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Ebook About “Lady Pamela Hicks’s joyously entertaining new memoir, arguably the poshest book that ever has or will be written” (Newsweek), is a privileged glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the twentieth century’s leading figures.Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born in Madrid at the very end of the “Roaring Twenties.” Daughter of the glamorous heiress Edwina Ashley and Lord Louis Mountbatten, Pamela spent much of her early life with her sister, nannies, and servants—not to mention a menagerie of animals that included, at different times, a honey bear, chameleons, a bush baby, and a mongoose. Her parents’ vast social circle included royalty, film stars, celebrities, and politicians. Noel Coward invited Pamela to watch him film, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. dropped in for tea. However when war broke out Pamela and her sister were sent to New York to live with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, while the prime minister appointed her father to be the last Viceroy of India. Amid the turmoil, Pamela came of age, meeting the student leaders who had been released from jail, working in the canteen for Allied forces and in a clinic outside Delhi. She also developed a close bond with Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. “If you are addicted to Downton Abbey, chances are that you will relish Daughter of Empire, a British aristocrat’s memoir of her childhood and coming of age…She is also a keen observer of a way of life now vanished, except on PBS” (The Wall Street Journal). “Not many people remain who can tell stories like Lady Pamela Hicks” (Vanity Fair).Book Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten Review :
This is an engaging memoir of the early years of the life Pamela Mountbatten Hicks. The writing is engaging and moves quickly as the writer appears to be a plain spoken woman and she writes in that manner. Her family life as a young girl was conventionally unconventional. As the daughter of Lord Mountbatten and his beautiful and audacious wife Edwina, Pamela and her sister lived in a world of bold face names -- the British royal family, foreign royals, famous politicians etc. and when Hicks speaks of them it's never in a name dropping manner rather in the manner of someone who knew all of these people and interacted with them as part of normal everyday life. Her parents had an open marriage in which her mother's lovers became part of the "family" and from what Hicks says in the book were loved and loving in turn to her and her sister. Lord Mountbatten ultimately also had another partner and she too became part of the extended family. Hicks doesn't spend time on condemning or condoning the situation or whinging that this situation affected her or her sister adversely instead she appears to take it in stride as the "way it was" and just got on with her own life. It is quite obvious that she adored her father and he in turn adored her. Her affection for her mother appears to be less but at no point does she feel the need to bash her mother.I thought that the most fascinating part of the book covered the time she spent in India when in effect she was her father's hostess while he was the Viceroy. She does a very good job of presenting the agonizing her father went through as he tried to decide whether or not to accept the appointment which meant he'd have to leave the Royal Navy to which he was devoted and also have the tremendous task of moving India to independence from Great Britain while balancing the needs and wants of the various factions in Indian politics. Once her father accepts the assignment as his duty and the family moves to India, Hicks does a very fine job of describing her life in that exotic country so far removed from the life she knew in England. It's a tribute to Hicks as a person that she went to India with an open mind and found that she loved the country and the people she met. There is an appreciation of India that comes through in her writing which is quite surprising in that one would expect that a young woman of her background would not have been enthralled by the country based on other accounts people have written of being posted to colonial India. Instead Hicks is quite broken up when her father's viceroyship ends and they return to Great Britain and he resumes his career in the Royal Navy. Some of her most touching writing involves her interactions with and observations of Nehru and Gandhi as well as the servants in the household to whom she became close. Nehru and Gandhi become people and not just historical figures as a result.The book ends when she is in her thirties and is about to marry her husband, David Hicks. Hopefully Hicks will write the story of her marriage and the tragedy that struck the family when her father and one of her sons was killed by an IRA bomb planted on the family boat. On a happier note, I think the fact that she named her daughter India says volumes about her connection to and emotion for the country where she spent part of her youth. Extremely interesting memoir from a member of the Mountbatten (Battenburg) royal family of Britain, chosen by the book club I belong to. We all loved the book for different reasons. Here are mine:Before reading the book, I had cynical views regarding the intelligence and usefulness of members of the British royal family. I didn't think that they were bright, wise, deep or particularly literate, or that they acted with good social purpose.Reading this book blew those preconceptions out of the water... and to me, any book that changes my opinion with facts is a worthwhile book. In addition this book is a delightful and engaging read.Lady Pamela Hicks writes colourfully and beautifully about her life in England and in diplomatic service outside the UK - with incisive depth and humour, and surprising modesty and lack of class snobbery. My favourite part of the book deals with her diplomatic work in India in the late 1940s, at the time of partition and the creation of Pakistan.Read this book! 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