I recently read the book Timothy Knatchbull wrote about being injured in the explosion and coming to deal with his injured and the loss of his grandmother, grandfather, identical twin and friend. It’s a beautiful story with an overall tone of life and love rather than loss and hate. He talks about having to go back to Ireland and to Sligo as an adult to actually be able to heal. He was a 14 year old kid. He had nothing to do with The Troubles or any India or Burma or anything else people bring up when they talk about Mountbatten. He was just a kid on a summer vacation with his family.

@thehistoryexplorer

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Great point and very well said

@suekelley2109

4 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer thank you. Excellent video.

@user-zy3zd3sx2d

3 ай бұрын

The Mountbatten's were a dirty lot with many skeletons in their closet. An arrogant lack of regard for others. Phillip was notorious for insulting and belittling people, his brother, a perv. Why they farmed Princess Alice away to an insane asylum needs to be looked into further. It serves as a reminder for parents not to instill a disposable mindset or sense of entitlement into their kids. That stays with someone for life. It's others that pay the price.

@suekelley2109

3 ай бұрын

@@user-zy3zd3sx2d Phillip as in Prince Phillip? He didn’t have a brother. He had 4 sisters.

@user-zy3zd3sx2d

3 ай бұрын

@@suekelley2109 Ooops, I meant Lord Mountbatten, Phillip's uncle. The one whose boat was blown up.

Thank you for putting that together. An excellent intro for me before I dig deeper. 👌

@thehistoryexplorer

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Another brilliant video

@thehistoryexplorer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Appreciate you buddy

Another great video. I remember that day very well. Thank you

@thehistoryexplorer

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome and thank you for the comment

More great content. I wish this one had been longer but keep em wanting more and they will come back for it. 👍

@thehistoryexplorer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I really appreciate it. Im trying to keep below 10mins for now- mostly because of how busy I am! I’ll am for longer videos soon

Who needs TV dramas when we remember the real thing from 1979.

It was very interesting. Thanks

@thehistoryexplorer

4 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I'm not quite sure that Mountbatten was that honorable of a man ...🤔🤔🤔

@thehistoryexplorer

2 ай бұрын

How so?

@wildevixen7753

2 ай бұрын

What was your first clue?

@thelegman4359

Ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorerhe is a known pedophile

@Volcano-Man

Ай бұрын

Honour and Mountbatten are two words that should never ever be used in the same Century. He was dishonourable, a sado-masochist, saw women as something to warm one's bed, had countless affairs with high society married women - is rumoured to have even in his old age, liked to touch young under age girls which - @thehistoryexplorer refuses to believe, is why in 1978 he was warned that if he returned to Ireland he would go back to England in a box. I met people who were involved. They told me things that have never been revealed about his activities in Ireland, which annoys the history explorer. TSB!

@Volcano-Man

Ай бұрын

Honour and Mountbatten should never be mentioned in the same year! He was renowned for his ability to ensure others took the blame for his massive cock ups. Dieppe was his responsibility and he was going to have the glory, but it went terribly wrong and others took the blame. Partition of India - he decreed that Partition would occur about 7 weeks later, against the advice of the Hindu and Muslim leaders. It was 'everyone else's fault,' that it was and remains a massive balls up! He got away with things that a lesser person would have faced serious questions about.

Mountbatten was warned if he returned to Ireland he would be returning to England in a box! He laughed at the person who told him. It was exactly what happened.

@thehistoryexplorer

2 ай бұрын

Old wives tale

@Volcano-Man

Ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer FACT. I actually met two of his killers and three members of his staff. It was one of his staff who said it.

Poor boys, they had nothing to do with any of it 😢

@TheAlmightyJoseph

12 күн бұрын

probably saved from a worse fate coming that night

A German, von Battenburg

@geoffbenoy2052

7 ай бұрын

And the "royal" family, von Saxenbourg-Gotha. After the Great War changed their german name to Windsor. Kaizer Billy was related to them, like all the european "royalties". Thanks to "queen" Victoria, an other german, and she carried that gene of the blood sickness.

@user-zy3zd3sx2d

6 ай бұрын

The current monarchy (living or dead) never admit to being German. You CANNOT erase your genetic heritage. Being British in a British monarchy is what the Windsors concocted. They are mainly German not English. They falsely modified their heritage and changed their surname as though it were a PR move to polish and solidify their standing. There's no way to reconcile that other than coming clean, which would ignite a scandal not likely to subside any time soon. I can't imagine living with that. It requires denial, remaining silent and living a lie. The Queen looked like a stout little old German lady because she WAS.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz

5 ай бұрын

They will never be British!@@user-zy3zd3sx2d

@olliephelan

5 ай бұрын

@@geoffbenoy2052 Saxe Coburg Gotha

@user-zy3zd3sx2d

3 ай бұрын

The current monarchy (living or dead) never admit to being German. You CANNOT erase your genetic heritage. Being British in a British monarchy is what the Windsors concocted. They are mainly German not English. They falsely modified their heritage and changed their surname as though it were a PR move to polish and solidify their standing. There's no way to reconcile that other than coming clean, which would ignite a scandal not likely to subside. I can't imagine living with that. It requires denial, remaining silent and living a lie. The Queen looked like a stout little old German lady because she WAS. 'Duties' amount to lavish entertaining and fundraising.

Elphinstone at the beginning Mountbatten at the end And along with them in between a great line of the visionary statesmen from Great Britain who created India as a nation, united it, protected it, promoted it and gave its people a vast treasury of railway, police, post, telegraph, roads, bridges, dams and civil service discipline. Lord Mountbatten saved India from horrible and cruel Japanese invasion. Something Else Lady Mountbatten was founder of Indian Red Cross movement and did a dedicated work for its promotion

@tommyhall6695

Ай бұрын

It was slim that saved India Mountbatten incompetence led to the death of so many.

@robbob3052

Ай бұрын

You say visionary statesment, the locals say barbaric oppressors and savage colonizers.

Some things have never been righted.

I have never understood why the boat was not checked for safety first and still can't.

@thehistoryexplorer

Ай бұрын

He was about to turn 80 and had not been involved in anything to do with N Ireland. I think it’s safe to assume they believed the IRA wouldn’t murder an 80 year old and small children on a personal boat

I think he was killed by british secret service. Sombody said- get rid of him😂

@thehistoryexplorer

3 ай бұрын

I’m not sure about that

@thomasshepard6030

2 ай бұрын

I’ve always said that him and Edward Heath used to take children from a children’s home in jersey the same home the beast jimmy Savile used to visit they would take the children on their boats

@shelbynamels973

2 ай бұрын

"I think", "somebody said" that's irrefutable evidence right there, without a doubt.

@Volcano-Man

Ай бұрын

@yser-fo7pl6uw9h He was warned in 1978 that if he returned to Ireland he would go back to England in a wooden box! He told the person they didn't dare touch him, and death didn't frighten him! He was killed by the IRA and I met a few years later, two of those involved, and three of his staff. Morally he was a disgrace, saw women as something to warm his bed - he had countless affairs with high society married women; it was rumoured that he was bisexual, and encouraged Prince Charles - as he was, to bed as many women as he could. He thought of himself as being more king than King George VI He ballsed up the partition of India. Against advice of both the Hindu and Mulim leaders, he decreed it would happen within a few weeks! He considered his subordinate officers as being akin to something the dog had left of the footpath, and was renowned for ignoring them unless it suited his purpose to speak to them. But your claim about 'I 'think ...', with all due respect, leave that to horses as they have a brain!

So is his proven involvement in Kincora going to be ignored then? Are we all supposed to forget or ignore his association with it and pretend he was a great fella? He got away with it at the time because of who he was. Sorry but I for one won’t be forgetting. Perhaps what happened at Mullaghmore was justice for the crimes he got away with.

@thehistoryexplorer

9 ай бұрын

If you want to consider the murder of innocents (including a child) justice for an allegation then I’m sorry but I can’t help you there

@milliec7585

8 ай бұрын

I agree.

@leighfoulkes7297

6 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer Tell that to all the innocents who died because of imperialism and especially to the young and innocents who died from the potato famine. I'm sick of western nations screaming "think of the innocent civilians" as they do drone attacks that kill 90% innocent civilians throughout the world!! You don't hold any moral high ground and you never did!!

@thehistoryexplorer

6 ай бұрын

@@leighfoulkes7297 what on earth are you talking about?! imagine waking up each day full of poison like you. I honestly hope it gets better for you and you find happiness

@user-zy3zd3sx2d

6 ай бұрын

History Explorer: I love your videos but there's many who have valid historical reactions. It's not about poison.

Met him same year at Sargent mess life guards in Windsor with my step uncle and his father dodge 22 years service master sniper trainer . Boy remember him in his 80s standing to attention like a ram rod as they talked when finished back to the bear . Such lovely times shame they pass

@thehistoryexplorer

4 ай бұрын

Where your HCR too? I’ve got some ties to the Life Guards

Aye.

How do we know lord Mountbatten had dandruff ? His head n shoulders were found on a beach in Sligo

@thehistoryexplorer

7 ай бұрын

Terrible

@Irishman0855

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂14 gone and not forgotten we got 18 and Mountbatten

@wildevixen7753

2 ай бұрын

​@@thehistoryexplorer Mountbatten's own granddaughter said it in a BBC documentary in 2019 on the 40th anniversary, stating that it was one example of many such remarks doing the rounds in her boarding school. She was making the point that he had not been universally popular and like it or not, it is precisely at such times that black humour surfaces.

@thehistoryexplorer

2 ай бұрын

@@Irishman0855 celebrating the murder of innocents. That’s about right 👍

@Volcano-Man

Ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer Except Mountbatten was far from being 'innocent' little boys - as someone else has said, plus other nefarious goings on. Countless affairs with high society married women, bisexual, his wife had dozens of under age boys as her lovers, and others including Nehru. He was a terrible organiser - Dieppe was his responsibility, he cost a lot of Canadian troops their lives, along with many many more in South East Asia, but somehow managed to pass the blame downwards. He might not have deserved to die the way he did, but given his arrogant attitude of bring untouchable, perhaps it was fitting. Yes innocent people died, but he killed a lot of innocent people in his life!

Mountbatten should of respected the Irish and left their land, he was warned but ignored it

@thehistoryexplorer

Ай бұрын

He was a grandad about to turn 80, with small children on the boat. But you crack on and justify his murder 👍

@TheAlmightyJoseph

12 күн бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer you got that part right. loved the young children. Dont ask the FBi about him though

Pandit Nero and Ghandi and Churchill wanted a United India,Jenner did not,he wanted a Muslim State,what followed can be laid at his door.

@qmsarge

Ай бұрын

Pandit Nehru was another stooge who Mountbatten could successfully place in Independent India. Need to appreciate Mountbatten's skills in identifying the correct stooges. He did what was best for his country. Even today the stooge families planted by him hold big influence in India's politics.

❤

Lord Mountbatten was the best viceroy..😢😢😢

@wildevixen7753

2 ай бұрын

Can you name one other Viceroy of India? Without googling.

@Volcano-Man

Ай бұрын

He was a lousy viceroy! Against the advice of the Hindu and Muslim leaders, he decreed that partition would occur a few weeks ahead!

Uh huh

This day India was truly satisfied 🇮🇳 Jai hind

@thehistoryexplorer

2 ай бұрын

Satisfied at murder?

@Bluchh

2 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexploreryou have to be kidding me

@thehistoryexplorer

2 ай бұрын

@@Bluchh this guy has made similar comments on multiple videos. I call him out on it each time

@anraienrique7547

Ай бұрын

⁠Tory

@thehistoryexplorer

Ай бұрын

@@anraienrique7547 moron

He was no hero.

@thehistoryexplorer

7 ай бұрын

But he and the innocent civilians with him did not deserve to be murdered, no?

@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.

7 ай бұрын

Heroes to some are villains to others. It's a subjective value statement relative to cultural and sociopolitical axioms.

@miguelalarcon4055

7 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer When the English kill innocents either???

@thehistoryexplorer

7 ай бұрын

@@miguelalarcon4055 typical. Eye for an eye is it? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@miguelalarcon4055

5 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer típico. Ingleses simulando pena por los civiles...

When will we ever learn. And now I see the terrorist threat level has increased in Ireland again. Having lived through the Troubles this is not good for anyone

@t.j.payeur5331

Жыл бұрын

Mankind will never "learn". It is human nature to hate and fear what you don't understand. Read Ecclisiastes...

@thehistoryexplorer

Жыл бұрын

Let’s hope we don’t have any return to what happened in the past. If King Charles can forgive and reconcile then hopefully we can too

@thehistoryexplorer

Жыл бұрын

@@t.j.payeur5331 great comment. Let’s hope we can learn to live together

@patrickmcguigan690

9 ай бұрын

What are you talking about you idiot!? Tell me just how many of the Loyalist death squad groups have completely disbanded? Answer: NONE that’s how many. The UDA and the UVF are still hard at it racketeering, drug dealing and killing each other over territory of where who deals in what areas. Tell me also how many weapons belonging to Loyalist death squad organisations have been decommissioned? Answer: NONE. Come back here then when you actually know what you’re talking about and also from an unbiased position. 😡

@patrickmcguigan690

3 ай бұрын

I do hope by your comment “terrorist threat” you are referring to the threat imposed by the Loyalist Death squads as they were never made to decommission their weapons and have spent the best part of the past 25 years killing each other by these very same weapons in gang-lad feuds to enforce who controls what areas by which drug dealers? Either way isn’t better them killing themselves with these same weapons than killing innocent Catholic’s which is what they normally did?

It's tragic that the current King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland lost his best friend so violently. As a human being thinking about another human being, that's all I have to say. My personal feelings about his origins, activities and politics don't matter in this regard. (Downvoted because the narrator sounds just TOO British.)

@thehistoryexplorer

3 ай бұрын

You downvoted the video because the narrator (who is British) sounds too British. Sounds like racism to me! 🤦‍♂️😆

WW2 vet. Mountbatten.

Mountbatten was responsible for enabling my education. I shall forever be grateful to him. RIP Sir.

The joke at school back then was what is white and flies 100mph over the Irish channel…..Lord Mountbatten plimsole 🤣😂🤣

@thehistoryexplorer

6 күн бұрын

Thats hilarious…

In Cromwell's days the English would have answered this assassination by visiting death and destruction on the Irish up and down the land. My, how times have changed.

@monti4035

2 ай бұрын

Would they now?

@dgodfrey8953

2 ай бұрын

Pfft, the English were visiting death and destruction on the Irish up and down the land for centuries. My, how times hadn't changed.

@wildevixen7753

2 ай бұрын

@@monti4035 It is a matter of historical record, and in reprisal for far less than an assassination.

@tommyhall6695

Ай бұрын

Cromwell wouldn't have had such an incompetent prick in his army.

This was most traumatic for King Charles given Mountbatten was responsible for the future king’s formative sexual experiences. A common theme in England, I’m led to believe.

@thehistoryexplorer

3 ай бұрын

Come on now

Hi, I work for South Korean broadcast company tvN. we would like to use your video on our history show. Could you please let me know if we could use an excerpt from it giving the credit to your channel? Thanks :)

We all know why the young local boy was on that boat, private entertainment for lord Mountbatten.

@thehistoryexplorer

6 ай бұрын

I’m sorry you feel the way you do and I hope life gets better for you

@alanmacdonald1457

6 ай бұрын

the facts of the matter is that mountbatten was a paedophile so... stop defending monsters? @@thehistoryexplorer

@garyyoung9085

2 ай бұрын

To the Evil everything appears Evil.

Self importance

The title describes it as a shocking assasination but its nowhere near as shocking as the terrible crimes inflicted on the Irish people by the British terrorists

@thehistoryexplorer

7 ай бұрын

Name some?

@user-pu8sg4sd4f

7 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer The Irish Famine created by Britain exporting sources of food out of Ireland but portrayed as a Potatoe famine, forcing Catholics to convert to protestants in return for good, bloody Friday when the British soldiers shot into the stands during a GAA Match,bloody Sunday when the paras murdered 14 civilians during a Civil rights march Irish Penal laws. Black and Tans burning towns to the ground. Oliver Cromwell massacring Drogheda. Cromwell forces alone are estimated to have killed 200,000 during their reign of terror That's just a few off the top of my head. Most British are oblivious to the famine. The IRA wouldn't of had to exist in the first place if it wasn't for the actions of the British

@user-pu8sg4sd4f

7 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer any of that ring a bell?

@thehistoryexplorer

7 ай бұрын

@@user-pu8sg4sd4fhow unhappy your life must be. I hope things get better. Shall I list all the civilians murdered by the IRA? All the indiscriminate bombings, shootings, torture, the ‘disappeared’… this video is about the civilians who were murdered alongside Lord Mountbatten. You can try justify murder as much as you like but this young boy deserved to love a full life

@user-pu8sg4sd4f

7 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer I'm very happy actually . You asked me to name some so I did.... I don't condone killing civilians either as you've just assumed. Your channel is very good and of course those children didn't deserve to die Sorry to cause upset by answering a question regarding British atrocities

The oy ar ay dunnit!! Those bloody paddies dunnit!! Paddy ,one of the security detail, said the blast blew his ear off.His friend Seamus dived into the water to retrieve the ear, and surfaced with an ear.He said "Paddy me lad oy found it!!"Paddy looked at it and said "nah dats not moyn,moyn had a pencil behind it".....😁🤣🤭🤣😁😂😂😂😂😁🤣

@teamblitz1990

6 ай бұрын

Typical shite reply from a wanker

Respect to Charles. Hasn't always got it right but I think he is a good man at heart

@thehistoryexplorer

Жыл бұрын

I’m a monarchist 😊

Irish American Catholic here, Gods curse on the fiend who murdered Mountbatton, He loved the Irish, Ireland, and was kind to all.

@thehistoryexplorer

9 ай бұрын

Well said my friend! 👏 There is enough hatred in this world already

@conormccarthy92

8 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer Louis Mountbatten was a pedophile

@SpastikChild

8 ай бұрын

We know Mountbatten sexually abused children from the Kincorra Boys home in Belfast, the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, and did similar in New Zealand. The FBI's file on him, released under FOIA said the same. There's a man in court in NI who has waived his right to anonymity to put his abuse by Mountbatten and the NI state on the record.

@siobhanofarrell4646

7 ай бұрын

@@SpastikChildFinally someone talking sense and truth. Chris Moore wrote a book about it called The Kincora Scandal

@HeatherGarcia-di9se

7 ай бұрын

Loved the Irish lol hagafa k ,lol.....the real reason he vacation there is cuz lord mountbatton family owned, enslaved, colonized n indentured real Irish in there own native ireland....all real Irish blooded villages throughout Ireland were owned n operated by English lords, English landlords n English aristocrats.... Guinness n Jameson were also English blooded businesses in ireland .....real Irish coukdnt own land,speak gaelic n own businesses in there own real Irish native ireland.....these English rulers like oliver Cromwell n king james ii enslaved real Irish blooded men women n children in st Kitts, Barbados, Jamaica,n Montserrat n Virginia n south Carolina n other English colonies..... remember root evil is England.....there's no such thing as scottish blood... Scotland broken down by Highlands n lowlands....Highlanders are literally real Irish Gaelic Celtic Highlander blooded people who came from Ireland hundreds yrs ago as expelled real Irish blooded roaming Highlands......lowlanders are literally real english anglo saxon germanic protestant blooded people who colonized these lowlands.....then these same lowlander english blooded people were then given land to in northern Ireland by the queen of England in ulster plantation and then wen these same English blooded people who colonized lowlands/Northern Ireland wen they came to America were called scotch Irish even though they neither have Irish or Scottish blood in them lol smh .....

This is the karma of India partition 😢

@thehistoryexplorer

9 ай бұрын

Let’s please leave politics out of this. The British government of the time was meeting the demands of the people; to make India independent.

@vangroover1903

9 ай бұрын

Blame that on the dirty faced Pakistani guy. What Mountbatten paid for was the rape of Ireland. If they hadn't killed innocent children this would be a celebration of a life well taken.

@user-vp6dz1fi5r

8 ай бұрын

@@thehistoryexplorer this Rascals British Rascals looted our India...

@kr_international_8608

8 ай бұрын

Indian patrition was and is one of the best things ever done to the human-race. Savage people should remain isolated and divided.

@siobhanofarrell4646

7 ай бұрын

This is the karma of Irish domination and partition. You do know Mountbatten was a nonce? He was also known as Lord Mountbottom, reportedly had a predilection for boys 10-14, and it’s common knowledge that boys from a home in East Belfast called the Kincora Home were being abused by high powered people in Britain including Mountbatten. Chris Moore wrote a book about it called The Kincora Scandal

British Are Badie

@thehistoryexplorer

Ай бұрын

You won’t want to follow my channel then chum 👋