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Daughter of empire, my life as a Mountbatten, Lady Pamela Hicks

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Daughter of empire, my life as a Mountbatten, Lady Pamela Hicks

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eng

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General adult

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memoirsautobiography

Main title

Daughter of empire

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868150734

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Lady Pamela Hicks

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my life as a Mountbatten

Summary

Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kelly's pinup, and a grandmother who was not only a princess but could also argue the finer points of naval law. Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born at the very end of the Roaring Twenties. As the younger daughter of the glamorous heiress Edwina Ashley and Lord Louis Mountbatten, Pamela spent much of her early life with her sister, nannies, and servants-and a menagerie that included, at different times, a bear, two wallabies, a mongoose, and a lion. Her parents each had lovers who lived openly with the family. The house was always full of guests like Sir Winston Churchill..

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