Person Open DS/UK/13457 Knatchbull; Patricia Edwina Victoria (1924-2017); nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma CBE MSC CD JP DL; British aristocrat, charity worker Knatchbull Patricia Edwina Victoria 1924-2017 British aristocrat, charity worker Male

Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma CBE MSC CD JP DL (born 14 February 1924, died 23 June 2017) was a British peeress and former lady-in-waiting to her third cousin, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the elder daughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife, the heiress Edwina Ashley, a patrilineal descendant of the Earls of Shaftesbury, first ennobled in 1661. She was the elder sister of Lady Pamela Hicks, and first cousin to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Mountbatten succeeded her father when he was assassinated in 1979, as his peerages had been created by the Crown with special remainder to his daughters and their heirs male. This inheritance accorded her the title of countess and a seat in the House of Lords, where she remained until 1999, when the House of Lords Act 1999 removed most hereditary peers from the House. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 3/6/2014 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 94d867a5-a7aa-4c15-bce0-f5d77f1dbb65