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Daughter of Empire : A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy’s House

Author: Lady Pamela Hicks, Pamela Hicks
SKU: 9781474606929

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A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy’s HousePamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain’s grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child, she learned to occupy her days lost in a book, riding or playing with the family’s animals (which included at different times a honey bear, chameleons, a bush baby, two wallabies, a lion, a mongoose and a coati mundi).

Her parents’ vast social circle included royalty, film stars, senior service officers, politicians and celebrities. Noel Coward invited Pamela to watch him filming; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. dropped in for tea and Churchill would call for ‘a word with Dickie’.

After the war, Pamela truly came of age in India, while her parents were the Last Viceroy and Vicereine. This introduction to the country would start a life-long love affair with the people and the place.

  • Classifications: Autobiography: general
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 272 pages

ISBN : 9781474606929

Published : 2 Mar 2017

Author : Lady Pamela Hicks, Pamela Hicks

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Orion Publishing Co

Size : 131 x 201 (mm)

Weight : 285g

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