New Delhi: The UK government is pouring money like water to keep documents and letters related to Edwina Mountbatten and her husband Lord Mountbatten secret. A media report says that the British government wants to keep these letters and diaries (especially around the partition of India) by Mountbatten and his wife Edwina a secret. They fear that making it public could reveal the secrets of the Partition of India and Edwina's relationship. The report says that a writer named Andrew Loni has demanded that the documents be viewed, but the British government wants to stop the author from accessing the documents.
In fact, the British Government fears that if those documents are made public, they could damage relations between India, Pakistan and the UK. Mentions that Edwina Mountbatten's "special" relationship with India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru is well known and many experts also say that Nehru had endangered India's national interests because of his relationship with Edwina. According to the report, in a letter, Edwina had written to Nehru, 'I hate to see you go in the morning. You left me with a strange calm. Perhaps, I brought you the same?' Nehru replied, 'Life is a dull episode. Author Andrew Loni had filed a petition with the UK government seeking the release of Mountbatten documents and successfully acquired most of them under the British Freedom of Information Law. However, documents relating to 1947-48 were not released. These documents include several diaries and letters written by the Mountbatten couple. Loni said there must be something special about these documents, which is why the university and the government are spending millions of pounds to prevent them from the public.
According to the report, the British government is struggling hard to protect those documents and so far has shed more than 6,00,000 pounds (about Rs 6 crore) to hide these documents. During a recent tribunal hearing, Lonier's lawyer Clara Hammer said Lord Mountbatten's diary Entry on July 12, 1947, revealed that she had dinner with British Judge Cyril Radcliffe, head of the Border Commission and his secretary Christopher Beaumont, a media report reported. But from the next day, the diary Entry has been revised by the UK Government saying that these details could spoil Britain's relations with India and Pakistan. Hammer added that July 12, 1947, was the time Mountbatten should not have had contact with Radcliffe. The diary Entry of 6th August 1947 has also been changed. The amendment to the documents also raises several questions about Mountbatten's role in the partition of India and the deaths of thousands of people in the violence that followed. It also questions the conduct of India's PM Nehru of that time and explains how his personal attachment to Edwina had affected India's national interests at that time.
According to media reports, Professor Chris Woolger, a retired archaeologist and curator at the University of Southampton Library, who has these documents, has termed it sensitive before the tribunal. He further said that it contains details about the partition of Britain's royal family and India, which could create conflict with India and Pakistan. Woolger told the tribunal that the cabinet office had responded within 3 hours, assuming that the documents were sensitive and should be closed. These documents are part of the Broadlands Archive, which was stored in more than 4500 boxes. These secret documents include 47 volumes of Lord Mountbatten's diary and 36 volumes of Edwina Mountbatten. They were held at the Family Property of Broadlands House, Mountbatten and sold to Southampton university. According to the report, Southampton University used several million pounds of public money to buy those documents. Southampton University is now refusing to share letters between Edwina and Nehru.
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