Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, commonly known as Lady Mountbatten, was an English heiress, socialite, and relief worker. As the wife of Rear Admiral Louis Mountbatt
Mountbatten in the uniform of the St John Ambulance Brigade
Edwina with her mother circa 1907
Edwina and Louis Mountbatten early in marriage
Edwina in her wedding dress, 1923, by Philip de László
Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks was a British aristocrat and relative of the British royal family. She was the younger daughter of Admiral of the Fleet the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and the heires
Lady Mountbatten
…She became a governor of the Peckham Experiment in 1949. Edwina and Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia (14 February 1924 – 13 June 2017) and Pamela (19 April 1929 – 5 June 2026). In 1944, the journalist Drew Pearson described Edwina as "one of the most beautiful women in England". Edwina and her…
Hicks, first row, second from left, at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1947.
Elizabeth II and Hicks arrive at a Women's Reception at Brisbane City Hall, 1954
Hicks with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in India (June 1948)