Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia for the British forces and later the last Viceroy of India, Lord Louis Mountbatten was stationed near Peradeniya for part of the Second World War. Step back into this turbulent time with Andrew Lownie, whose revealing biography, The Mountbattens: The Lives and Loves of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten, charts the glamorous couple’s complex relationship – and their connection to Sri Lanka.
