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{{Infobox noble<br />
| name = Lady Pamela Hicks<br />
| image = Pamela Mountbatten.jpg<br />
| birth_name = Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1929|4|19|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Barcelona]], Spain<br />
| father = [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]]<br />
| mother = [[Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma|Edwina Ashley]]<br />
| spouse = {{marriage|[[David Nightingale Hicks]] <br/>|1960 |1998 |end=d}}<br />
| issue = Edwina Brudenell<br/>[[Ashley Hicks]]<br/>[[India Hicks]]<br />
| noble family = [[Mountbatten family|Mountbatten]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks''' (née '''Mountbatten'''; born 19 April 1929) is a [[British nobility|British aristocrat]] and relative of the [[British royal family]]. She is the younger daughter of [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]], formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg, and [[Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma]]. Through her father, Lady Pamela is a first cousin of the late [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and a grandniece of the last Empress of Russia, [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Alexandra Feodorovna]]. She served as a bridesmaid and later as a [[lady-in-waiting]] to [[Queen Elizabeth II]].<br />
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== Early life and family ==<br />
Lady Pamela was born on 19 April 1929 in [[Barcelona]], Spain to [[Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma|Edwina Ashley]] and [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]]. She is the second of two children, as a younger sister of [[Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma]]. A member of the [[Mountbatten family]] by birth, she descended from the [[Battenberg family]], a [[morganatic]] cadet branch of the [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt|House of Hesse-Darmstadt]]. At the request of [[George V]] her grandparents [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]] and [[Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine]] relinquished their German princely titles in 1917 in exchange for titles in the [[British peerage]] due to [[Anti-German sentiment|anti-German sentiment in Britain]]. Her father, who was also born a prince of Battenberg, was later created [[Earl Mountbatten of Burma]]. Through her father she is a great-great granddaughter of [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]. Her mother, Edwina, was the daughter of [[Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple]]. Through her mother, Lady Pamela is also a great-great granddaughter of [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury]]. Through her father, she is a first cousin of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]].<br />
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She attended [[Hewitt School]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Reginato|first1=James|title=The Raj Duet|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2013/09/princess-diana-discoing-mountbatten-memoir|access-date=11 January 2018|issue=5 September 2013|magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref><br />
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In 1947, Lady Pamela accompanied her parents to [[India]] remaining with them throughout her father's term as [[Viceroy]] of [[British Raj|pre-Independence India]] and then [[Governor-General of India|Governor-General]] of [[Indian Independence Act 1947|post-Partition India]] through 1948, living with them in [[Rashtrapati Bhavan|Government House]], [[New Delhi]] and the summer Viceregal Lodge in [[Shimla|Simla]].<br />
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== Official duties ==<br />
[[File:StateLibQld 1 167035 Queen Elizabeth II and her Lady-in-Waiting arrive at a Women's Reception at Brisbane City Hall, 1954.jpg|thumb|left|Queen Elizabeth II and her lady-in-waiting Lady Pamela Mountbatten arrive at a Women's Reception at Brisbane City Hall, 1954.]]<br />
In November 1947, Lady Pamela acted as a bridesmaid to then-Princess Elizabeth at [[Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh|her 1947 wedding]] to [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]].<ref name=vic3nov/> As [[lady-in-waiting]] to [[Elizabeth II|Princess Elizabeth]] she was with her and the Duke of Edinburgh in Kenya when [[King George VI]] died on 6 February 1952.<ref name=vic3nov/> 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]].<ref name=vic3nov/><br />
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Lady Pamela Mountbatten was the Corps Commandant of the [[Girls' Nautical Training Corps]] from around 1952 to around 1959.<ref name="pamela1">{{cite web |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/girls-nautical-training-corps-commandant-lady-mountbatten-news-photo/79665627#/girls-nautical-training-corps-commandant-lady-mountbatten-at-surbiton-picture-id79665627 |title=Girl's Nautical Training Corps Commandant Lady Mountbatten (bottom row, 4th right) at Surbiton, Surrey training course, 18th August 1959|access-date=20 July 2018 }}</ref><ref name="pamela2">{{cite web |url=https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/ZUK-19600108-p01-k09-1298 |title=1952 - Lady Pamela Mountbatten visits members of Girls Nautical training corps.: The annual training course of the Girls' Nautical Training Corps - a voluntary|access-date=20 July 2018 }}</ref><ref name="pamela3">{{cite web |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-aug-08-1959-lady-pamela-mountbatten-visits-girls-nautical-training-69359070.html|title=Aug. 08, 1959 - Lady Pamela Mountbatten visits girl's nautical training corps|access-date=20 July 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==Marriage and children==<br />
[[File:Nehru with Pamela Mountbatten.jpg|thumb|upright|Lady Pamela with Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] in India (June 1948)]]<br />
Lady Pamela is the widow of interior decorator and designer [[David Nightingale Hicks]] (25 March 1929&nbsp;– 29 March 1998), son of stockbroker 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|her cousin Sophie]]), Victoria Marten (god-daughter of the bride), the Hon. Joanna Knatchbull and [[Lady Amanda Ellingworth|the Hon. Amanda Knatchbull]] (daughters 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, Lady Pamela learnt of the death of her mother in February 1960.<ref name="smh21feb">{{Cite news |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19600222&id=pbcyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GOYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4298,2221738 |title = Lady Mountbatten dies in sleep on visit to Borneo |date = 21 February 1960 |work = The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date = 14 June 2013 |agency = Australian Associated Press |via = Google News }}</ref><br />
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Together, the couple had three children:<ref name="NYTimes040298">{{cite news|first=David|last=Gibson|url=https://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 60s, Is Dead|work=The New York Times|date=2 April 1998|access-date=14 June 2013}}</ref><br />
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*Edwina Victoria Louise Hicks (born 24 December 1961)<br />
*[[Ashley Hicks|Ashley Louis David Hicks]] (born 18 July 1963)<br />
*[[India Hicks|India Amanda Caroline Hicks]] (born 5 September 1967)<br />
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David Nightingale Hicks died on 29 March 1998, aged 69, from [[lung cancer]].<br />
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==Later life==<br />
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]].<ref name=tt16nov>{{cite news |last = Roy |first = Amid |title = Crown of Raj last family on sale: Lady Mountbatten’s tiara to go under hammer at Sotheby's |url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1021116/asp/frontpage/story_1391035.asp |access-date = 14 June 2013 |newspaper = The Telegraph |location = London |date = 16 November 2002 }}</ref><br />
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In 2007, Lady Pamela published her memoirs of her days in [[New Delhi]] and [[Shimla|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, [[Edwina Mountbatten|Countess Mountbatten of Burma]], and [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the future [[Prime Minister of India]], were deeply in love, "the relationship remained platonic".<ref>{{Cite news |url = https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/love-triangle-at-the-heart-of-the-british-handover-qhvglq3q3t9 |title = Love triangle at the heart of the British handover |last = Driscoll |first = Margarette |date = 22 July 2007 |work = The Sunday Times |access-date = 11 April 2017 |location = London }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/18/stories/2007071862131300.htm |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070911163209/http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/18/stories/2007071862131300.htm |url-status = dead |archive-date = 11 September 2007 |title = Pamela Mountbatten on the Jawaharlal-Edwina relationship |date = 18 July 2007 |work = [[The Hindu]] |access-date = 2 March 2011 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=vic3nov>{{cite news |last = Murphy |first = Victoria |title = Revealed: Queen's lifelong friend on what happened the night Elizabeth found out her father, King George, had died |url = https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queens-lifelong-friend-pamela-hicks-1414271 |access-date = 14 June 2013 |newspaper = Daily Mirror |location = London |date = 3 November 2012 }}</ref><br />
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==In film and television==<br />
In 2016, she was portrayed in the first season of ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]''.<ref name="hicks20161129">{{Cite magazine |last = Hicks |first = India |author-link = India Hicks |date = 29 November 2016 |title = Watching The Crown with Lady Pamela Hicks, Queen Elizabeth's Lady-in-Waiting |url = http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/news/a8741/the-crown-india-hicks/ |magazine = Town and Country}}</ref> She is portrayed by [[Lily Travers]] in the 2017 film ''[[Viceroy's House (film)|Viceroy's House]]''.<br />
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==Published works==<br />
* {{Cite book |last = Mountbatten |first = Pamela |others = Foreword by India Hicks |title = India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power |publisher = Pavilion Books |year = 2007 |isbn = 978-1-86205-759-3 }}<br />
* {{cite book |last = Hicks |first = Pamela |author-mask = 3 |title = Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten |publisher = Weidenfeld & Nicolson |year = 2012 |isbn = 978-0297864820 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/daughterofempire0000hick }}<br />
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