biography
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Mountbatten, Edwina (Cynthia Annette) Mountbatten, Countess of
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née Ashley
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| biography:
| Wife of Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, whom she married in 1922. She rendered distinguished service during the London blitz (1940–2) to the Red Cross and St John Ambulance Brigade, of which she became superintendent-in-chief in 1942. As Vicereine of India (1947), her work in social welfare brought her the friendship of Gandhi and Nehru. She died suddenly on an official tour of Borneo for the St John Ambulance Brigade. |
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