Lady Pamela Hicks
Lady Pamela Hicks | |
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Born | Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten 19 April 1929 Barcelona, Kingdom of Spain |
Noble family | Mountbatten |
Spouse(s) |
David Nightingale Hicks (m. 1960; died 1998) |
Issue | Edwina Brudenell Ashley Hicks India Hicks |
Father | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma |
Mother | Edwina Ashley |
Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks (née Mountbatten; born 19 April 1929) is a
Early life and family
Lady Pamela was born on 19 April 1929 in
Her baptism was celebrated on July 12, 1929, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. Her godparents were the King Alfonso XIII and the Duke of Kent, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock (Lady Louis' first cousin), and the Duchess of Peñaranda (María del Carmen Saavedra y Collado, Marqués de Villaviciosa). [1]
She attended Hewitt School in New York City.[2]
In 1947, Lady Pamela accompanied her parents to
Official duties
In November 1947, Lady Pamela acted as a bridesmaid to then-Princess Elizabeth at
Lady Pamela Mountbatten was the Corps Commandant of the Girls' Nautical Training Corps from around 1952 to around 1959.[5][6][7]
Marriage and children
Lady Pamela is the widow of interior decorator and designer
Together, the couple had three children:[10]
- Edwina Victoria Louise Hicks (born 24 December 1961), married the actor Jeremy Brudenell.
- Ashley Louis David Hicks (born 18 July 1963)
- India Amanda Caroline Hicks (born 5 September 1967)
David Nightingale Hicks died on 29 March 1998, aged 69, from lung cancer.
Later life
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 her mother's tiara at Sotheby's.[11]
In 2007, Lady Pamela published her memoirs of her days in
After the death of her cousin, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 2021, she is the last surviving great-grandchild of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, and following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, she became the oldest living descendant of Queen Victoria. With her daughter, India Hicks, she attended the Queen's state funeral on 19 September 2022.
In film and television
In 2016, she was portrayed in the first season of The Crown.[14] She is portrayed by Lily Travers in the 2017 film Viceroy's House.
Published and upcoming works
- Mountbatten, Pamela (2007). India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power. Foreword by India Hicks. Pavilion Books. ISBN 978-1-86205-759-3.
- ——— (2012). Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0297864820.
- ——— (2024). My Years with the Queen: and Other Stories. ISBN 978-1529148862.
References
- ^ https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2024/04/lady-pamela-hicks-celebrates-her-95th.html
- ^ Reginato, James. "The Raj Duet". Vanity Fair. No. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ https://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100410/saturday/main1.htm
- ^ 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. London. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ "Girl's Nautical Training Corps Commandant Lady Mountbatten (bottom row, 4th right) at Surbiton, Surrey training course, 18th August 1959". 8 February 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
- ^ "1952 - Lady Pamela Mountbatten visits members of Girls Nautical training corps.: The annual training course of the Girls' Nautical Training Corps - a voluntary". Retrieved 20 July 2018.
- ^ "Aug. 08, 1959 - Lady Pamela Mountbatten visits girl's nautical training corps". Retrieved 20 July 2018.
- ^ "The wedding of David Hicks and Lady Pamela Mountbatten". National Portrait Gallery, London.
- ^ "Lady Mountbatten dies in sleep on visit to Borneo". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australian Associated Press. 21 February 1960. Retrieved 14 June 2013 – via Google News.
- ^ Gibson, David (2 April 1998). "David Hicks, 69, Interior Design Star of the 60s, Is Dead". The 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. London. Archived from the original on 22 January 2003. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ Driscoll, Margarette (22 July 2007). "Love triangle at the heart of the British handover". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ "Pamela Mountbatten on the Jawaharlal-Edwina relationship". The Hindu. 18 July 2007. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
- ^ Hicks, India (29 November 2016). "Watching The Crown with Lady Pamela Hicks, Queen Elizabeth's Lady-in-Waiting". Town and Country.