page_title: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
caption_attribution_description: English: Earl Mountbatten of Burma
context_page_description: Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS, known informally as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.
  In 1979, along with three other people, including a grandson Nicholas, he was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, which planted a bomb in his fishing boat, Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.
context_section_description: Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), known informally as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.
  In 1979, along with three other people, including a grandson Nicholas, he was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), which planted a bomb in his fishing boat, Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.
caption: Mountbatten in 1976 by Allan Warren
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