Hard-hitting letter from Prince Philip reveals his anger at the IRA over murder of uncle A hard-hitting letter from Prince Philip slamming the IRA after they executed Lord Louis Mountbatten has emerged 46 years on.
Philip made the forceful remarks while responding to a letter of condolence from a friend named Richard on August 29, 1979, just two days after Mountbatten was murdered.
This whole ghastly business might have been easier to hear if it had been an accident or an ‘act of God,’ what makes it so bitter is that it was deliberately perpetrated by some people who probably consider themselves to be civilized human beings.
Writing two days after the assassination, Philip said he resented the fact the IRA 'considered themselves to be civilised human beings'.
Mountbatten, the great wartime naval commander, had been fishing at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, with his family when a radio-controlled bomb attached to the boat the previous night was detonated from shore.
