“This glittering biography delves into the scandal-filled and history-making partnership of Lord Louis ‘Dickie’ Mountbatten and his wife Edwina, an heiress turned humanitarian who charmed the world.”

– PEOPLE

“A juicy dual biography. Readers will be astounded by the intrigues and accomplishments of this remarkable couple.”

– Publishers Weekly

Advance praise from England for The Mountbattens:

“Incisive. Strongly recommend.”

– The Times (London)

“A page-turner. A carefully researched work of history.”

– The Spectator

“A compelling new biography. Superbly researched.”

– The Daily Express

“A study in aggressive social climbing [with] quick-moving fluency.”

– The Sunday Times (London)

“Richly entertaining and impressively well-researched. An enthralling portrait of two complex individuals whose public and private lives were somewhat inextricably entwined."

– TheDaily Mail (Biography of the Year)

“This painstakingly researched dual account of Louis and Edwina Mountbatten is genuinely enthralling.. A fitting tribute to two complex people.”

– The Observer

“By dint of prodigious research, Lownie has stripped away the accretions of fable and fiction to give us an unvarnished double portrait. It is vivid, well balanced and often sympathetic.”

– The Literary Review

"Definitively answering some of the enduring mysteries…Lownie fearlessly yet fairly provides the answers. Lownie appears to have red every book ever written about the Windsors and drilled deep into unpublished archives as well…Lownie has dug into the couple’s complex love lives just as deeply…The full ghastly truth about them has remained obscure until now, partly thanks to a judicious cover-up by the British Establishment…"

– History Today