Strong FF.
Look at that throne! I bet they had to pry him out of it.
Assuming that is the throne of the Viceroy of India, he probably couldn't get out of it soon enough. He was a horrible Viceroy and if I were judging him on just that I would have called him a Max HP rather than a Lean HP.
I'm being facetious. While Mountbatten was said to revel in the viceregalty's imperial trappings- and sitting enrobed in the throne like that, who wouldn't? I'd probably send a telegram to London saying "you don't want India? Well I do, and I'm not getting out of this chair!" With New Delhi, the Viceregal Palace's, and the country as a whole on a monumental scale, it's a testament to the difficulties of the job that its viceroys didn't all become megalomaniacs.
On a more serious note, Mountbatten did his best to keep India united, in league with Gandhi and Nehru, working with the leaders of the princely states to accept a united India. The real HP in this situation was Jinnah, although the only way to describe India's conduct in the following years would be
dick-ish as well. It is in that regard I think the British, and thus Mountbatten, were too quick to abandon the princes.
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