Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Leslie H. HutchinsonWhile looking for more information about dear old uncle Dickie, I came across this story.
Apparently, Edwina Mountbatten had a taste for chocolate. I’m no fool to think that there were no such things as interracial relationships during the roaring twenties. However, I am a fool to think that it did not make its way to the Royal family. Before I begin, if you have not seen the movie, "The Bank Job" you need to see it. It is a true account of the heist of a bank box that contained photos of a member of the Royal family involved in degenerate sex acts. I think it was either Princess Margaret, or it could have been Lady Mountbatten. Sorry for the long story on this one, but it’s well worth it.
The story goes that in July 1932, the Mountbatten family was forced to bring a libel action suit against gossip columnist of 'that vulgar socialist Sunday paper, The People', as Mountbatten called it. It goes on to state, "'Her association with a colored man became so marked that they were the talk of the West End. Then one day the couple were caught in compromising circumstances."
'The sequel is that the society woman has been given hints to clear out of England for a couple of years to let the affair blow over and the hint comes from a quarter which cannot be ignored'.
King George the V saw the article; of course he was rather upset, and ordered the couple to return to London immediately to sue for libel, in order to clear the Royal family name. Problem is, the wrong person (singer Paul Robeson) was named in the suit. The Mountbattens won their case, and refused reimbursement. But this isn’t the end of the story.
King George the V saw the article; of course he was rather upset, and ordered the couple to return to London immediately to sue for libel, in order to clear the Royal family name. Problem is, the wrong person (singer Paul Robeson) was named in the suit. The Mountbattens won their case, and refused reimbursement. But this isn’t the end of the story.
Edwin, had a black lover, but as stated before it was not the Paul Robeson, as was claimed in the suit. Instead it was Leslie Hutch Hutchinson, a jazz performer who preformed with the likes of Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, and Composer Cole Parker; which was another of his lovers as well, oh yeah he was bi-sexual.
The first scandal surrounding him came in 1930, when he got the debutante Elizabeth Corbett pregnant. Her father vowed vengeance and pursued Hutch through the courts. Elizabeth managed to get a Guards officer to marry her. They had a society wedding in Sloane Square but she was already three months pregnant, and it was not until she was in labor that she warned her husband the baby might be black. He was appalled. The child was removed at birth and put up for adoption. He is also linked to screen sirens Tallulah Bankhead, and Merle Oberon, possibly two members of the Royal family the Queens aunt Princess Marina Duchess of Kent, and allegedly Princess Margaret when she was 25, and he 55. Man this guy really got around. For the full story, visit the link below. It was mind blowing for me.
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