“In August 1979, my much-loved great uncle, Lord Mountbatten, was killed alongside ... that led the campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland. Adams, who has led the party since 1983 ...
The assassination of Mountbatten was the first strike against the British royal family by the IRA during its terrorist campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite it with the ...
In 2012, Queen Elizabeth shook the hand of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander who was then Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister, despite her relative Lord Mountbatten ...
She was married to Philip Mountbatten from 1947 until his death ... imperialism and control over Africa, uprisings in Northern Ireland, the Cold war, and the U.K.'s withdrawal from the European ...