Queen Elizabeth II’s bridesmaid, Lady Pamela Hicks, has died at the age of 97. The cousin of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh and the husband of the queen—who herself died in 2022 at the age of 96—was the daughter of Lord Mountbatten and a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. “My mother died peacefully today,” her daughter India Hicks wrote in a post on Instagram. “Whilst there is no tragedy in the death of a 97-year-old who has lived a full life, I know grief will be unavoidable, lurking around waiting for me, but today I am simply grateful that she was my mother. And through the prism of a crowded and remarkable past, she made incomparable company, carrying her memories lightly, and always with humor. My mother maintained right up to the end, the impeccable style, sharp mind and effortless charm that made her not only a cherished institution, but truly the last of her kind.” Lord Mountbatten was blown up on a fishing boat off the coast of Ireland by the Irish Republican Army.
