedere”. In un primo tempo accusa il colpo, ma il futuro eroe e vicerè dell’India, è anche un uomo dalla sessualità complicata e probabilmente anche discretamente incerta. “In amore era un ingenuo – prosegue Hough – ma l’atto sessuale in se stesso non fu mai molto importante per lui. Adorava sentirne parlare, insomma apprezzava il sesso più in teoria che in pratica, più a parole che a fatti e senza dubbio possedeva una forte tendenza al voyeurismo. Gli piaceva essere informato sulle infedeltà degli amici e, più tardi, quando ebbe accettato la situazione, si faceva raccontare da Edwina le sue avventure e ne era fiero. La prepotente sensualità della moglie lo affascinava anche se non era in grado di soddisfarla completamente”. Mountbatten è comprensivo anche se il suo smisurato orgoglio ne soffre e a poco servono le storie che intreccia con alcune signore del bel mondo. Ad ogni modo lord e lady Mountbatten sono quella che oggi definiremmo una “coppia aperta” e molto libera. D’altronde il matrimonio conviene a tutti e due, Dickie, che non ha beni di famiglia, vive della sua paga di ufficiale di marina, ma ha gusti dispendiosi (il polo per esempio, gioco che scopre negli anni ‘20 durante un viaggio in India con il principe di Galles, e contribuirà a diffondere in Inghilterra), Edwina figlia di un aristocratico inglese e nipote di un banchiere ebreo, thanks to Mountbatten enters into the true and unrivaled higt royal society and there will not move anymore. And then at the end of the life of Lord Louis, totally directed towards another passion that erases and cancels all others: his early career in the Royal Navy where an officer is considered priceless and many talents. Captain of the frigate was only 31 years, in 1934 obtained the command of a ship and only then admits to feeling "very important". A 41 is an admiral, "with an advance of more than two years in Nelson," noted with some satisfaction.

Lord Mountbatten during the years of World War II

the late '30s the two are a pair of jet set, elegant, fashionable, sought after, attending the European royalty, but also movie stars like Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. Dickie and Edwina are now friends of the actor during their long honeymoon in 1922 and Chaplin turns with them on that occasion a short silent film, "Nice and Friendly" then that's unusual and original features such as a wedding gift. Meanwhile, the family grew practices because Mountbatten's grandson Philip of Greece. The boy is the son of his sister Alice and Prince Andrew of Greece, for various reasons, they are apathetic as lost sono nei loro problemi.

E’ con lo scoppio della II Guerra Mondiale che la vita dei Mountbatten cambia per sempre. Edwina, chiude la casa di lusso nel centro di Londra, dimentica le feste e gli abiti chic, e indossa la divisa della Saint John’s Ambulance Brigade della quale diventa instancabile ed efficientissima coordinatrice.

Dickie, già eroe della battaglia di Creta con il suo cacciatorpediniere HMS Kelly, con cui prima dell’affondamento nel 1941 effettua molte azioni coraggiose, viene nominato da Churchill comandante delle operazioni combinate in Europa e poi capo supremo delle forze alleate nel sud-est asiatico. E il 12 settembre 1945 è Mountbatten a ricevere a Singapore the unconditional surrender of the Japanese. Energetic and courageous man, an excellent organizer, much loved by his men (with the exception of Canadians after the failure of the much criticized Dieppe raid of August 19, 1942), with which team can do, highlighting the talents and team spirit , which Mountbatten in his impeccable white uniform of the Navy is looking like a movie star, became a symbol and an example. His inspections always end with a speech to the troops and the soldiers and officers who are conquered by his words, his being friendly with everyone. A lieutenant says: "I will never forget the way I looked, no one looked me straight in the eye as well. It 'was a unique experience. "

The time is ripe for another job that is almost a mission impossible.

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ps this time there are links for sites dealing with Lord Moutbatten are all in English and biography on Wikipedia, I'm sorry to say, is full of errors even coarse. In episode # 2 will insert a bibliography at least in Italian. However the story of the destroyer Kelly inspired the film "Heroes of the Sea" (1942) Direct by Noel Coward and David Lean.

2 ps - thanks to Tweety, now constant and faithful reader of this blog, here is the link some frames of Nice and Friendly film shot by Chaplin for the couple Mountbatten.

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Royal Tour's traveling clothes of Elizabeth II

we're on the holiday season and for many it's time to pack your bags here are some tips straight from the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II. Okay you are traveling with trunks and waitresses (and with its water staff, his favorite blend of tea and a donut with white leather covers wc) then it is difficult to draw on their gifts luggage, but when I saw the site of the exhibition The Royal Tour ( here ) currently being held in Buckingham Palace and having looked at the pictures I thought that perhaps many times inelegance sbadierata and criticized the legendary Queen is probably a myth, put about even with a pinch of malice by those who perhaps would have his class and did not have it. In the halls of the royal residence in London were collected a series of memories of the trip that the Queen has made over the past 60 years in various Commonwealth countries. In addition to gifts, souvenirs, curiosities is a rich section dedicated to clothing made for the queen by Norman Hartnell, Hardy Amies and Ian Thomas in mind not only the taste of the real client, but also the traditions and sensibilities (and attached susceptibility) of the countries visited. The patterns are classic, quiet colors, but there is a clear focus the evolution of fashion and style from the '50s, '50s and '70s. I mean nothing to the glamorous Lady D. but very chic and good taste, as befits the world's most famous queen.

ps I know this time you give up only news items, announcements of exhibitions, reports the Sunday of the sea some characters' way. Be patient, we say they are in semi-holiday, but under the umbrella (parking lot where I just finished my daily chores with very little exciting local news) I read, study, deepen, and then to return for new there will be. Meanwhile, two pieces of information, a service and the other royal:

1 - January 12, 2009 you went from here to 20,000, not bad;

2 - Sweden came the news that Madeleine, the blonde, beautiful and glamorous younger sister of Crown Princess Victoria, married her boyfriend Jonas historical Bengston a lawyer. As in families with a decent time before you have to marry the eldest then follow the other wheel. I had already spoken here and here with its comments on the real beauty of the intending spouses.

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Around Green Island


gratitude to Ryanair and fitted with hand luggage only landing in Dublin in the evening.
After consuming the first meal so Irish, we head to the desk where the Murray's there waiting for the smiling lady Micra and especially the bright red steering wheel on the right.
Around the airport there are road works everywhere, especially that enriches the pathos and cursing my first few miles of driving on the left.
We booked a room in a hotel on the Naas Road. We come with discrete problems. The first rain greets us: ok we are in ireland. We put to bed, the holiday will start tomorrow.

Day 1
we wake up soon, we pay for the room, we climb into the car, looking for a place to have breakfast (tea and sweets) and we are lucky because there we have to pay the M50. For the uninitiated, the M50 is a sort of ring road of Dublin without pay toll. Rate (3 euros for the car) you can pay in gas stations, newsstands-market acceptance.

The first stop on our tour is Cill Chainnigh (Kilkenny), for beer, but also because it was the medieval capital. We arrive mid-morning. Parking, for a fee. The town is tiny and runs nicely on foot. The steps required are the castle and the cathedral with the adjacent park and cemetery with plenty of Celtic crosses.
the rain with us and take refuge in Kyteler's Inn, a pub former coaching town in 1300 by Alice Kyteler, a witch who escaped the stake. Eat. Ah yes, good food and lots. 'Sti huge pieces of meat, well cooked,' ste potatoes, 'sti contours. All good. The pubs of Ireland eat well throughout the holiday. Of course we drink Smithwick's and Kilkenny. I am ashamed to ask for "a glass" for Loretta. They come to drink two pints I mercilessly. Ripasseggiamo for Kieran's Street because Lorenzo is looking for a coffee, his goodness. It accontenterrà a pastarelle stuffed something that will last up to Cill Airne (Killarney).

The ride (200 km), due to persistent downpour, is long and tiring. But the green land is already in our hearts. The LHD is always more pleasant. I get used on drill round to overtake the tractor, the sheep by the roadside, but I still find it difficult to turn right. The trees sometimes form natural galleries, waterproof, glossy. Here's a trickle, another that magically across the street. The vegetation is more dense: who knows where I'm going, then the road opens up, pops out a pub with three houses around, disappears behind, now a school, a cemetery. I keep wondering why this seems normal to me so wonderfully. Even stop to pee behind a tree is normal and wonderful.
We arrive in Killarney in mid-afternoon, we reach the B & B and after a quick shower we are already out, headed to the immense park meadows, woods, lakes and castles. Walk that will last hours and will enhance our surprise baby. The humble perfection of nature, the serenity that gives us. It will only be in the evening and I will share the first Loredana pints of Guinness. We have to the festive air that you breathe only in the emerald island pub. The talk with the Irish, with the tourists, with the classic folk group that organizes two square meters in a super concert. Ideally staggering and with the full bladder, the more that I loredana, back to little house, dreaming of a full Irish breakfast.

Day 2
sausages, mushrooms, eggs, bacon and beans (the latter barely touched) are a good fuel to start the day. Killarney is a good bunt base for touring the Ring of Kerry circuit of about 180 km around the Iveragh Peninsula which offers the usual, never dull and always the most exciting, evocative scenes. Ocean and mountains, barren coasts, cliffs, fishing villages off the beaten trails, rerouting unknown. The Ring of Kerry is well taken: the parties focus maybe two or three points to watch, and then you make your instincts. Breathtaking views, we stop a thousand and one and a thousand and one time we turn between moors and high mountains. Views of lakes, distant houses, sheep on the road sculettano happy and slow down the pace, the already very stiff micra. And then get in the top of the hill, the world at your feet, the wind that makes you cry first and then wipes her tears.
eat, and will be the best dining, fresh seafood and delicious. We went to the charm. Houses painted in bright colors, happy as the people that live there.
In the evening we tired, we are in Tralee, swear not to have a navigator, who knows where our new B & B.


Day 3 We wake up refreshed. The B & B we found it, but do not remember exactly how.
The nice lady asked me to salmon and eggs: how to refuse. Scrambled eggs with salmon will remain my favorite breakfast. Loredana choose some good pancakes with fresh fruit and jams. Juice, yogurt and tea. Obviously rake it all. Well as homemade biscuits. Tralee should be one step closer al Clare, la regione delle Cliffs of Moher, le Scogliere. In realtà la signora ci consiglia di non tralasciare il tour del Ring di Dingle, altra penisola dai paesaggi incantevoli. Decidiamo che ce la possiamo fare. Partiamo a razzo. La giornata è anche soleggiata, di un sole timido, ma di una luce intensa. I monti si fanno più aspri e ovviamente le spettacolari viste dietro l'angolo ancora più sconvolgenti. Ci fermiamo a mangiare qualcosa, anche un gelato fatto in casa, in un bar a picco sull'oceano. Tra forti dell'età del ferro, capanne cristiane e croci pagane la natura si fa arrogante, invincibile. I segnali stradali abbandonano la lingua inglese, in favore della gaelica. Diamo un passaggio ad un giovane francese fino alla coloratissima Dingle.
A ferry saves us a bit 'street. We reach the Clare and looking to our left we see the cliffs grow taller, we get to the Cliffs.
do not think I be able to describe the primordial feelings of joy mixed with fear. Of helplessness and size together. Wonder eye moved. Me and Loretta we go only to the tower that never reach too far and it will be a regret, the gulls that nest beneath our feet, the ocean that breaks 200 feet below, the look that loses contact with the forms . Sitting in silence watching the sky, the sea and we look in his eyes, surprised.
We would not go away, but it's dark and we bring all find a place that makes us to eat. We reach Doolin, where we will sleep. We have dinner in a beautiful and very noisy pub. A chat with the locals, some 'live music and plenty of good beer.

Day 4
For breakfast there is the fireplace. For us southerners, in mid-August, is just too much.
The day is spooky. The water did in the days before is in heaven. Indeed, he was in heaven. Can not watch the Burren, decides to get in the car to Connemara. The move is long, we do not know where to stop. We aim Clifden. After choosing the B & B for the night and eating in a restaurant, we go back in the car On the Sky Road, a circular path, which still offers spectacular views of the Atlantic, and among the lakes of the bog, we discover the radio station from which Marconi sent the first transatlantic message. We cross the fishing villages, we are home again. A pub, a traditional music by Mickey Martin and a salute to the ocean, now head back to Dublin.

Day 5
last breakfast in a B & B. I miss it when you get the other side of the island. In the evening we will be in Dublin, but before we are dedicated to Connemara. Lakes, rivers, fertile plains alternate vortex rugged coastline. Climb the Diamond Hill, glue your shoes unsuitable until we surrender. Then we go up we go down to the valley, crossing bridges and rough prohibited. We play to get lost in the dense vegetation, discover beaches and children in bathing suits, houses and fishermen at work. A slight melancholy assails us. A sign invites us to use sunglasses and sunscreen makes us smile, the last pub in the province. In the evening we are in Dublin, returned the Micra red now, the streets teeming.

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Trip to Portonovo for Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia

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A quanto pare Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia si è innamorato delle Marche. Il che, essendo io marchigiana di nascita e di cuore, per me è un grande piacere. E chissà che questo giovanotto biondo e bello non possa diventare un personaggio-immagine più azzeccato di tutti quelli ingaggiati in questi anni a suon di euro (migliaia) dalla Regione Marche?

Ieri, a dispetto della mia passione per il ramo Aosta, avrei voluto essere lì, ma è stato deciso altrimenti per ragioni che sfuggono alla stessa ragione. Ma c’era la mia amica e collega Letizia Larici, la quale si è molto divertita, ha trovato il principe “simpatico, divertente e veramente fascinating, "and he promised me an exclusive piece. Waiting here is a summary of what Letizia wrote for The Messenger.

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"I'm sure that the brands will take me," he assured the prince, in love with our region and is ready to become a testimonial at the end of his stay. Saturday's arrival at the Lido Restaurant in Civitanova which was set up a mega-party. "Because I bought a property in the former Hotel St. Helena in Civitanova? I hit the Miami style of the complex and the position of facing the sea. In addition, the future road comfort between my residence and Civitanova umbra "said the prince." Guest Massimo Virgili, the prince arrived at the marina Marinador, around 10:30, driving a bright red Ferrari. Sitting next to him, the landlord, who immediately made it on board his yacht "Gaston", a beautiful 20-meter motor. Sporty, keen on personal watercraft and racing cars, Emanuele took the lead boat and scooted up to the time of the Two Sisters, seconding the "Pegasus" with a small group of guests Virgili, including lawyers Pierluigi Micucci and Antonella Arlotti, Manuel Piras and Annalisa Marinelli. On board the "Gaston" Virgili captain, his son Gabriel and his partners of real estate, which has just sold the penthouse to the prince in Civitanova. At the rear a small motorboat with other lucky young man admitted to the court of the royal house. A prince informal, humorous and easygoing. "It 's the first time I've been on the Adriatic coast - he exclaimed, and enthusiastically admired the many bays of the coast - Picture-postcard perfect, it reminds me very much the wild southern Corsica. I am delighted. "

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Emanuele Filiberto, born in 1972, after a quick dip in the sea to cool off and a cigarette, took some photos of the Two Sisters with the mobile phone to publish them immediately on his Facebook page (5,000 contacts, 8,000 would-be friends in the waiting list). Ben 11 comments to the images of Conero in an hour. Before lunch Emilia, a drink on the yacht with pretzels and Dom Perignon. Then the landing at Portonovo, including onlookers, autographs and pictures. Missed the shot with the owners of the restaurant, which will hang the picture beside that of Prince Charles. So everyone at the table to taste the finest fish, mussels, clams, prepared by the young lady Marisa Savoy made an exception, allowing him to smoke between courses and the other. Emanuele Filiberto has noted with sympathy the success of Dancing with the stars, talked about the next commitments TV, politics and his book due out September 22. "I'll be sure to present it in Ancona." Meanwhile, waiting to return to the screen, maybe next week will be in Croatia for a weekend aboard the yacht of his new friend Massimo Virgili with his wife and daughters.

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Prince dancer Marches on Tour: Civitanova, Ancona and ready to welcome Portonovo Emanuele Filiberto

Tomorrow Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, fresh from victory on Dancing with the Stars and the recent electoral failures (small rewarded with disappointment a spot on TV, but we must admit the guy knows how to do it, it is easy and to date no major gaffes he has committed), will be in Ancona for a boat ride along the coast of Conero with attached lunch Portonovo from my friends Marisa, Franco and Federico owners of the legendary restaurant "by Emilia." The same room that, in 1988, greeted Prince Charles at the time of the Leopards host to a full cultural immersion in the Marche. In the inner room of the restaurant, white and blue in the sea are still hung pictures of a Prince of Wales was still young, happy smiles for dinner some sublime, but certainly also for its relaxing and temporary separation from marital crisis already act. Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, was invited by the entrepreneur who in recent weeks, Virgili has sold a penthouse in that of Civitanova, in a luxury residence. The prince will live, hopefully with his wife and daughters, in a large apartment built in place of what once was the hotel St. Helena. Panorama fabulous, high technology, high cost of finishing. In short, the modern equivalent of a castle, elegant and exclusive to which, among other things, the real presence will provide a substantial, though unquantifiable, added value.

The details of the day are princely in here that my friend and colleague Letizia Larici wrote for the local news for Il Messaggero.

ps I desperately searched the site of "Emilia", but obviously there, so here here the portal www.conero.it some photos of the coast and throughout the area. I apologize for this little digression on my beloved region that few know, because we are so, so we prefer not to know what are the good brands, and then complain that "tourism, oh no not just take off" ...