Louis Mountbatten

He died when his small fishing boat was blown up by terrorists. Two relations and a local boy also perished in the explosion.
He was a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Until late in his life Mountbatten gave credence to the theory that it was David Lloyd George's government that had been responsible for denying the deposed emperor and his family asylum in England. However, it has now been confirmed that the government immediately offered asylum to the entire family following the Tsar's abdication, but was forced to withdraw this offer following objections from King George V.
First Cousin of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Anastasia, and Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov.
In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards his maternal first cousin Grand Duchess Marie, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.
Brother of Princess Alice of Battenberg.

There are probably greater painters than Noel, greater novelists than Noel, greater librettists, greater composers of music, greater singers, greater dancers, greater comedians, greater tragedians, greater stage producers, greater film directors, greater cabaret artists, greater TV stars. If there are, they are fourteen different people. Only one man combined all fourteen labels - The Master.
If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.
It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
I am much more intelligent than you think.

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