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Countess Mountbatten died at her home in Mersham, Kent, aged 93. Her funeral service took place on 27 June 2017 at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, and was attended by the Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and other senior members of the royal family.
The Mountbatten family is a British family that originated as a branch of the German princely Battenberg family.The name was adopted by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor.
Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks (née Mountbatten; born 19 April 1929) is a 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.
Thousands of people turned out for the funeral procession, which began at Wellington Barracks, including representatives of the three Armies and military contingents from Burma, India, the United States, France and Canada. [28] His coffin was carried in a cavalry armor and it was also accompanied by 118 members of the Royal Navy.
During their honeymoon in California, the newlyweds starred in a silent home movie by Charlie Chaplin called Nice And Friendly, which was not shown in cinemas. [11] The Mountbattens had two daughters, Patricia (14 February 1924 – 13 June 2017) and Pamela (born 19 April 1929). [12]
Batten was born on February 11, 1927, to Frank Batten, a bank auditor, [5] and Dorothy Martin Batten, the daughter of a wealthy Norfolk family. [5] After the death of his father the following year, Batten and his mother moved in with his aunt and uncle, Fay and Samuel L. Slover. [5]
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Louise is described as a great lover and patriot of her new home country, and was often shocked by Swedish non-patriotic customs. [1] She was a supporter of the political system and democracy in the form it had developed in Sweden [ 1 ] and stated her opinion to her relatives that no other political system than the Swedish one had created such ...