The Mountbattens

[Celia]

There's a photo of India's sons helping with hurricane relief.  The boy on the right looks SO MUCH like a Battenberg --the nose and the mouth.  He looks like Princess Sophie of Greece, Philip's youngest sister.  Incredible how these genes still come through.

[Carreen]

I loved Pamela Hicks' books, Daughter of Empire and India Remembered (written with her daughter India) - she has had an interesting life. And reading about her mother Edwina, I came to admire her, too, her generosity and will power.

ETA: I see only now that the books have been recommended before, sorry - but I second that recommendation! :-)

[CyrilSebastian]

Lord Louis Mountbatten danced with Princess Elizabeth during a fundraising dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London.   
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/3335560

[CyrilSebastian]

Edwina Ashley, pictured in India in 1921   
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/78965182

[KatyMc]

Pamela Hicks has also done a podcast with her daughter called
The India Hicks podcast. Its certainly shows how the upper classes treat their children differently!

https://podcasts.apple.co...475090347?i=1000445854167

[CyrilSebastian]

Lord Louis and Lady Edwina Mountbatten in Pakistan on July 2, 1947.   
http://www.alamy.com/stoc...mountbatten-36217569.html

[CyrilSebastian]

Lord Louis Mountbatten at Sandhurst in 1943   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Z1Dc9tZ4s

[CyrilSebastian]

Charlie Chaplin visited Lord Louis Mountbatten.     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnx494tNE9U

[CyrilSebastian]

Interview with Lady Pamela Mountbatten Hicks for the Swedish magazine Kungliga   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZFt0Wy4Zmc

[CyrilSebastian]

George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892-1938)   
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/3300215

[lilyrose]

George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892-1938)   
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/3300215

Always found it interesting how common and popular beards were for English royals born in the 19th century up to the generation that came in the late 1880s and early 1890s and on eschewed beards and went clean shaven. The Duke of Gloucester was the only one of his brothers to grow facial hair and his was only a mustache.

Even their continental peers--no beard for Olav of Norway, nor the 4 Swedish princes, Leopold and Charles of Belgium. Beards definitey went off trend after the first world war!

[shastadaisy]

This surprised me. Apparently it happened in January but only made the press now due to India’s guilty plea.

Socialite, 53, who was bridesmaid at Princess Diana's wedding admits stealing £680 Max Mara coat | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co....ng-680-Max-Mara-coat.html

[Carreen]

Very surprising. I wonder what India's oh so proper mother had to say about it. Her explanation sounds weird but believable. She really doesn't need to steal coats, she's so rich and may have really been absent-minded. Strange nevertheless.

I wish the court had made her return some of the Crabtree and Evelyn scents I loved, didn't she take over the brand at some point? or work with them? Can't really remember it but I always had a weak spot for their body mists. That would have been a great sentence, "bring back Savannah Gardens at a great price! and all is forgiven!"

[Elissa]

India Hicks announced her engagement to her longtime partner David Flint Wood.
They have been together for 25 years and have four children together.


https://peeragenews.blogs...-to-david-flint-wood.html

[Celia]

Why bother?  I bet they get divorced in three years...