11-28-2005, 05:59 AM
The love affair between Edwina Mountbatten, last British vicereine of India, and Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister. <b>Their particular intimacy began shortly before the Independence of 15 August 1947 </b>and continued until Lady Mountbatten's death in 1960, when she was touring medical facilities in Southeast Asia in her capacity as head of the Saint John Ambulance Brigade. Her body was found with open letters from Nehru, which she was rereading. Both lovers had lived very privileged young lives, with exceptional English public-school educations, and had undergone a conversion to careers of public service.