According to Pamela, daughter of Lady Edwina Mountbatten and Lord Mountbatten, Edwina could do anything for Nehru and all her sympathies lay with him and his people. Pamela further says that her mother's involvement with Nehru sometimes made life difficult for her father as she would often ask him to do something for the Indians which he knew he could not do without upsetting the other side. This resulted in fearfull rows between them.
On the other hand, because Edwina identified so closely with the Indians, she was able to tell her husband what their true feelings were about specific subjects and this proved invaluable to Mountbatten in his negotiation.
