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Lake Pontchartrain
is in which US state?2
Micky Dolenz and
Michael Nesmith
are the living members
of which 60s group?3
20 litres is how
many millilitres?4
In 1893 which
country became
the first to give women
the vote?5
The August bank
holiday switched
from the start to the
end of the month in
which decade?OUR DAILY
PUB QUIZCO fumes kill
car restorer
A CAR enthusiast fitting a
radio died of carbon
monoxide poisoning, an
inquest heard.
Fermin Camara, 31, was
overcome by car exhaust
fumes while restoring a
second-hand Subaru
Impreza at a mate’s garage.
He was found dead in
October with 82% of his
blood saturated with CO,
50% is the fatal level.
Worried friends had
raised the alarm about
gardener Mr Camara, who
moved to Jersey from
Madeira in 2010, the Saint
Helier hearing was told.
Retirees are
into city life
OLDER people want the
excitement of cities
instead of peaceful coun-
tryside, a study has found.
Nine out of 10 favoured
the bright lights of urban
life over the countryside.
And 68 per cent want to
do more, not less, when
they quit work, a poll of a
1,000 Brits for retirement
specialists Auriens found.
Company founder
Johnny Sandelson said:
“The traditional view of
retirement is outdated.
“Today’s retirees are
seeking adventure.”
EU wind farm
climate boost
EUROPE has potential to
produce 100 times more
wind farm energy than it
does – enough to power
the world for 30 years.
Analysis by University of
Sussex and Aarhus Univer-
sity, Den mark, identified
three times as many areas
for wind farms than past
studies, which could take
11 million extra turbines.
Co-author Prof Ben -
jamin Sovacool said: “The
huge wind power potential
across Europe needs to be
harnessed if we’re to avert
a climate catastrophe.”
sexuality have been edited or
destroyed. But one file references a
1944 interview with Elizabeth de la
Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies.
The memo says: “She states that
in these circles Lord Louis Mount-
batten and his wife are considered
persons of extremely low morals.
“She stated Lord Louis Mount-
batten was known to be a homo-
sexual with a perversion for young
boys. In Lady Decies’ opinion he is
an unfit man to direct any sort of
military operations because of this
condition. She stated further his
wife was considered equally erratic.”
And in a document from May
1968, an FBI agent discusses “a
number of reports pertaining to the
alleged homosexuality of Anthony
Eden, Earl Mountbatten and [the
diplomat] Anthony Nutting”.
Mr Lownie believes Edwina came
under scrutiny in the mid-1950s
because of her close friendship with
Indian defence minister Krishna
Menon and several men involved
with the civil rights movement.
At the same time, the FBI sent a
report on Lord Mountbatten’s
alleged homosexuality to the
Department of Justice.
Edwina had several liaisons
with black men and in April
1957 the FBI filed a memo on
allegations of an affair with
singer Paul Robeson.
Mr Lownie’s book is
published on Thursday.
[email protected]
@ParryTommen in military uniforms and
beautiful boys in school uniform”.
The first FBI files on the Earl date
to February 1944 – soon after he
was made supreme allied
commander in south-east Asia
during the Second World War.
After the war, he was the lastviceroy of India, then chief of
defence until 1965. He was killed in
an IRA bomb attack in 1979.
Homosexual acts were banned
here until 1967 and it is believed
many FBI memos on Mountbatten’sLORD Mountbatten was “a
homosexual with a perversion
for young boys”, according
newly released FBI files.
The decorated war hero – who
was a valued mentor to great-
nephew Prince Charles and was
said to have counselled him on his
love life – was under US surveil-
lance for more than three decades.
And one source described the
Earl and wife Edwina as “persons of
extremely low morals” – with him
being “an unfit man to direct any
sort of military operations” because
of his sexual tastes.
The files emerged after historian
Andrew Lownie used freedom of
information laws while researching
his new book about the couple, The
Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves.
It follows years of speculation
over the private life of Mountbatten,
who once said he and Edwina
“spent all our married lives getting
into other people’s beds”.
In Mr Lownie’s book, Ron Perks,
who was the Earl’s driver in
Malta in 1948, breaks his
silence to claim one of his
favourite places was the Red
House near Rabat, “an
upmarket gay brothel used by
naval officers”.
And Anthony Daly, a rent
boy to the rich and famous in
the 1970s, reportedly claims
he was told: “Mountbatten
had something of a fetish for
uniforms – handsome youngFBI files revealed as
book tells of uniform
fetish & brothel trips
He is unfit to
direct any sort
of military
operations
because of
this conditionFBI MEMO REPORTING LADY
DECIES’ OPINION OF THE EARLRESPECTED Retired in 1965 and with Charles in his Navy daysGOSSIP
TARGET
The Earl and
Edwina at
Palace, 1943PARTY With Philip on eve
of his wedding to ElizabethBY TOM PARRYGOOOSSSIP
Lord Mountbatten’s
‘lust for young boys’