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== Marriage and children ==
== Marriage and children ==
Lady Pamela is the widow of interior decorator and designer [[David Nightingale Hicks]] (25 March 1929&nbsp;–&nbsp;29 March 1998), son of Herbert Hicks and Iris Elsie Platten. They were married on 13 January 1960 at [[Romsey Abbey]] in [[Hampshire]]. The bridesmaids were [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]], Princess Clarissa of Hesse (daughter of [[Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark]]), [[Lady Amanda Ellingworth|Lady Amanda Knatchbull]], Victoria Marten (god-daughter of the bride), and the Hon. Joanna Knatchbull (daughter of the bride's sister [[Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma|Patricia]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=The wedding of David Hicks and Lady Pamela Mountbatten|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw125739/The-wedding-of-David-Hicks-and-Lady-Pamela-Mountbatten|publisher=[[National Portrait Gallery, London]]}}</ref> Upon returning from honeymoon in the West Indies and New York she learned the death of his mother in February 1960.<ref name=smh21feb>{{cite news|title=Lady Mountbatten dies in sleep on visit to Borneo|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19600222&id=pbcyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GOYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4298,2221738|accessdate=14 June 2013|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=21 February 1960|agency=AAP|location=London}}</ref>
Lady Pamela is the widow of interior decorator and designer [[David Nightingale Hicks]] (25 March 1929&nbsp;–&nbsp;29 March 1998), son of Herbert Hicks and Iris Elsie Platten. They were married on 13 January 1960 at [[Romsey Abbey]] in [[Hampshire]]. The bridesmaids were [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]], Princess Clarissa of Hesse (daughter of [[Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark]]), [[Lady Amanda Ellingworth|Lady Amanda Knatchbull]], Victoria Marten (god-daughter of the bride), and the Hon. Joanna Knatchbull (daughter of the bride's sister [[Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma|Patricia]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=The wedding of David Hicks and Lady Pamela Mountbatten|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw125739/The-wedding-of-David-Hicks-and-Lady-Pamela-Mountbatten|publisher=[[National Portrait Gallery, London]]}}</ref> Upon returning from honeymoon in the West Indies and New York she learned the death of her mother in February 1960.<ref name=smh21feb>{{cite news|title=Lady Mountbatten dies in sleep on visit to Borneo|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19600222&id=pbcyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GOYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4298,2221738|accessdate=14 June 2013|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=21 February 1960|agency=AAP|location=London}}</ref>


Together, the couple had three children:<ref name="NYTimes040298">{{cite news|first=David|last=Gibson|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/02/world/david-hicks-69-interior-design-star-of-the-60-s-is-dead.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|title=David Hicks, 69, Interior Design Star of the 60's, Is Dead|work=New York Times|date=2 April 1998|accessdate=14 June 2013}}</ref>
Together, the couple had three children:<ref name="NYTimes040298">{{cite news|first=David|last=Gibson|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/02/world/david-hicks-69-interior-design-star-of-the-60-s-is-dead.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|title=David Hicks, 69, Interior Design Star of the 60's, Is Dead|work=New York Times|date=2 April 1998|accessdate=14 June 2013}}</ref>

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Pamela Hicks
Pamela Mountbatten with Jawaharlal Nehru as she was about to leave India in June 1948.
Born
Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten

(1929-04-19) 19 April 1929 (age 95)
Barcelona, Spain
SpouseDavid Nightingale Hicks (m.13 January 1960 – 29 March 1998)
ChildrenEdwina Brudenell
Ashley Hicks
India Hicks
Parent(s)Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, formerly 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, Edwina Mountbatten. Through her father, Lady Pamela is a first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and a great niece of the last Tsarina of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna. In May 2013, Lady Pamela is 687th in line for the throne.

Family background

Lady Pamela was born in Barcelona in 1929. She is the younger sister of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma. Through her father, Lady Pamela is a first cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh and a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. Through her mother, she is the second great-granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. During her youth, Lady Pamela lived with her paternal grandmother, Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, during school holidays.

India

In 1947 Lady Pamela accompanied her parents to India remaining with them throughout her father's term as Viceroy of pre-Independence India and then Governor-General of post-Partition India through 1948, living with them in Government House, New Delhi and the summer Viceregal Lodge in Simla.

Bridesmaid and Lady-in-Waiting to The Queen

In November 1947, Lady Pamela acted as a bridesmaid to then-Princess Elizabeth at her 1947 wedding to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (her first cousin).[1] As lady-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth she was with her and the Duke of Edinburgh in Kenya when King George VI died on 6 February 1952.[1] In late 1953 and early 1954, she accompanied the Queen as lady-in-waiting on the royal tour to Jamaica, Panama, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Libya, Malta and Gibraltar.[1]

Marriage and children

Lady Pamela is the widow of interior decorator and 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. The bridesmaids were Princess Anne, Princess Clarissa of Hesse (daughter of Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark), Lady Amanda Knatchbull, Victoria Marten (god-daughter of the bride), and the Hon. Joanna Knatchbull (daughter of the bride's sister Patricia).[2] Upon returning from honeymoon in the West Indies and New York she learned the death of her mother in February 1960.[3]

Together, the couple had three children:[4]

Later life

Lady Pamela has been a Director of H Securities Unlimited, a fund management and brokerage firm, since 1991. She is a former director of Cottesmore Farms. In 2002, Lady Pamela sold off her late mother's tiara at Sotheby's.[5] In 2007, Lady Pamela published her memoirs of her days in New Delhi and Simla, when India was partitioned into India and Pakistan and 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".[6][7] In 2012, Lady Pamela published the second volume of her memoirs titled "Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten", chronicling her childhood, her time in India and her time as lady-in-waiting to The Queen.[1]

  • Pamela Mountbatten (3rd from right) at a reception in New Delhi in October 1947
    Pamela Mountbatten (3rd from right) at a reception in New Delhi in October 1947
  • Mohandas K. Gandhi with Pamela Mountbatten, 1947.
    Mohandas K. Gandhi with Pamela Mountbatten, 1947.
  • Queen Elizabeth II and her Lady-in-Waiting Lady Pamela Mountbatten arrive at a Women's Reception at Brisbane City Hall, 1954.
    Queen Elizabeth II and her Lady-in-Waiting Lady Pamela Mountbatten arrive at a Women's Reception at Brisbane City Hall, 1954.

Styles from birth

  • Miss Pamela Mountbatten (1929–1945)
  • The Hon. Pamela Mountbatten (1945–1948)
  • Lady Pamela Mountbatten (1948–1960)
  • Lady Pamela Hicks (1960-present)

Published works

  • Mountbatten, Pamela; Hicks, India (foreword). India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power, Pavilion Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-86205-759-3
  • Hicks, Pamela. Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012. ISBN 978-0297864820

Ancestry

Family of Lady Pamela Hicks
16. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
8. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
17. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden
4. Prince Louis of Battenberg
18. Count John Maurice Hauke
9. Princess Julia of Battenberg
19. Sophie de la Fontaine
2. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
20. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine
10. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
21. Princess Elizabeth of Prussia
5. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
22. Albert, Prince Consort
11. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
23. Queen Victoria
1. Lady Pamela Hicks
24. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
12. Anthony Evelyn Ashley
25. Emily Clavering-Cowper
6. Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple
26. Walter Farquhar, 3rd Baronet
13. Sybella Charlotte Farquhar
27. Mary Octavia Somerset
3. Edwina Ashley
28. Jacob Cassel
14. Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel
29. Amalia Rosenheim
7. Amalia Mary Cassel
30. Robert Thompson Maxwell
15. Annette Mary Maxwell
31. Margaret Wilson

References

  1. ^ a b c d Murphy, Victoria (3 November 2012). "Revealed: Queen's lifelong friend on what happened night she found out her father king had died". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  2. ^ "The wedding of David Hicks and Lady Pamela Mountbatten". National Portrait Gallery, London.
  3. ^ "Lady Mountbatten dies in sleep on visit to Borneo". The Sydney Morning Herald. London. AAP. 21 February 1960. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  4. ^ Gibson, David (2 April 1998). "David Hicks, 69, Interior Design Star of the 60's, Is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  5. ^ Roy, Amid (16 November 2002). "Crown of Raj last family on sale - Lady Mountbatten's tiara to go under hammer at Sotheby's". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  6. ^ "Love triangle at the heart of the British handover". The Sunday Times. UK. 22 July 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  7. ^ "Pamela Mountbatten on the Jawaharlal-Edwina relationship". The Hindu. India. 18 July 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
Lines of succession
Preceded by
Louis Ellingsworth
 Line of succession to the British throne Succeeded by
Angelica Hicks


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