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Edwina Mountbatten

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The Resume

    (November 28, 1901-February 21, 1960)
    Born in Romsey, England, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley
    Married Lord Louis Mountbatten (1922)

Why she might be annoying:

    A biographer described her as embarking on 'two decades of frivolity' after marrying Mountbatten.
    She successfully sued the newspaper 'The People' for suggesting that she was having an affair with singer Paul Robeson.
    At the time, she was actually having an affair with jazz musician Leslie Hutchinson, for whom she allegedly commissioned Cartier to design a diamond-studded penis sheath.
    While her husband was serving as last Viceroy of India, she allegedly slept with future prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Romance novelist Barbara Cartland called her 'a complex personality... a man's brain in a very beautiful woman's body.'
    With the start of World War II, she found a new sense of purpose, joining the St. John's Ambulance Brigade and organizing 60,000 social workers during the London Blitz.
    She was considered a heroine in India and Pakistan for her efforts to relieve suffering during the violence that followed Partition.
    She died in Borneo while on an inspection tour for the St. John's Ambulance Brigade.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 72 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 20 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 26 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying