The Battenberg - Mountbattens

[eya]

India Hicks on her Instagram:

"Lots of questions asking if my mother still has the dress she wore as a bridesmaid to the Queen. She does. See it here on the table in front of us. Next to the one I wore to Charles and Diana’s wedding."

https://www.instagram.com/p/CH7uXhQHeht/

 

[AC21091968]

Wonderful photos of mother and daughter and the bridesmaid dresses!

 

[An Ard Ri]

Wonderful photos of mother and daughter and the bridesmaid dresses!

India and her mother Lady Pamela Hicks look very alike.

 

[eya]

India Hicks yesterday on her Instagram:


"Today I should be David’s wife. Yesterday we were meant to get married.
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Way back in early September we set the date for our tiny wedding. We sent out invitations, designed dresses, and debated vows (to obey or not to obey?)
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But as the weeks past the romance did slightly slip away. I think the crunch came when our priest told us we could not have hymns that might be humable - humable hymns are not Covid protocol.
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And so we will wait a little while longer, which is OK because we’ve already waited 25 years."


https://www.instagram.com/p/CIdyKVfn8td/

 

[Lady Daly]

India Hicks yesterday on her Instagram:


"Today I should be David’s wife. Yesterday we were meant to get married.
.
Way back in early September we set the date for our tiny wedding. We sent out invitations, designed dresses, and debated vows (to obey or not to obey?)
.
But as the weeks past the romance did slightly slip away. I think the crunch came when our priest told us we could not have hymns that might be humable - humable hymns are not Covid protocol.
.
And so we will wait a little while longer, which is OK because we’ve already waited 25 years."


https://www.instagram.com/p/CIdyKVfn8td/

Still cold feet after 25 years but obviously their relationship has worked for this long, why fix it if it isn't broken. Perhaps the wedding will happen post covid, when they can have a good sized church wedding and not only hum but actually sing.

 

[AC21091968]

Maddison May Modupe-Ojo (great-granddaughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and granddaughter of Lady Pamela Hicks) did an interview with Tatler, which will be feature in the January Issue.

Lord Mountbatten’s great-granddaughter opens up in the January issue
Maddison May Modupe-Ojo steps into the limelight armed with the wisdom – and wardrobe – of her grandmother Lady Pamela Hicks
https://www.tatler.com/article/maddison-may-modupe-ojo-interview-granddaughter-lady-pamela-hick

 

[Lady Daly]

Maddison May Modupe-Ojo (great-granddaughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and granddaughter of Lady Pamela Hicks) did an interview with Tatler, which will be feature in the January Issue.

Lord Mountbatten’s great-granddaughter opens up in the January issue
Maddison May Modupe-Ojo steps into the limelight armed with the wisdom – and wardrobe – of her grandmother Lady Pamela Hicks
https://www.tatler.com/article/maddison-may-modupe-ojo-interview-granddaughter-lady-pamela-hick

I had forgotten India Hicks has an older sister Edwina Hicks Bruddenell, the mother of Maddison, featured in Tatler. I've always considered their mother, Lady Pamela Mountbatten now 91 and her husband David Hicks (deceased) quite avant garde as well are their three children. Now, it appears grandaughter Maddison is a "chip off the old block".

 

[AC21091968]

Lady Pamela Hicks has received the COVID-19 vaccine, according to India Hick's instagram post

@indiahicksstyle Verified
Today my mother received the vaccine, from her local doctor, in the local village, all via the NHS.
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I asked her if I could post this image, because it gives me a sense of hope. She absolutely agreed. We all need a slither of hope right now, most especially for everyone tightly locked down again in England.
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As my mother often quotes ‘Face the sun and the shadows will fall behind you’
8h​

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJb0yGonvuz/

 

[Biri]

New great-grandson for Lady Pamela Hicks!

Maddison Brudenell (b.16 May 1994) [daughter of Edwina Hicks (b.1961) {herself daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten (b.1929) & her late husband David Hicks (1929-1998)} & her husband Jeremy Brudenell (b.1960)] & her husband Olaoluwa Olamide Modupe-Ojo (b.1991) had their third child, a son, on 18 December.

A brother for Daphne Ogoluwa (26-11-2016) & Phoebe Abidemi (15-12-2018).

Sources: https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blog...ewest-qvd.html
Descendants of Princess Julie von Battenberg
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI-osLtBfQI/

 

[AC21091968]

Maddison Brudenell (b.16 May 1994) [daughter of Edwina Hicks (b.1961) {herself daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten (b.1929) & her late husband David Hicks (1929-1998)} & her husband Jeremy Brudenell (b.1960)] & her husband Olaoluwa Olamide Modupe-Ojo (b.1991) had their third child, a son, on 18 December.

A brother for Daphne Ogoluwa (26-11-2016) & Phoebe Abidemi (15-12-2018).

Sources: https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blog...ewest-qvd.html
Descendants of Princess Julie von Battenberg
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI-osLtBfQI/

Congratulation to Maddison & Olaoluwa Olamide Modupe-Ojo, parents for the third time!!! The giraffe, zebra and dinosaur on the baby's clothes look adorable. ?

 

[An Ard Ri]

Property from the Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in London on March 24th 2021.

The 350 items will include Jewellery, Furniture, Paintings, Sculpture, Chinese Works of Art, Silver, Ceramics & Objets d’Art.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc...-late-countess-mountbatten-of-burma?locale=en

 

[CyrilVladisla]

The Royal Family attended the preview of the film about Louis Mountbatten in 1968.

 

[eya]

""The Family Collection Of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma" At Sotheby's - Photocall

Over 350 lots from Patricia and her husband John’s eighteenth-century home Newhouse, will be offered for sale with estimates ranging from 80,000GBP - 100,000GBP"

https://www.rexfeatures.com/livefee...ion_of_mountbatten_of_burma,_sothebys_london?

 

[Alison H]

For anyone who's got access to ITV, Pamela Hicks and India Hicks are doing a programme next Thursday (April 1st). It looks like it's just going to be them reminiscing about the Queen, Prince Philip, and Charles and Diana's wedding, but it might be interesting anyway!

 

[An Ard Ri]

For anyone who's got access to ITV, Pamela Hicks and India Hicks are doing a programme next Thursday (April 1st). It looks like it's just going to be them reminiscing about the Queen, Prince Philip, and Charles and Diana's wedding, but it might be interesting anyway!

My Years with the Queen-looks very interesting!

Lady Pamela Hicks and her daughter India.

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week13/my-years-queen

 

[Susan D]

I just looked at the Sotheby's website and I saw that the Mountbatten family is selling several family portraits. Is the family broke? It is stunning what they're selling.

 

[JR76]

I just looked at the Sotheby's website and I saw that the Mountbatten family is selling several family portraits. Is the family broke? It is stunning what they're selling.

The estate of Patricia Mountbatten, who died in 2017, are selling off part of her estate including paintings, furniture and jewellery. It's all done according to her and her husband's wishes and seems standard these days to pay off death duties and make it easier to split up the inheritance between the children.

 

[Prinsara]

They must have filmed it back around eya's post in #422.

Anything with Lady P is good times.

She's screamingly funny when she turns it back on India about getting into trouble at Gordonstoun.

There's a Victoria Milford Haven sighting in a great coat.

She's got a marvelous house.

There's a mongoose story...
There's a Queen Mary story...

It's basically worth watching/listening to, like all Lady Pamela stories. I can't imagine there are any more episodes planned, but if you want more I recommend their podcast.

 

[An Ard Ri]

Anything with Lady P is good times.

She's screamingly funny when she turns it back on India about getting into trouble at Gordonstoun.

I couldn't agree more and such an enjoyable insight.

 

[Prinsara]

In either the podcast or her memoir, or both, she talks about how serving as one of her father's confidants meant that naturally he would do all the talking and she would listen. Between that and her own inclination for writing, Pamela seems to have become a fantastic raconteur somewhere over the past 75 years or so.

It's almost funny how she talks about HM being so self-effacing, which is well-known, but then I think she was the only person to be both a bridesmaid at the wedding and an attendant at the Coronation, let alone with her on the accession tour in-between. Pretty remarkable.

 

[Lady Daly]

"My Years with the Queen” ITV program with Pamela and India Hicks is thoroughly delightful. Very entertaining!

 

[AC21091968]

Episode 1

Thank you eya for sharing the youtube video for the full episode!

I enjoyed watching Lady Pamela Hicks and India Hicks having conservations with each others recollecting family memories. Love the previously unseen footages and photos, as well as some sections of Lady Pamela's diary

I do recommend watching this episode.

 

[sm1939]

Brilliant thank you .

 

[Durham]

It was a good programme.

She & her children were lucky not to have been on the boat at Classiebawn.

 

[Biri]

the engagement was announced between Kelly Knatchbull (b.30 March 1988) [daughter of Michael John Knatchbull (b.1950) (who is a first cousin once removed of the late Duke of Edinburgh) & his first wife Melissa, nee Owen (b.1960)] & Alexander Cooke (b.1984) [son of Stephen Cooke & his wife Dianne] on 19 June.
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Sources: Descendants of Princess Julie von Battenberg
https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2021/06/kelly-knatchbull-to-wed-alexander-cooke.html

 

[Biri]

the engagement was announced between Kelly Knatchbull (b.30 March 1988) [daughter of Michael John Knatchbull (b.1950) (who is a first cousin once removed of the late Duke of Edinburgh) & his first wife Melissa, nee Owen (b.1960)] & Alexander Cooke (b.1984) [son of Stephen Cooke & his wife Dianne] on 19 June.
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Sources: Descendants of Princess Julie von Battenberg
https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2021/06/kelly-knatchbull-to-wed-alexander-cooke.html

And her first cousin Nicholas Knatchbull, Baron Brabourne (b.15 May 1981) [son of Sir Norton Knatchbull, Earl Mountbatten of Burma (b.1947) & his wife Penelope, nee Eastwood (b.1953)] married his longtime fiancee Ambre Pouzet (b.24 July 1984) in Broadlands, Romsey (Hamphire, England) on 20 May.

Source: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2021/07/lord-brabourne-marries-ambre-pouzet.html

 

[An Ard Ri]

The recent auction of the late Countess Mountbatten possessions raised £5.6 million.

https://www.tatler.com/gallery/sothebys-2nd-countess-mountbatten-of-burma-property-auction

 

[CyrilVladisla]

And her first cousin Nicholas Knatchbull, Baron Brabourne (b.15 May 1981) [son of Sir Norton Knatchbull, Earl Mountbatten of Burma (b.1947) & his wife Penelope, nee Eastwood (b.1953)] married his longtime fiancee Ambre Pouzet (b.24 July 1984) in Broadlands, Romsey (Hamphire, England) on 20 May.

Source: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2021/07/lord-brabourne-marries-ambre-pouzet.html

The Wedding of Nicholas Knatchbull and Ambre Pouzet

 

[iceflower]

Lady Tatiana Mountbatten attended the Fitzdares x Gentleman's Journal summer party at Goodwood Racecourse on July 31:


** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 **

 

[eya]

India Hicks finally married next week!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTaGRFBNrfB/