RIP: Lord Brabourne

"The marriage was to endure under unimaginable pressures, and
the couple remained devoted to the end"

The 7th Lord Brabourne, who has died aged 80, was, under the name
John Brabourne, a film producer whose credits included Sink the Bismarck!
(1960), Death on the Nile (1978) and A Passage to India (1984); married for
almost 60 years to Countess Mountbatten of Burma, the daughter of Earl
Mountbatten, Brabourne was on board the fishing boat that was blown up off the
west coast of Ireland by an IRA bomb in 1979, killing his father-in-law, his
mother and his son, Nicholas Knatchbull.

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