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Lady Pamela Hicks dead at age 97, British aristocrat

Lady Pamela Hicks, a British aristocrat and memoirist, died on June 5, 2026, at the age of 97.

Born Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten on April 19, 1929, in Barcelona, she was the younger daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. A member of the Mountbatten family by birth, she was also a first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Known in later life as Lady Pamela Hicks, she was one of the notable figures of Britain’s aristocratic and royal circles, and is also listed as a lady-in-waiting and memoirist.

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