The Royal Rebel

adua Mount Batton knew better than anyone that behind the glittering softly lit ballrooms of high society they were dark twisting corridors full of secrets after all behind closed doors uina had more than a few secrets of her own from her scandalous marriage to her tragic twist ending this beautiful socialite lived 10 lives in one Adina Mount Batton and her husband were England's greatest power couple yet the FBI file on them hit bombshell Secrets newspapers reported on the couple's constant Affairs but the files revealed their depravities went so much deeper than that but more on that later uina mountbatten was a huge Society catch born uina Ashley in 1900 she was the maternal granddaughter of the powerful magnate Ernest Cassel a financier to Royals and one of the most influential men in England in other words baby uina was rolling in do but all her money couldn't stop the tragedy coming coming her way when uina was just 11 years old her consumptive mother Amalia passed leaving the young girl without a feminine role model in her life but that wasn't the worst part her father Wilfred soon forgot all about her mother and remarried Molly forb simple now second wives get a bad rap but Molly may have truly deserved the title of evil stepmother UA's father had desperately wanted a male Heir and he looked upon his daughter uina as a mere inconvenient mouth to feed well Molly was happy to follow the party line and then some called a Wicked Woman it wasn't long before Molly thrust poor edua into her own Cinderella Story packing her off unceremoniously to boarding school and then the real trouble began uina mbat didn't find her people at boarding school she only found further misery her classmates teased her mercilessly about anything they could find and the vivacious spontaneous girl found the strict and somber routine of school life near suffocating within a few months she was at her Wit's End and desperate times called for desperate measures lonely and crestfallen at school edua wrote a heart-wrenching letter through the tragedies of her formative years her grandfather Ernest casselle had remained her strongest supporter and she sent him a message begging him to please take me away dear Grandpa if you love me at all thing is this pitiful letter had surprising consequences is for most people even a dramatic message like this one wouldn't get their parents to pull them out of school then again uina wasn't most people her do and grandfather not only eventually let her drop her studies he then hired a teenager to act as his party hostess at his palatial house instead yeah edua was spoiled as heck but this was just the beginning within a few years uina the hostess was partying like it was her job which well it was she took it like a duck to water friends and admirers immediately noticed how bright clever and curious she was and she fell in with some of the leading social lights of her day including the wealthy and beautiful Gloria Vanderbilt indeed it was UA's friendship with Gloria that sealed her fate when uina was just 19 years old she met Lord Louie Mount Batton a relative of the current British royal family and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria in his own right translation he was one heck of a catch lucky for edua Louie only had eyes for her and they struck up a whirlwind romance yet immense tragedy was just around the corner in the middle of her intense courtship with Louis Mount Batton uina received the worst news of her life her grandfather Ernest Cassel had passed simultaneously turning her into a wealthy ays while leaving her overwhelmingly heartbroken as if that weren't enough Lou father also passed around this time huh maybe this was a bad omen you think both uina and Louie didn't Heed These Cosmic warning signs and went Full Speed Ahead with their love within months of meeting each other they had decided to marry and they weren't about to go back on their ill-advised word uina poured all her Newfound money into planning their wedding and what a wedding it was when uina married her prince charming on July 18th 1922 it was the wedding of the year not only did many members of the royal family attend the nuptuals on the grounds of Westminister Abbey the Prince of Wales himself the Future King Edward VII was the best man at the proceedings but the real extravagance came just after the newly minted M batens treated themselves to a lavish six-month honeymoon after tying the knot one leg of the globe trotting Adventure even had them touring the United States and partying with enormous Hollywood stars like Mary pford and Charlie Chaplain but behind closed doors the cracks were starting to show uina barely knew Louie when she married him and once they made it official she started to discover some unsettling traits in her new husband the effervescent girl already had a healthy taste for Misadventures but Louie not so much in fact he could be downright Stern even teaching his house guests how to properly eat strawberries while still on her honeymoon edua Unleashed her secret Wildside although she and Louie were both inexperienced on their wedding night it didn't take long for the socialite to discover she liked falling in bed very much so much in fact she reportedly begged Louie to take her to Paris for the explicit purpose of getting it on in a quote the most awful places we could find unquote Louie however had a much different reaction while wetted Bliss had awakened UA's desires the same didn't go for her husband Louie ambitious for a career in the Navy thought of marriage as a smug diversion from his real goals and reportedly considered intimacy as a awkward mix of half Hydraulics and half psychology in fact we have evidence of their bedroom life and it's not pretty when I say that Lou mountbatten was awkward in the Royal bench Chambers this guy was so unused to the idea of edu's real warm womanly body next to him that he lovingly nicknamed her chest mut and Jeff in case this sound any less romantic that's Naval slang for Metals later it was the name of a comic uh this is going nowhere good whether because of her dismal private life or other issues edua began to exhibit unsettling signs she grew Restless in her seemingly perfect existence with one friend commenting that for edua there was always something missing she didn't know what it was or where it was but she was determined to find it still she went looking in all the wrong places in 1924 uina and Louie had their first child a daughter named Patricia while this would be a joy for many young mothers edua didn't count herself in that number not by a long shot instead of coddling and cooing at the girl she was actually jealous of the attention her baby was getting and let me tell you jealous people do some unhinged things after Patricia's birth uina mountbatten went off the deep end one day while Louie was away in the Navy she passed packed up her babe with a nanny and sent her off to the coast so she could have some mommy alone time only she wasn't so alone edua proceeded to spark up a string of affairs with society's most eligible bachelors and somehow this wasn't the most scandalous detail once uina decided to jump the Good Ship Fidelity she really went for it she not only took lovers she took them near simultaneously hopping around town with a lord molu in the morning The Dashing Polo player lty Sanford in the afternoon and newspaper editor Mike Wardell in the evening it wasn't long before it got messy by the time edu's second daughter Pamela was born in 1929 her philandering had reached Epic Proportions edua had to work overtime to coordinate her little blackbook and she often came home to her staff trying frantically to keep her paramor separated she had so many men in her life those in the know and there were many dubb the lovers the ginks but loose lips sink ships soon enough all UA's lies unraveled although Lou had been happily if unbelievably ignorant of his wife's cavorting the bottom had to drop out sometime one day the Prince of Wales himself tipped Louie off to what everyone else in London already knew Mount batton's response was both exactly like you'd expect and nothing like you'd expect when Louie first realized the extent of UA's double life he was devastated but he also had to think practically as a member of the Royal Family he could hardly divorce her without causing an uproar so instead they came to a scandalous and very secret agreement they could have marriage where they both could do what they wanted you know some would say this wasn't the best idea to be fair the mount baton salacious Arrangement started out well enough not one to be outdone Lou soon started a alliance with the Gamin Yola leier the French it girl who became the inspiration behind Colette's novel XII the Brash steamy Yola was a fitting firsttime mistress until uina got a claws into her that is uina made it her business to know all about her husband's Conquest so she found out about Yola in no time flat then she made a bizarre move after confronting the Vixen about it edua took her out to lunch later writing to Louie your girl is sweet and I like her and we got on beautifully and are now gummed and I'm lurching with her at her house on Tuesday yep Louie and uina were that couple and the real aess was yet to come around this time Lou started getting cozy right back with UA's lovers friends considered her next side piece bunny Phillips as Louie with the volume turned down so only made sense when Lou struck up a friendship with him even attending the theater together on his wedding anniversary still under the surface this seemingly enlightened marital agreement had a very dark side in truth uina and Lou's Arrangement was playing a dangerous game if anyone from the outside world ever found out about about it the British royal family would be exposed to moral outrage Louie lived in Terror of this exposure and the possibility of divorce always hung in the background with the couple reconsidering it several times well within a few years Louie might have wished he'd split in 1932 edu's World crashed in on her after spending nearly a decade hastily suppressing public knowledge of their extramarital activities the mount batons found themselves in the middle of the true Scandal a gossip columnist published a story claiming that the well-healed socialite who everyone knew as uina was having an affair with a black man the Royal reaction was Swift and mortifying almost immediately the reigning King George V ordered UA and Louis mban back to England demanding that they sue the publication for liel while denying all claims of an affair there was just one big problem the information was very likely true and the details were even juicier than people knew the rumor mill went into overdrive trying to reveal the identity of UA's black lover but experts today think they know the truth although some suggested she had taken up with the actor Paul Robison it's more likely that the man in question was The Dashing Cabaret singer lesie Hutchinson who was quite the hit with Society ladies but it was one story in particular that almost decimated the monarchy people claimed that DNA had given lesie Hutchinson an extremely racy and extravagant gift to show her affection she presented him with a custommade diamond encrusted C Cod or piece yep it was enough Dirty Laundry to nearly Exile mountbattens from the inner Royal Circle and even after uina won her liable case this rumor stuck I mean diamonds are forever as much as uina and Lou's Affair nearly ruined their reputations the their two daughters were having an even worse time of it their youngest Pamela later lamented the string of strange uncles that made up her childhood after all as Louis once put it edua and I spent all our married lives getting into other people's beds and upheaval of a very different kind was around the corner in 1939 World War II broke out and adu's first reaction was disturbing pretty push and used to only the best in life the society girl bed at the idea of rationing and tightening up her belt buckle in fact when the conflict started her biggest sacrifice was to swear she would heroically give up chocolate and stop painting her toenails but then something strange happened after years of searching for fulfillment in Jet Set living Champagne Dreams and midnight pillow talks World War II finally gave uina the one thing she had been missing a purpose before long she threw herself into to her work for the Allies primarily inspecting air raid shelters hospitals and leave camps and always dressed in perfectly tailored uniforms it was a huge transformation for the most part uina went into World War II as a spoiled debutant obsessed with chasing conquests and came out the other side a hardened practical woman so when Louis Mountain baton got an enormous promotion in 1947 as the last Viceroy of India making a do another Vice rign she finally seemed poised to take up the challenge still uina could never help misbehaving becoming the vice rign of India didn't make UA stop falling into people's beds it only made her more serious about her lovers her next infatuation couldn't have been more inappropriate while serving uina became obsessed with none other than the first Prime Minister of India jawaharlal Neu yes that's a major conflict of interest and Adu had to go and make it even tenser see Neu wasn't just an idol snack for UA's man-eating Tendencies he was the whole darn meal she was head over heels for him before she even saw him and when Lou first met the politician solo Adu insisted he drive nou by where she was volunteering so she could meet him too except Neu was no easy Victory and for perhaps the first time in her life uina would really have to earn something uina refused to rest on her laurels while serving as Vice rain especially not with the handsome joah haral nou watching her the Bold stubborn woman became Infamous for going out in the middle of conflicts with snipers still shooting to rescue bodies and bring them to the hospital well that certainly caught n's attention when uina and Louie landed in Delhi in 1947 India was in the midst of partition from Pakistan and anti- British sentiment and suspicion ran deep even among their high class contacts that's when edua surprised everyone she turned her charm up to 11 and won everyone's trust she's quite marvelous one Aid recalled she was almost better with women than men and that's saying a lot but once more there was one man she had in mind although uina and Louie only served in India for a little over a year it was enough time for one of the most extraordinary loves of her life to develop over the months she and nou grew intensely spiritually close to each other Drawn Together by their concern for his country and by by their own sharp intellects today experts consider nou as UA's great love the truth however is much more complicated although edu's relationship with nuu made all her previous Affairs and lovers look like Child's Play including let's be honest her marriage to Louie there is still a lot of mystery shrouding their intimacy although they shared a close Bond researchers still argue about whether things ever got physical between them still one person close to the couple thought they knew the real story Louis baton himself firmly believed that neou and his wife were in a physical relationship and he was more than a little proud of the big fish UA had snagged so proud in fact that he kept a flurry of corresponden adua and neru wrote to each other and it's these letters that reveal the most detailed Clues even on the surface edua and neu's correspondents show the Deep connection that they had together Lou mountbatten later recalled that neu's own letters to him were always typed while while neu's letters to uina were always handwritten this gesture is intimate enough but the words themselves are overwhelming in these private missives edua and Neu show sweeping feeling with uina writing in an early passage I hated seeing you drive away this morning you have left me with a strange sense of peace and happiness in his own letter to her Neu writes life is a Dre business and when a bright patch comes it rather takes one's breath away you decide what these words might tell us maybe it's no wonder that uina dictated nearly all the terms of her relationship with Louis malbat when they first married he might have had Royal connections but he didn't have much money to his name meanwhile uina was rolling it in her monthly allowance was 10 times her husband's salary our girl was rich rich with her late in life romantic Awakening in full bloom UA must have thought she had the rest of a long life to enjoy her second spring yet fate had cruler plans her health decline throughout the 1950s though she never slowed down despite both her husband and neu's concerns eventually she had to pay the piper on February 21st 1960 uina Mount baton passed in her sleep from an unknown cause at the still youthful age of 59 when Lou first heard of her passing he called it a pole ax blow yet it was nuu who got the last piece of UA's heart touchingly his handwritten letters were right by UA's bedside when she passed as she reached late middle age uina had completed her transformation into a stalwart symbol of Britain yet few knew her biggest secret and it's contained in an FBI file dating from 1944 the file deems the mount Batton persons of extremely low morals see although the Affairs of their younger days shocked polite Society there are more dangerous proclivities that they kept locked very very tight in the government files there is evidence that both uina and Louis mountbatten were by a budar taste that was considered utterly depraved for their time indeed there are suggestions that the husband and wife would enjoy their clandestine lovers together as a couple sadly though there are much darker allegations the final blow of these documents are the harrowing and Infamous accusations against UA's husband although there's no evidence she was involved sources now claim that Lou Mount baton sought out the company of young boys in some of his Affairs it's a black mark on the scandalous Mount batons that no amount of today's Progressive morals can erase uina Mount baton known for her remarkable philanthropic efforts and influential role in society lived a life defined by her dedication to humanitarian causes her tireless work particularly in the aftermath of World War II and during India's independence left a lasting impact on countless lives it doing his compassion generosity and commitment to serving others serve as an enduring Testament to the power of kindness and empathy in creating a more compassionate world if you've enjoyed these stories don't forget to show some love by hitting that like button and subscribing to our Channel stay tuned because we'll be back with more incredible 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Published: Sun Jun 16 2024