Jawaharlal Nehru Former Prime Minister of India

Nehu's Black Love story


 

Sri Jawaharlal Nehru was a fierce anti-imperialist.  But he fell in love with the wife of Lord Mountbatten, the last Permanent Agent who ruled Britain in India.  That relationship, which lasted until Elvina's death, was no secret to the Nehru family or Lord Mountbatten.  After the liberation of India, Lord Mountbatten and Elvina left, but she went to India alone two or three times a year.  They were all extremely private trips.  She got off the plane and went straight to Nehru's Supreme House.  It is often said that she spent that holiday with Nehru in Kashmir.


 Unfortunately, Elvina died in 1960 while touring the islands of Borneo.  She was then 58 years old.  There were a few letters scattered on the bed in the room where she died.  There was another collection of articles in a suitcase at the foot of the bed.  They were shown to Lord Mountbatten and his daughter, Pamela, who came to her room.  Following this incident, Pamela Mountbatten wrote:


 "My father had never seen any of those letters before.  He told me that there was nothing in those letters that could hurt his heart.  But my father, who had a very big heart, told me to read it in front of me.  I think if there was any doubt in me he wanted to get rid of it.  Yes, as my father said, there was nothing in those letters that could hurt our hearts.  They were written according to such a great rule.  One of Nehru's articles began, "Even before India gained independence," while the whole of India was asleep in the middle of the night, I was dreaming vividly about freedom and love without closing my eyes.


 According to Lady Elvina's last will and testament, her body was to be placed in a coffin and buried in the southern coastal waters of Britain.  Accordingly, the Queen of India was scattering Indian flowers on the seas when the British navy was slowly sinking her body to the seabed in a ship with her escort boats.

 ============================================= Upali Jayasinghe ==  ==========

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