Aristocrat, army hero, diplomat, inventor. Lord Louis Mountbatten, the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, wore many hats. Or he did until his untimely end, when the Irish Republican Army took him out ...

The thwarted coup is detailed in a new biography of Lord Mountbatten by British historian Andrew Lownie. On May 8, Lord Mountbatten hosted a meeting with plotters at his Belgravia home ...