Mountbatten supported united Ireland

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Irish state records released under the thirty year rule show that the controversial royal Lord Mountbatten, who was killed by IRA, was a convinced supporter for a united Ireland.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was killed by the Irish Republican Army in 1979, supported unification of Ireland as the ultimate solution to sectarian strife in the north of Ireland, according to records released.
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The British Queen's cousin told the Irish Ambassador to London in 1972 that he would be happy to help with efforts to secure a lasting peace on the island.
Just seven years later the 79-year-old was blown up, while on board his boat off the village of Mullaghmore, Co Sligo.
Donal O'Sullivan, then the Irish ambassador in London, reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs about a meeting with Mountbatten at a banquet at Windsor Castle on April 11, 1972.
O'Sullivan said Mountbatten, an uncle of Prince Philip, the queen's husband, had expressed hope that Prime Minister Edward Heath's approach to the North would secure reunification.
"Lord Mountbatten said he wished me to know that he and many of his friends have been deeply impressed by the positive Dublin reaction to the Heath initiative," O'Sullivan wrote.
"They hope that this can be developed into a 'major advance towards the final solution.' Reunification is the only eventual solution. If there is anything he can do to help he will be most happy to co-operate."
Mountbatten, 79, was killed on Aug. 27, 1979, by the blast from a 50-pound bomb on board his fishing boat. Also killed were Lady Patricia Brabourne, 82, Nicholas Knatchbull, 14, and Paul Maxwell, 15.

As remarkable is the release that former Ulster Unionist Prime Minister of the north of Ireland Terence O'Neill also believed a united Ireland was inevitable, according to the State papers.

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