Murder Victim, British Aristocracy. Son of Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma and John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne. He and his identical twin, Timothy, were the youngest of the Knatchbull children and godsons of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales. Timothy and Nicholas were with their grandfather, Lord Mountbatten, their paternal grandmother, and parents on August 27, 1979 when a terrorist bomb was deliberately detonated on their boat in Donegal Bay off the coast of Ireland. Nicholas, his grandparents, and a 15 year old Ulster boy, Paul Maxwell, were killed. Nicholas was 14. Tim wrote of Nicky's loss, which he described as losing a part of part of himself, "...not so much a bereavement as an amputation," in his 2009 memoir, "From a Clear Blue Sky."∼Son of
John Ulick &
Patricia Edwina Victoria (Mountbatten) Knatchbull
Killed by an IRA bomb aboard a boat
with this Grandparents
John Ulick &
Patricia Edwina Victoria (Mountbatten) Knatchbull
Killed by an IRA bomb aboard a boat
with this Grandparents
Murder Victim, British Aristocracy. Son of Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma and John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne. He and his identical twin, Timothy, were the youngest of the Knatchbull children and godsons of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales. Timothy and Nicholas were with their grandfather, Lord Mountbatten, their paternal grandmother, and parents on August 27, 1979 when a terrorist bomb was deliberately detonated on their boat in Donegal Bay off the coast of Ireland. Nicholas, his grandparents, and a 15 year old Ulster boy, Paul Maxwell, were killed. Nicholas was 14. Tim wrote of Nicky's loss, which he described as losing a part of part of himself, "...not so much a bereavement as an amputation," in his 2009 memoir, "From a Clear Blue Sky."∼Son of
John Ulick &
Patricia Edwina Victoria (Mountbatten) Knatchbull
Killed by an IRA bomb aboard a boat
with this Grandparents
John Ulick &
Patricia Edwina Victoria (Mountbatten) Knatchbull
Killed by an IRA bomb aboard a boat
with this Grandparents
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Nicholas Timothy Charles Knatchbull
Beloved Twin Son of
7th Lord and Lady Brabourne
Born 18th November 1964
Killed 27th August 1979 Aged 14 with his Grandparents
He took his big candle and went into another room
I cannot find, but I know he was here because of all the happiness he left behind
