Happy Birthday to Lady Pamela Hicks, who turns 91 today! The younger daughter of Lord Mountbatten, first cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen’s bridesmaid and lady-in-waiting, who married a influential interior designer, Lady Pamela has had a fascinating life, and after featuring the Hicks Tiara she reportedly still owns and the Mountbatten Tiara, which she doesn’t, today we are taking a look at another illustrious jewel no longer in her possession, the Mountbatten Art Deco Diamond Necklace-
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An Art Deco Diamond Platinum Chain is thought to be a contemporary redesign of an earlier piece from her late mother by the then Lady Louis Mountbatten, a wealthy Heiress, in the 1920s and 1930s. The longer Chain can be divided up into a shorter necklace and two bracelets.
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#otd 1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of King George VI and a hero of World War II, was appointed the last Viceroy of India, charged with overseeing the transition of British India to independence. Image: 1947 News Review Magazine, John Frost Newspapers @Mary_Evans pic.twitter.com/Bk4SowvEKX
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The Art Deco Diamond Necklace was worn by Lady Mountbatten most notably in a series of official portraits taken to mark her husband’s appointment as the last Viceroy of India, after which he was made Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and was often worn as a necklace with the Mountbatten Tiara and her Pearl and Diamond Tiara, though the bracelets were frequently worn . Lady Mountbatten died soon after her younger daughter’s wedding in 1960, and the necklace was inherited by Lady Pamela.
India Hicks has shared this wonderful picture of her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, and grandfather, Lord Mountbatten!
Lady Pamela wears the famous Mountbatten Tiara which she inherited from her mother and sold in 2002.
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India Hicks has shared this wonderful picture of her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, and grandfather, Lord Mountbatten!
Lady Pamela wears the famous Mountbatten Tiara which she inherited from her mother and sold in 2002.
More Here: https://t.co/zgH9VEBMRl pic.twitter.com/UTx19gCj0N
While she was no longer the Queen’s Lady-in-Waiting, Lady Pamela and her husband, influential interior designer David Hicks, had a very busy social life in the 1960s and 1970s, and she had wore the Art Deco Diamond Necklace and the Mountbatten Tiara for a plethora of events and portraits, until the Necklace was sold at Auction for $71 000 in 1978. The current whereabouts are unknown but Lady Pamela recently talked about the Necklace in an Instagram Live with her daughter, India.
Long story short, pompous kretins and bloodsuckers.
Why was the necklace sold?
It never ceases to amaze me that people who despise royalty and the aristocracy are always reading and giving their foul opinions on royalty blogs!
Lady Pamela is a lovely lady who, as far as I know, has enjoyed a very full and interesting life. She has witnessed many historical events and has met many historic personages. She’s no doubt retired from the kinds of events for which she would need such an excellent necklace and has decided to use the money she could get from it instead, a very sensible decision indeed. I congratulate her on achieving such a great age and wish her joy!