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And when Mountbatten met Jimmy Savile in the 1960s, the two of them had an immediate rapport, which Savile described as a, quote, attraction of opposites.

Savile was the working class clown.

while Mountbatten had no less than 12 noble or military titles to his name.

Before long, Mountbatten was asking Jimmy Savile to give speeches in his stead during official events, where Savile would speak and joke and make everyone laugh, and Mountbatten, all he'd have to do is cut the ribbon, take a couple pictures.

Ribbon made out of metal?

Well, Saville took the call in Mountbatten, the governor, while Mountbatten very ominously referred to Saville as the fixer.

Now, this could have been a reference to Jim will fix it, but Lord Mountbatten did indeed have quite a bit to fix.

Like Saville, Mountbatten had a ravenous sexual appetite for both sexes and all ages, although Mountbatten certainly leaned closer to the boys than Jimmy Saville.

Attraction of opposites.

See, and that's nice.

Well, according to Mountbatten's biographer, his home was, quote, awash with young, good-looking naval ratings bustling about the place with no apparent purpose.

And Mountbatten's gay friends affectionately referred to him as, this is nice, Mount Bottom.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with being secretly gay or bisexual or what have you.

We could have got a whole other Netflix show out of that.

But Mountbatten's secrets were far worse than simply mounting the bottoms of various consenting British sailors.

Oh, yeah, yeah, well, that's just, you know, that's just boys being boys.

Alan something.

There we go.

Turning, Alan Turing.

Alan Turing, yeah, Alan Turing.