BiL was on one of the first ships to reach South Georgia - word was PA was an arrogant p@ick BUT he did not hide away and did his duty. He was one of the pilots hoovering over the ship (Gallahad I think) when it was hit to fan the smoke away from the men who were being rescued. A very dangerous manoeuvre if the ship had blown up.
I don’t like PA BUT I don’t believe we can take away from him that he did serve very bravely when he was deployed to the FI and was not protected by others.
Yes, I think it wasn't easy growing up as a Royal ''bastard''
In 1959 the Queen announced she was pregnant (with
Prince Andrew) and was due to give birth in February 1960. This would be the first child born to the Queen since her 1952 declaration. In September 1959 Edward Iwi wrote to the then Prime Minister,
Harold Macmillan and to
Buckingham Palace, about the name of the Royal Family. Iwi set out his concern as follows:
" When the new baby is born, as matters now stand it will bear the Badge of Bastardy namely, its mother's maiden name. As far as I know it will be the first legitimate child to be so born. You will recall that Windsor was the Queen's
maiden name and on marriage she took
her husband's surname of
Mountbatten.
Prince Charles and
Princess Anne were born with the surname Mountbatten. ''
And he was a target after that, the Lord Porchester rumour.
It was also his fault that the IRA had a plot against him and the Earl of Saint Andrews, school was watched by military (cue rage by parents and pupils.)
Being constitutionally more relevant than Charles in case of (republican uprising)because born to a reigning Monarch...
Lots of lies in the media about every Royal.
He returned after 5 months, aside from decoy work, some claims exist that he evacuated 72 people.
His docs were sealed in 2000(probably because of the UK Trade thing) until 2069.
Bit of trivia.
