Lady Pamela Hicks and Family

He was yummy.

The Mountbatten daughters remind me of Patty and Selma from The Simpsons

Terribly well spoken white, privileged aristocratic Lady, who perpetuates a Class system which undermines the possibly of the Country becoming a true egalitarian society. I have no doubt she is charming and well mannered, but not someone who is fascinating due to an accident of birth.

Louis, her father, was indeed very, very good looking.

Here's Louis Mountbatten with The Prince of Wales (aka Edward the VII, aka The Duke of Windsor) in a makeshift canvas swimming pool while on board some ship during one of their tours, where rumor has it that they had an affair.

And here's an interesting piece about them.

a was a real bitch who would rub her husband's nose in her affairs.

Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten was also a jerk. He was obsessed with dynasty-making, and arranged that his nephew Philip would be available so that Elizabeth, who was years younger, would fall in love with him as a teenager. He also kept trying to manipulate Charles into marrying a girl of his choosing, and when he died, Charles married Diana almost entirely because he thought she fit his adored Uncle Dickie's stipulated requirements (i.e. young, virginal, pretty, aristocratic, and demure).

Yes, Louis was obsessed with status and power, and more than anything else, of creating a lasting legacy of status/power for his family beyond his lifetime. Can you imagine if he'd had a son? He would've been maniacal about it.

Why do we need to discuss her OP? What has she done really besides being rich or being accidentally born to a couple of privileged breeders?

I read somewhere that when Louis and Eddy vacationed in Germany after the war, they’d use Prinz und Prinzessin Von Battenburg, their rightful titles. No matter that George V made the family renounce them, the Kaiser never ratified that and in Germany it’s perfectly ok to use former princely titles as surnames.

That doesn't surprise me one bit, R10