Mountbatten family's close ties to the royal family Phoebe and Freddy's father, Philip, is the son of Patricia Knatchbull and John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne. Lord and Lady Mountbatten had ...

The year 1923 saw the marital calendar was packed with princely nuptials. The springtime wedding of Albert, Duke of York had ...

Mountbatten, Patricia's son Nicholas and her ... which ooze the glamour and style of an age that has now vanished. Lady Pamela Hicks is, as her daughter says, ­'perhaps the last of her kind'.

But the life of Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor has been normal ever since the day she was born — the first royal ever to come into the world in an NHS hospital. Prince Edward was away on a ...