Lady Pamela Hicks obituary (opens in new tab)

Witness of the partition of India as the daughter of Lord Mountbatten and bridesmaid to the future Queen Elizabeth IILady Pamela Hicks, who has died aged 97, was the great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria and her oldest surviving descendant. The link came through her father, , which made her additionally first cousin to , and she was also the great-niece of the last empress of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna.As a child Pamela was sufficiently aristocratic to be a playmate of Princess Elizab...