Mountbatten Hero or Villain

When Louis Mountbatten the Queens cousin and Prince Philips uncle was murdered by the IRA in 1979 he was lauded as a war hero an elder statesman and a muchloved member of the royal family But did the public perception disguise the truth As a military leader he was responsible for significant loss of life while as a statesman he was responsible for the badly planned and poorly executed partition of India which still has repercussions today