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Lord Mountbatten's granddaughter talks reliving his assassination on Netflix's The Crown
The Crown – released on Netflix today.The British aristocrat, who is the second cousin to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles has spoken exclusively to Daily Star Online about the upcoming series, which will focus heavily on moments in history that surround the Hicks-Mountbatten family.India, 53, was just 12-years-old when her grandfather Lord Louis Mountbatten was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army during a fishing trip.IRA member Thomas McMahon had placed a radio-controlled bomb under the Prince's boat, which was later detonated just yards away from the shore.Lord Mountbatten, then aged 79, died from his injuries before he was taken ashore."The Crown, I know the first two episodes, maybe the first three - focus on