Lady Pamela: My Mother's Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks

For years, designer India Hicks has been sharing anecdotes about the life of her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, ‘Lady P’. Daughter of the first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India, Lady Pamela was first cousin to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and served as Maid of Honour and Lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, before marrying interior designer David Hicks.

This visual biography chronicles Lady Pamela's life through a variety of archival documents, including letters from the Queen, images of the houses and gardens where she grew up and made her home, details of her work during Indian independence, her marriage to David Hicks and the houses he designed for them, and the assassination of her father in Ireland.