Lady Pamela Hicks is the daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and the great great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria – making Pamela the cousin of Prince Philip and second to the Queen.

Lady Pamela is a widow to interior designer David Nightingale Hicks who died in 1998.

The couple were married for several years and had three children together, Edwina Victoria Hicks, Ashley Louis David Hicks and India Amanda Caroline Hicks.

At the age of just 13, India was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her godfather, Prince Charles, to Lady Diana Spencer.

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