Lady Pamela Hicks

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 Barcelona, Spain
Spouse(s)	David Nightingale Hicks (m. 1960; wid. 1998)
Children	Edwina Brudenell Ashley Hicks India Hicks
Parent(s)	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, 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. As of May 2013, Lady Pamela is 687th in line for the throne.

Family background 1
India 2
Bridesmaid and Lady-in-Waiting to The Queen 3
Marriage and children 4
Later life 5
Gallery 6
Styles from birth 7
Published works 8
Ancestry 9
References 10
External links 11

Family background

Lady Pamela was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1929, the younger sister of Lady Patricia Mountbatten. Through her father, she 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

External links

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Murphy, Victoria (3 November 2012). "Revealed: Queen's lifelong friend on what happened the night Elizabeth found out her father, King George, had died". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
^ "The wedding of David Hicks and Lady Pamela Mountbatten".
^ "Lady Mountbatten dies in sleep on visit to Borneo". The Sydney Morning Herald (London). AAP. 21 February 1960. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
^ Gibson, David (2 April 1998). "David Hicks, 69, Interior Design Star of the 60s, Is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
^ 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.
^ "Love triangle at the heart of the British handover". The Sunday Times (UK). 22 July 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
^ "Pamela Mountbatten on the Jawaharlal-Edwina relationship". The Hindu (India). 18 July 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2011.

References

Ancestors 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. Countess Julia Hauke

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. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

11. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

23. Victoria of the United Kingdom

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

Ancestry

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

Published works

19 April 1929 – 27 August 1946: Miss Pamela Mountbatten
27 August 1946 – 21 June 1948: The Honourable Pamela Mountbatten
21 June 1948 – 13 January 1960: Lady Pamela Mountbatten
13 January 1960 – present: Lady Pamela Hicks

Styles from birth

Pamela Mountbatten (3rd from right) at a reception in New Delhi in October 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.

Gallery

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 wrote in 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, she 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]

Lady Pamela Hicks 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, she sold off her mother's tiara at Sotheby's.^[5]

Later life

David Nightingale Hicks died on 29 March 1998, aged 69, from lung cancer.

Edwina Victoria Louise Hicks (born 24 December 1961)
Ashley Louis David Hicks (born 18 July 1963)
India Amanda Caroline Hicks (born 5 September 1967) who acted as a bridesmaid at the wedding of The Prince of Wales, her godfather and Lady Diana Spencer.

Together, the couple had three children:^[4]

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 her cousin Sophie), 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]

Marriage and children

^[1].Gibraltar and Malta, Libya, Aden, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, Panama, Jamaica In late 1953 and early 1954, she accompanied the Queen as lady-in-waiting on the royal tour to [1]

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