'The Crown Boat Explosion' Explained: Here's the true story behind the incident

Ever since release of Crown season 4 on vember 15, fans have been swooning over new season. new season has a strong female influence with trio, Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana carrying season’s storyline on ir shoulders.

However, aside from riveting storyline of Charles and Diana, and Queen’s horn locking with Margaret Thatcher, Crown season 4 also featured a disturbing Boat Explosion that killed Lord Mountbatten. 

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Crown Boat Explosion: Explained 

Crown Season 4 which follows royal family from 1977 to 1990, opens with assassination of Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten. Lord Mountbatten played by British actor Charles Dance was a British Royal Navy officer and statesman. He was also uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. During  Second World War, Lord Mountbatten h served as  Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command. He was also last Viceroy of India (1947) and first goverr-general of independent India (1947–1948). 

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Crown features disturbing event of Royal Boat explosion that killed Lord Mountbatten. Lord Mountbatten was holidaying at his summer home, Classiebawn Castle, in Mullaghmore, a small seaside vill in County Sligo in rth-west of Ireland. vill was only 19 km from  border with County Fermanagh in rrn Ireland. This was near an area kwn to be used as a cross-border refuge by Irish Republican Army members.

According to Britannica, in 1978, IRA h allegedly attempted to assassinate Lord Mountbatten by shooting him as he was aboard his boat. However, poor wear h prevented sniper from taking his shot. However, ar opportunity arrived soon after in August 1979, when Lord Mountbatten was killed by an IRA-planted bomb on his fishing boat.

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Who killed Lord Mountbatten?

Crown shows that IRA member Thomas McMahon h slipped onto unguarded boat a night before Royal boat explosion and h attached a rio-controlled bomb weighing 50 pounds. When Mountbatten and his party brought boat merely a few hundred yards from shore, bomb was detonated.  While Crown does t feature this, a report in Britannica reveals that Lord Mountbatten, n d 79, was pulled alive from water by fishermen. However, he succumbed to his injuries. 

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Along with Mountbatten, his elder daughter Patricia, Ly Brabourne and her husband Lord Brabourne were also on onboard along with ir twin sons Nicholas and Timothy Knatchbull. Lord Brabourne's mor Doreen, Dowr Ly Brabourne was also present. In dition to Royal family, Paul Maxwell, a young crew member from Enniskillen in County Fermanagh was also aboard. blast killed Nicholas (14) and Paul (15), while ors were seriously injured. Doreen, Dowr Ly Brabourne (83), also died from her injuries following day. Here's what fans on Twitter thought about Lord Mountbatten's death.