An evening with India...

Talking to myself of people wanting to assassinate the Royalty I just came across a documentary on the telly about the IRA assassination of Lord Mountbatton.

They interviewed his granddaughter India (named after the fact that Lord M was the last Viceroy).  Had to laugh when she said something like “he didn’t really live in a castle it was just a mansion with a turret”. 

Sorry you seemed like a nice lady but nobody's buying you're middle class, India.

For some reason the security services didn’t protect Lord M properly and the IRA put a remote control bomb on his boat.   

I always wondered if the lack of enthusiasm to protect Lord Mountbatten had anything to do with this…

…but it seems more likely watching the documentary that the silly old fool just had no idea how close to the troubles he was living or the scale of the problem.  Then again this was a man so vain he thought he could run the country better than Harold Wilson.  Then again maybe that wasn't that hard in the 60s...

There were a few things I hadn’t thought about in the documentary … such as … the relatives that also died on the boat and the coordinated terror attacks on the paratroopers on the same day.  Odd now to see the scale of the troubles… there was the obligatory footage of the man with the blood stained white surrender hanky on bloody Sunday.

Prince Charles called Lord Mountbatton the “grandfather” he never had but never-the-less when the peace process eventually came the Queen shook Martin McGuiness’s hand.  Well, that's her job I suppose shaking the hands of dubious people... nice to see her working for a living at least...

She semed to draw the line at asking “and what do you do?” ...