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Historian wins release of 'public' Mountbatten archives at great personal cost
- cf100clunk 5y agoHats off to Andrew Lownie's relentless pursuit of this goldmine of publically-funded knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lownie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lownie If the diaries shed light on the Nazi-friendly members of the Saxe-Cobourg family, we'll all be well served. As for the man himself, many years after the Dieppe cockup, not many Canadian WWII vets shed a tear at Dickie's death.