We’re sitting in the drawing room of Lady Pamela Hicks’ home in Oxfordshire listening intently to Lady Pamela’s mesmerising stories. It’s just India and her mother Lady Pamela and Lisa the producer recording it and putting it all together. We’ve chosen to have no studio, no formalities just plenty of conversation and of course tea and cake.
This episode is all about Princess Alice, mother to Prince Philip and of course mother in law of Queen Elizabeth, a lady who lived a remarkable life in some turbulent and challenging periods of history. She was born in Windsor Castle, in the presence of her Great Grandmother Queen Victoria, and later married Prince Andrew of Greece. Her two aunts - Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Tsarina Alexandra - were both killed in the Russian Revolution and her daughter Cecile died in a plane crash. She was exiled twice and during During World War II and sheltered a family from the Nazis. Following a religious crisis she spent some years in a sanatorium in Switzerland and later established an order of nuns, living a life of extreme frugality dedicated to raising money for charity.
As Lord Mountbatten’s older sister she was of course Lady Pamela’s aunt and on this episode Lady Pamela tells us some of her memories of the remarkable chain-smoking, canasta playing Princess Alice.
16. The Royal Wedding; The Future Queen Elizabeth Marries
14. Lady Mountbatten: Part Two, The Transformation
13. Lady Mountbatten; Episode 1, Party-Loving Heiress, Wife and Mother
12. SPECIAL EPISODE; India Hicks in Conversation with Tina Brown
11. Viceroy's House Part 4; A Bittersweet Goodbye
10. Viceroy’s House Part 3; The Chaos After Partition, Gandhi and Nehru
9. Viceroy's House Part 2; The Build Towards Indian Partition
8. Viceroy’s House; 17 Year Old Lady Pamela’s First Months in India
7. SPECIAL EPISODE; The Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian and Support
6. The Commonwealth Tour, Life Aboard Britannia and Exploring the Empire
5. A Royal Love Story, a Commonwealth Tour and a Princess Becomes Queen
4. Distinguished Visitors; Royals in the Family, Movie Stars and the Maharajah Who Died at Lunch
3. The Mountbattens at War; Dispatched to New York with the Vanderbilts
2. Childhood as a Mountbatten; Lions, Coatimundis, Bears and Being Left in Budapest
1. Childhood as a Mountbatten; A Plethora of Kings
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