Lady Pamela Hicks
| Lady Pamela Hicks | |
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| Born | 19 April 1929 |
| Spouse | David Nightingale Hicks (m.13 January 1960 – 29 March 1998) |
| Children | Edwina Brudenell Ashley Hicks India Hicks |
| Parents | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Edwina Ashley |
Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks (née Mountbatten; born 19 April 1929) is a British aristocrat. She is the younger daughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma by his wife, the former Edwina Ashley. Through her father, Hicks is a first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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[edit] Family background
Hicks was born in Barcelona in 1929. She is the younger sister of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma. Through her father, Hicks is a first cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh and the second great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. Through her mother, she is the second great-granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.
During her youth, Hicks accompanied her parents to India and remained with them throughout her father's term as Viceroy of pre-Independence India and then Governor-General of post-Partition India through 1948.
She is the widow of designer David Nightingale Hicks (25 March 1929 – 29 March 1998), son of Herbert Hicks and Iris Elsie Platten. They were married on 13 January 1960 at Romsey Abbey in Hampshire. Together, they had three children:
- Edwina Victoria Louise Hicks (born 24 December 1961)
- Ashley Louis David Hicks (born 18 July 1963)
- India Amanda Caroline Hicks (born 5 September 1967)
Hicks is a former lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth II. In 1954, she accompanied the Queen on the royal tour to Australia and New Zealand. She acted as a bridesmaid to then-Princess Elizabeth at her 1947 wedding to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (her first cousin).
In 2007, Hicks published her memoirs of her days in Delhi when the Union Jack came down. She writes in the book India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power that while her mother, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and Jawaharlal Nehru, the future prime minister of India, were deeply in love, "the relationship remained platonic".[1][2]
Her place in the line of succession to the British Throne is approximately 500th.
[edit] Styles from birth
- Miss Pamela Mountbatten (1929–1945)
- The Hon. Pamela Mountbatten (1945–1948)
- Lady Pamela Mountbatten (1948–1960)
- Lady Pamela Hicks (1960-present)
[edit] Published works
- Mountbatten, Pamela; Hicks, India (foreword). India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power, Pavilion Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1862057593
[edit] Ancestry
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[edit] References
- ^ "Love triangle at the heart of the British handover". The Sunday Times. UK. 22 July 2007. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2115350.ece. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
- ^ "Pamela Mountbatten on the Jawaharlal-Edwina relationship". The Hindu. India. 18 July 2007. http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/18/stories/2007071862131300.htm. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
^ http://www.sueddeutsche.de/szamwochenende Pamela Hicks on the Royal Wedding in 2011. Interview by Peter Littger, published in the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 23th April 2011.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Louis Ellingsworth |
Line of succession to the British throne | Succeeded by Angelica Hicks |
| Preceded by Ludovic Knatchbull |
Line of succession to the title Earl Mountbatten of Burma 10th position |
Succeeded by Ashley Hicks |
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