Shadow V, with a party of six, including his eldest daughter, Patricia. The Provisional IRA blew it up. Mountbatten was killed, along with his 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas; Nicholas's grandmother, the 83-year-old Dowager Lady Brabourne; and a 15-year-old boat boy, Paul Maxwell.
The Royal family and the world mourned; in New Delhi, shops closed for a week.The family has been hitherto quiet, hardly discussing either its illustrious history or its great tragedy.
But that has now changed. On 24 March Sotheby's will sell property from Newhouse, Patricia and her husband Lord (John) Brabourne's Kentish home, almost four years after her death.If this sounds surprising, it's not, explains Lady Joanna Knatchbull, Patricia's eldest daughter.
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