And then there's her ancestry. Hicks' mother was Edwina Mountbatten, who, according to the book "Lady Pamela" (via the Daily Mail), was a parent so remarkably inattentive she once accidentally ...

Soon, he was introduced to Lady Pamela's parents - the Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Edwina, Countess Mountbatten. On November 2, 1959, their engagement was announced in The Times and Ms Hicks ...

One summer, when Pamela was eight, Edwina Mountbatten left her daughters at ... Pamela was delighted to give up her position of lady-in-waiting as 'she would not need to attend an Opening of ...