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Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (née Ashley; 28 November 1901 – 21 February 1960), [2] was an English heiress, socialite, relief worker and the last vicereine of India as the wife of (the then) Rear Admiral The 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.
Encouraged by Edwina Mountbatten, he moved to England and opened at the Café de Paris in London on 19 January 1927 as part of a double act with his friend, the black tenor Opal Cooper. [5] The two men made a record together ("Moonlight on the Ganges" and "Because I Love You") [ 6 ] and they also appeared in variety at the Holborn Empire. [ 7 ]
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Nadejda Mikhailovna Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (née Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby, until 1917 Princess George of Battenberg; 28 March 1896 – 22 January 1963), was a member of the Russian imperial family who married a German prince but became a British subject and aristocrat.
Lord Louis considered divorcing Edwina, but due to his personal admiration for Phillips and his own affair with Yola Letellier, did not proceed. [2] [3] Edwina's sister-in-law, The Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the aunt of Bunnie's future wife, Georgina "Gina" Wernher, elder daughter of Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt, and Countess Anastasia de ...
Countess Mountbatten of Burma is a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom used for a female holder of the Earldom Mountbatten of Burma, or as a courtesy title for the wife of the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. The family seat for the position is at Newhouse Manor, near Ashford, Kent. Persons who have held this title have included:
The position had previously been filled by the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. She was inaugurated on 2 March 2011. [5] [6] Following the death of her daughter, she founded Leonora Children's Cancer Fund which in 2010 merged with The Edwina Mountbatten Trust, founded in memory of Leonora's great-grandmother. The merged charities were renamed The ...
She was the elder daughter of Admiral of the Fleet the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and of heiress Edwina Ashley (a patrilineal descendant of the earls of Shaftesbury, first ennobled in 1661). She was the elder sister of Lady Pamela Hicks , the first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , and the last surviving baptismal sponsor to her ...