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The Mountbattens: their lives and loves

Part of the 30th University of Cambridge Alumni Festival. Festival programme: www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/festival Based on his Sunday Times bestseller, Andrew Lownie gives an enthralling portrait of the private – they had an open marriage and many affairs – and public lives of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten covering their wartime careers, period as Viceroy & Vicereine of India and links to Royal Family. Mr Andrew Lownie Andrew Lownie read history at Magdalene, where he was President of the Union, before going on to take a Masters and Doctorate at Edinburgh University and returning to Cambridge as a bye-fellow at Churchill College. His books include biographies of the writer John Buchan, spy Guy Burgess, and the forthcoming ‘After the Abdication: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile.’ A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is President of the Biographers Club, a trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information and since 1988 has run his own literary agency.