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, Lady Pamela and Lisa the producer who's recording it and putting it all together. We’ve chosen to have no studio, no formalities just conversation and plenty of tea and cake.
This episode is all about Lady Louis Mountbatten, one of the most intriguing and intelligent debutants of her day, mother to Lady Pamela and grandmother to India. Born Edwina Ashley she was the goddaughter of Edward VII and heiress to a vast fortune. Already very much in the public eye, her wedding to Louis Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, in 1922 cemented this powerful couple’s place in British society. In episode one of two, Lady Pamela explores her mother’s glamorous years of parties and travels, her life and loves, and the way in which the war years changed her from a party-loving socialite to the formidably powerful and intuitive woman she became.
16. The Royal Wedding; The Future Queen Elizabeth Marries
15. Princess Alice; The Queen's Extraordinary Mother in Law
14. Lady Mountbatten: Part Two, The Transformation
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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