My Years with the Queen

The Lady Pamela Carmen Louise HICKS (née MOUNTBATTEN) - was born on 19th April 1929 in the Ritz Hotel, Barcelona, Spain, the youngest daughter of Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon. Lord Louis Mountbatten, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, ADC(P), FRS (1900-1979) and The Hon. Dame Edwina Ashley, CI, GBE, DCVO (1901-1960). Pamela’s middle name of Carmen was to honour María del Carmen Saavedra y de Collado (1897-1967), the wife of Hernando Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 14th Duke of Peñaranda de Duero (1882-1936); and Louise to honour Mountbatten’s sister - The Lady Louise Mountbatten, RRC (formerly Princess Louise of Battenberg, who later became Queen of Sweden) (1889-1965)..