🗓#OTD in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA, along with 3 other victims, by a bomb planted on his fishing boat. Reflect on his life and legacy tonight at 11 PM in Private Lives of the Windsors: Lord Mountbatten. | Smithsonian Channel

21K views · 878 reactions | On this day in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten was assassinated off the coast of Ireland by members of the IRA. The attack came at the height of a decades-long battle for control of Northern Ireland known as "the Troubles". Here we remember the fateful day a member of the Royal Family was murdered in cold blood. | The Royal Family Channel | Facebook

Another of my favourite scenes from ‘The Crown’. So much history to unpack in these scenes, as Churchill announces the Accession of Queen Elizabeth II. From the link to previous queens such as Elizabeth I and the dawn of a new reign, to Princess Margaret being told to wait as her sister is now Queen, to the foreboding figure of Queen Mary, the grandmother Elizabeth had always curtsied to, now curtsying to her, having just written to her pointing out that while the new queen mourned her father, s