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Edwina Mountbatten died in the jungles of Borneo. The year was 1960, and she was all alone.

Well, alone, I say, except she was surrounded by letters, and they weren't letters,

as you might think, from her husband, Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India. No, these were letters from the man that she truly loved, the scourge of the British Empire, the first

Prime Minister of a Free India. His name was Jawaharlal Nairu. Now this fascinating

love triangle is so pertinent when it comes to pre-partition India politics and we're

going to be delving right in in a mini series, a four-parter for, and it's only available to members of our club.

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Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arndt.

And me, William Derrimple. Now, in the first two episodes of our Dutch East India Company series, we told the parallel story of two companies born like twins, almost

simultaneously. The English East India Company chartered by Elizabeth First in 1600 and the Dutch

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