Lady Mountbattens Grandson Says Her Affair With Nehru Was Platonic As Nehru Was Impotent
by Rakhi Bose The story of the alleged affair between Independent India's first Prime Minister, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, the wife of Colonial India's last viceroy, is one that has endured gossip and speculation for over fifty years.
Nehru sharing a laugh with Lady Mountbatten as Lord Mountbatten looks away
(Facebook)But now, Ashley Hicks, the grandson of Lady Mountbatten, has added more fuel to the speculation, claiming that though his grandmother did have an affair with Nehru, she did not sleep with him, allegedly because he was impotent.
In an excerpt written by Hicks, published by The Telegraph, the architect cum author and son of Edwina's daughter claimed that though his grandmother had shared an 'intense, romantic feeling' with Nehru, the two never ended up consummating their relationship since Nehru was impotent.According to Hicks, Nehru's sister told him about Nehru's apparent impotence, and that it had been that way even before the affair with Lady Mountbatten.
In an earlier biography, Hicks's mother Pamela Mountbatten also admitted to the affair, which many historians have hinted at, even though no documentation of the affair exists. She had said that the two her mother, who had been a 'reckless lover who fornicated with abandon', as quoted by Firstpost, did not have physical relations with Nehru as the highly public nature of their political designations never allowed them any time of privacy.
The fresh claims of impotence by Ashley Hicks however, might reopen a chapter, which had hitherto been considered closed.
ارے یار مرد تھا یا نامرد اس گوری کے ساتھ معاشقہ چلا کر اس نے کشمیر کا راستہ تو لے لیا تھا ناں -
جس کو ہم آج تک بھگت رہے ہیں اور پتا نہیں آگے کتنا بھگتیں گے
ارے یار مرد تھا یا نامرد اس گوری کے ساتھ معاشقہ چلا کر اس نے کشمیر کا راستہ تو لے لیا تھا ناں -
جس کو ہم آج تک بھگت رہے ہیں اور پتا نہیں آگے کتنا بھگتیں گے
Why don't we concentrate on the issues at hand and leave his shenanigans for the Indians to bicker about?
Whether he was impotent or God's gift to women should be of none of our business.
I bet you won't find someone on an Indian forum saying Bilawal is a he biatch but that's what he is.
Before going through the Royal Affair among Nehru and Edwina first I would like to discuss their own married life. Jawahar Lal Nehru marriage with Kamala Nehru never had been a great success. According to Nehru's niece Nayantara Sahgal married life of Nehru as “a grievous mistake for two profoundly different people".
Edwina's marriage with the Dickey Mountbatten had been facing the same crisis. She had a lot of affairs pre and post marriages. In October 1926, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a lurid story titled “A Royal ‘Spanking’ for Gay Lady Mountbatten.” about Mrs.Mountbatten. Most of the time the couple were not together.Edwina often threatened Dickey of getting divorce. According to one of the letters of Dickey to Edwina: “I wish I knew how to flirt with other women, and especially with my wife. I wish I’d sown more wild oats in my youth, and could excite more than I fear I do. I wish I wasn’t in the Navy and had to drag you out to Malta. I wish I had an equal share of the money so that I could give you far handsomer presents than I can really at present honestly manage. In other words, I’d like to feel that I was really worthy of your love.” During her last days of Kamala Nehru, Jawahar visited her but found her different. He wrote in his diary. “I felt there was a psychological change. She seemed reserved.” Instead, she told him that she had decided to devote the rest of her life to religious contemplation and no longer wanted a sexual relationship. She died at an early age of 37 and after that Nehru was left all alone. There is an intriguing tale told by S. S. Pirzada, late foreign minister of Pakistan, that Jinnah had been handed a small collection of letters that had been written by Edwina and Jawahar. “Dickie will be out tonight—come after 10:00 o’clock,” said one of Edwina’s. Another revealed, “You forgot your handkerchief and before Dickie could spot it I covered it up.” A third said, “I have fond memories of Simla—riding and your touch.”
Jawahar's niece Nayantara Pandit spent a lot of time with her uncle. According to her," It was a very deep emotional attachment, there’s no doubt about that,” Jawahar’s younger sister Betty, ” In those days of tension, and later when she (Edwina) came to stay with my brother after he became Prime Minister of the Republic of India, she was one of the few people left who could break his somber moods.When she was there, Bhai’s laughter would ring through the house as it used to when we were young” The Mountbattens daughter, Pamela , agreed: “I’ve often been asked whether I think Nehru and my mother were in love. The answer undoubtedly is yes, they were.”
The last night Mountbattens held their final reception. After dinner Jawahar gave a speech in honor of Edwina and it was a true disclosure of love for her.
"The gods or some good fairy gave you beauty and high intelligence, and grace and charm and vitality—great gifts—and she who possesses them is a great lady wherever she goes. But unto those who have, even more shall be given: and they gave you something that was even rarer than those gifts—the human touch, the love of humanity, the urge to serve those who suffer and who are in distress. And this amazing mixture of qualities results in a radiant personality and in the healer’s touch. Wherever you have gone you have brought solace, and you have brought hope and encouragement. Is it surprising, therefore, that the people of India should love you and look up to you as one of themselves and should grieve that you are going? Hundreds of thousands have seen you personally in various camps and other places and in hospitals, and hundreds of thousands will be sorrowful at the news that you have gone." When parted, they wrote to each other constantly - and Edwina made no attempt to keep the letters secret from her husband. The day Edwina died she had nothing beside her: only a pile of old letters on the table. She must have been reading them when she died, for a few, having fluttered from her hands, were strewn across her bed. They were all from Jawaharlal Nehru.
Pamela Mountbatten, Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbattens youngest daughter, was 18 in the autumn of 1947, which means she had a ringside view of the events leading up to and beyond Independence. She was also a witness to the relationship between her mother and Nehru, which she describes as being "in love", but without having any sexual contact, in a chat with Shyam Bhatia in England
INDIA remains uppermost in the minds of the Mountbatten family, and Pamela Mountbatten has made sure of this by naming her daughter after the country that her father claimed to have freed from colonial bondage. Lord Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten was the last British Viceroy and first Governor-General of independent India when he and his wife Edwina became and remained close friends of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and other leading members of the Indian Cabinet. Their younger daughter, Pamela, spent 18 formative months in India and had a ringside view of the events leading up to and beyond Independence. She also had first hand experience of meeting and talking to many of Independent Indias founding fathers, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhai Patel, C. Rajgopalachari and others. Nehru with Pamela Mountbatten
After returning to post-war England, Pamela met and married the famous British designer David Hicks with whom she had three children. India Hicks is one of those three children and she, too, has a soft corner for the country after which she was christened. In fact, she is the one who encouraged her mother to enshrine some of her thoughts and memories in a recently published book, India Remembered. Stacks of black and white photographs, filed in Pamelas private study, also help to keep the connection alive. One much-treasured picture depicts Nehru in black shorts practising yoga by standing on his head. Pamela remembers him telling her that this was when he liked to plan his Cabinet changes because he could be sure of a clear mind. Pamela, who is pushing 81 now, distinctly remembers everything as if it happened yesterday. What struck me most was her understanding of those tragic days and the admiration she retains for Jawaharlal Nehrus courage and sagacity. Most of all, she recalls his ability to explain in a simple and understandable way the most difficult problems the country faced. Pamela called Nehru mamu for some months, but then reverted to the commonly used title of Panditji because she thought it sounded less presumptuous. But her mother called him Jawahar from day one. And he, in turn, called her Edwina. When we lunched together at her mini stately home in the heart of Oxfordshire, I asked how she would describe the relationship between the two. She took no time in saying that they were "in love", but without having any sexual contact. Seeing me surprised she explained, " This deep emotional affection that obviously was love is so difficult for people to understand that you can have love without having a grand sexual affair, which I dont believe they did have." Reminiscing, she added, "I strongly believe that they were essentially two lonely people. His wife was dead, his sister was posted abroad, his daughter was either looking after her husband or was away with the womens movement. I think he was very alone and my mother was a very introvert character herself. Suddenly, they found they were two, who would communicate with each other. "Someone actually described it to me as a brief encounter. I dont know if youve ever seen the film Brief Encounter? In the film, two people are wildly attracted to each other who know it is going to be impossible. After we left India they saw each other once a year twice a year perhaps but the relationship remained as intense." Soon after Independence, the mother and daughter were regular visitors to India. They stayed at the Prime Ministers house in Teen Murti, New Delhi, as government guests and sometimes went on tour with him. When Nehru visited the UK, he was a welcome guest at the Mountbatten family estate, Broadlands, in Hampshire. "I met him, I suppose, at the peak of his life", Pamela explains. "I was lucky. Oh yes, the temper was certainly very much there and you, certainly, didnt interrupt; you were likely to get your head bitten off. But with me I always found like he was with all young people that he loved young people. He felt an immediate attraction to them, which was, of course, immediately reciprocated. He was never boring, he never pontificated, he never talked you down. He was particularly wonderful because he was so knowledgeable about everything." "Not during my mothers lifetime, but after her death, my father asked me to go through the correspondence between Panditji and my mother," Pamela says. "Actually, he (my father) asked me to read their letters. Obviously, there was that slight, slight, slight worry about it, but ever so slight. When I read them, I was able to assure him. They both needed each other, but there was nothing that he should be embarrassed about. "He (Nehru) was such an honourable man and I think, to have seduced my mother in my fathers house, would have been dishonourable. If my father had not been around, and my father was the least jealous person, I think, it would have been embarrassing for him if that happened." Pamela says she never had the least doubt that India would emerge one day as a major power. She attributes her optimism to the "quality of your" leadership. Indias potential was so obvious and the calibre of Indias leaders at that time was impressive." Pamela was also so keen to keep up with her Indian friends and contacts that at one stage she volunteered to work as a secretary for Indias first High Commissioner to the UK, Krishna Menon. Both Pamela and her mother had harsh words for Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Lady Edwina Mountbatten has been quoted on record as characterising Jinnah as a megalomaniac. For her part, Pamela remembers him as icy cold and "a severe man, a very severe man" and, she adds, it was impossible to like him or have affection for him. "You could admire the figure, very immaculately turned out in western dress, but thats it. A fine looking man, rather hawk faced, but a fine looking man. But there was a freezing barrier all around him." This freezing or icy barrier extended to her father, Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British Viceroy of undivided India. "My father tried to offer advice to all the leaders," says Pamela. The Congress Party leaders were interested and then after a short while went half way to meet him. "With Jinnah, he (Lord Mountbatten) felt there was this complete barrier. If my father offered help, it was refused. Mr Jinnah, the Qaid-e-Azam, he knew exactly what he was going to do. He was going to take all the jobs for himself wasnt he? The religious head, the Pakistan head, it was going to be a one-man show for which he had given his life. "What we didnt know was that he was suffering from cancer and his death was totally unexpected for us."
Source-http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010...
So you are using this apparently fabricated and tabloid news piece to prove a hearsay accusation against Bhutto a lie, and are using the same fallacy to prove his own daughter as illegitimate. Amazing.
No wonder PPP has no money to help thousands of visitors who go to Sehwan every week, but have billions to waste on those rotten bodies lying in garhi khuda baksh.
Grandson jhoot bole raha hae apnee grandma kee reputation save kurnae kae leeae. Nehru had many affairs after wife died read this
Nehru was alleged to have had relationships with Shraddha Mata,Padmaja Naiduand Edwina Mountbatten.Edwina's daughter Pamela acknowledged Nehru's platonic relationship with Edwina.
