He met and danced with Edwina Ashley at the old Viceregal Lodge. They sat out the fifth dance, he then married.

MEGHNAD DESAI writes in Outlook “The best of the lot is a short memoir by Mountbatten who writes of his first visit to India in 1921 along with the Prince of Wales. He met and danced with Edwina Ashley at the old Viceregal Lodge. They sat out the fifth dance, he proposed to her and then they got married. Twenty-six years later, Mountbatten found himself in the same room in the Viceregal Lodge—now the Convocation Hall of Delhi University—conferring an honorary degree on...who else but Pandit Nehru!”