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Lord Louis Mountbatten: Paedophile. Traitor. Above the Law.
How the Crimes of a “National Hero” May Eclipse Even Those of Jimmy Savile
and Why Nobody Wants to Talk About It
Michael East
Sep 25, 2020
Earl Mountbatten outside Knightbridge barracks, 1974 | Allan Warren
The Royal Family and sex scandals and a long and inglorious history, Britain’s “first family” seemingly long having decided that they are above reproach and the law. It is a belief that is shared amongst many with the British aristocracy. While the legal courts have often been unwilling to act, there is some comfort in the fact that Prince Andrew will find no favour in the court of public opinion. However, he is far from the first paedophile linked to Buckingham Palace. Unlike with Andrew, the crimes of Lord Louis Mountbatten were left unexposed in his lifetime and generated minimal public comment after their exposure.
Mountbatten is a towering figure in the recent history of the Royal Family and the British isles. The uncle to Prince Phillip and second cousin to the Queen, Mountbatten served as Supreme Allied Commander in East Asia, Chief of the Defence Staff and First Sea Lord. Still lauded by the right-wing press as a national hero, in part given his assassination by the IRA in 1979, he was also a paedophile, traitor and potential dictator in the making.
Paedophile
It was last year that an FBI dossier on Mountbatten revealed that the Americans had deep reservations and distaste for his Lordship. The file states that both he and his wife Edwina were “persons of extremely low morals” and that Mountbatten was a paedophile with “a perversion for young boys.”
Rupert Murdoch’s Times attempted to pass off Mountbatten’s paedophilia as merely “Lust for Young Men”. This claim not only conflates his proclivities for children with homosexuality, but it continues the media’s age-old complicity in prominent cases of child abuse. They described the Lord as a “sexually voracious man whose bisexuality became a theme of US intelligence files.”
The dossier, however, is explicit in naming his preference as “boys”.
The dossier was released under a freedom of information request and compiled in 1944 after Mountbatten was named supreme allied commander of southeast Asia. It featured comments from Baroness Decies, Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford.
Baroness Decies stated that Mountbatten was “known to be a homosexual with a perversion for young boys” and was “an unfit man to direct any sort of military operations because of this condition. She stated further that his wife, Lady Mountbatten, was considered equally erratic.” EE Conroy, head of the New York FBI field office, added in the file that she “appears to have no special motive in making the above statements.” The comments from the Baroness show that the behaviour of the Mountbattens was an open secret within elite British circles for some considerable time. While the FBI, who had absurdly feared that Mountbatten was a Marxist, had little interest once his loyalty to the West was assured.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1947 | Dutch National Archive
Mountbatten’s preference for boys, as opposed to men, was confirmed by his driver during the war, Norman Nield. Speaking with New Zealand truth, Nield admitted that he transported young boys aged 8 to 12 to his commander and was paid to keep quiet.
Historian Andrew Lownie, whose book, The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves exposed much of the scandal, conducted an interview with Anthony Daly who was a sex worker for London’s rich and famous during the 1970s. Daly revealed that “Mountbatten had something of a fetish for uniforms — handsome young men in military uniforms (with high boots) and beautiful boys in school uniform.” A 2018 interview with Daly reveals that his other clients included the spy Anthony Blunt who is said to have asked him if he was a graduate of Kincora, the notorious children’s home in Belfast where boys were sexually and physically abused by staff and prominent men in society.
Both Mountbatten and Blunt were known to each other and the writer Robin Bryans alleges in the Irish magazine Now that both Mountbatten and Blunt were both part of a paedophile ring that procured boys from schools and children’s homes in Northern Ireland. These locations include the Portora School in Enniskillen and Kincora. Several former victims of the Kincora Scandal have alleged that they were trafficked to Mountbatten at his home in Mullaghmore, County Sligo.
Lownie’s book features an interview with one of Mountbatten’s victims, a 16-year-old named only as “Amal”.
“He was very polite, very nice. I knew he was someone important. He asked if I wanted a drink or candy. He told me he liked dark-skinned people, especially Sri Lankan people as they were very friendly and very good-looking. I remember he admired my smooth skin. We gave each other oral sex in a 69 position. He was very tender and I felt comfortable about it. It seemed very natural. I know that several other boys from Kincora were brought to him on other occasions”
The claims of a “VIP Anglo-Irish Vice Ring” were further explored by Village Magazine in Ireland and collected by Joseph de Burca into an online book earlier this year.
The book details how the British establishment continues to cover up the crimes of both the network and Lord Mountbatten, with some of the other abusers still being alive today. The series highlights the links between far-right loyalist William McGrath, housemaster at Kincora and prominent politicians and personalities in England such as Blunt, Sir Knox Cunningham, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Harold Macmillan, Peter Montgomery, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone and both Mountbatten himself and his assistant Peter Murphy.
Another of Mountbatten’s known associates was the Labour MP Tom Driberg. Driberg was appointed an unofficial temporary special adviser to his Lordship while in Burma during the war and “coincidentally” was another client of Anthony Daly. Like Blunt, he was a spy for the KGB and associate of Guy Burgess of the Cambridge Five fame.
Mountbatten and his crimes failed to become widespread public knowledge thanks to the activities of MI5. Many of those involved in Northern Ireland being operatives, informants and open to blackmail by a security service whose commitment to maintaining British superiority eclipsed any nods to morality.
After his treason was exposed in 1963, Blunt agreed to now turn again. He made a confession of everything he knew in exchange for immunity and a cover-up of his crimes. His secrets not only exposed his activities with the KGB but what he knew of illicit activities amongst his friends and acquaintances in Northern Ireland. MI5 were in dreamland and realised that there was an opportunity not only for blackmail, but to keep their allies sweet with regular access to children.
While Blunt’s treason was covered-up to the public at large, there can be little doubt that a man as positioned as Mountbatten would have been fully aware of his actions. The “national hero” was seemingly willing to put aside any feelings of loyalty where his urges were concerned. However, these associations would be far from the only indications that his loyalties lay only with himself rather than his nation.
There is much more on this story including sections labelled 'Traitor' and 'Above the Law'. They can be found on Michael East's site.
Toronto Police Charge Peter Nygard With Multiple Counts
of Sexual Assault, Forcible Confinement
Fashion mogul consents in Winnipeg court to be extradited to US
on human trafficking charges
By Andrew Chen
The Epoch Times
October 1, 2021
A courtroom sketch of fashion mogul Peter Nygard during a bail hearing in Winnipeg on Jan. 6, 2021. (Tadens Mpwene/The Canadian Press/La Liberte Manitoba)
Toronto police have announced multiple charges of sexual assault against former fashion mogul Peter Nygard. Meanwhile, the 80-year-old designer consented in court Friday to be extradited to the United States to face charges there.
The Toronto Police Service said in a news release that Nygard has been charged with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement involving six women.
The alleged assaults mainly took place between the 1980s and the 2000s.
On Sept. 29, members of the Sex Crimes – Human Trafficking Enforcement Team secured an arrest warrant for Nygard, who is implicated in six cases where a man forcibly confined and sexually assaulted a woman.
Nygard is currently being held in custody in Manitoba, where he is awaiting extradition to the United States.
Nygard was arrested in December 2020 on charges including sex trafficking and racketeering. He faces nine charges in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
U.S. authorities accuse Nygard of using his influence in the fashion industry to lure women and girls with the promise of modelling and other financial opportunities. He has denied all allegations.
He appeared in court in Winnipeg for an extradition hearing on Friday morning, where he consented to being extradited to the United States only on the charge of sex trafficking.
Nygard’s lawyer Brian Greenspan said after the court hearing that his client maintains his innocence, even though he has consented to be extradited.
“As in the past, Mr. Nygard denies any allegations of criminal conduct. He denies any suggestion that he engaged in conduct for which he should be charged criminally,” Greenspan said.
A class-action lawsuit has been launched in the United States alleging Nygard sexually assaulted of dozens of women.
Tennis chiefs launch internal investigation over ‘serious’ abuse
allegations by Tennis World #4 Zverev’s ex-girlfriend
4 Oct, 2021 16:53
Men's tennis governing body the ATP has launched an internal investigation into allegations made by the ex-girlfriend of world number four Alex Zverev, including claims that he attacked her and she tried to take her own life.
Olympic Games champion Zverev issued a blanket denial after his former partner, Olga Sharypova, publicly accused him last October of seriously assaulting her.
In an interview in American online magazine Slate in August, former junior player Sharypova made new allegations, including claims that Zverev punched her in their hotel room while they were at the Shanghai Masters tournament in October 2019, leading to her taking drastic action by injecting herself with insulin.
ATP chief executive Massimo Calvelli pointed out that Zverev has always denied all of the allegations and said that the star "welcomes" the investigation.
"The allegations raised against Alexander Zverev are serious and we have a responsibility to address them," he said. "We hope our investigation will allow us to establish the facts and determine appropriate follow-up action. We will also be monitoring any further legal developments following the preliminary injunction obtained by Zverev in the German Courts."
The ATP's statement also said that it "condemns any form of violence or abuse and will investigate such allegations related to conduct at an ATP member tournament."
In a statement on August 27, Zverev said: “I have put my German and American lawyers on the matter. They have already obtained a preliminary injunction against the source and author who publishes the false accusations.
"The court followed our arguments and claims that the accusations are defamatory and false. Therefore, my lawyers have initiated new proceedings against the source and the author."
The 24-year-old "categorically and unequivocally" denies abusing the Russian former junior player.
"On the other hand, I fully support the ATP’s creation of a domestic violence policy and I reiterate that I will not address this issue further," he added.
The ATP has separately completed an independent safeguarding report it commissioned earlier this season under the watch of Chris Smart, a former Detective Chief Inspector of the UK's Metropolitan Police.
"ATP will now evaluate the recommendations to identify immediate next steps and develop a longer-term safeguarding strategy relating to all matters of abuse, including domestic violence," it said.
Calvelli added: "As an organization, we recognize the need to be doing more to ensure everyone involved in professional tennis feels safe and protected."
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