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1838 - Victoria is crowned, in Westminster Abbey, London, as queen of the United Kingdom.

1911 - George V and his wife Mary are crowned, at Westminster Abbey, London, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India.

Born 10 June 2021

“There’s a bit of every artist in their work.”

Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten was born in Barcelona on 19 April 1929, the younger daughter of Edwina Ashley, elder daughter of the 1st Baron Mount Temple, and the later-1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, affectionately known to the royal family as Uncle Dickie. Pamela was related to the royal family by her great-grandmother Princess Alice, and by her first cousin Philip Mountbatten's marriage to the future Elizabeth II, at whose wedding Pamela served as a bridesmaid. As lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth, Pamela was in Kenya when Elizabeth and Philip ascended in 1952 as Queen and Prince consort. She accompanied Her Majesty as lady-in-waiting on the 1953-4 royal tours of Jamaica, Panama, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Libya, Malta, and Gibraltar.

Lady Pamela wed on 13 January 1960 to interior decorator and designer David Nightingale Hicks. They had three children: Edwina (1961), Ashley (1963), and India (1967), and twelve grandchildren, with one adopted from the Bahamas. Pamela became a director at fund management and brokering firm H Securities Fund in 1991, also a former director of Cottesmore Farms. She was the author of two memoirs, the latter of which detailed her childhood, time in India whilst her father served there as the final Governor-General, and her time as lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth II. Lady Pamela Hicks died on 5 June 2026, having been the oldest living descendant of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert since Elizabeth II’s death. My sincere condolences are with her children, her grandchildren, the Mountbattens, the Royal Family and the peoples of the Commonwealth at this difficult time.

Lady Pamela Mountbatten Hicks

(19 April 1929 - 5 June 2026)

This is my third condolence statement for a relation to the Commonwealth realms' royal family.

1726 - Captain Maurice Suckling, instrumental in starting the illustrious naval career of his nephew Lord Nelson, is born in Barsham to the Reverend Maurice Suckling and Anne Turner.

1926 - Victor, Prince Napoléon dies in exile in Brussels, Belgium. His sole son, Prince Louis, succeeds him as head of the Imperial House of Bonaparte and as Bonapartist pretender to the defunct French throne.

1997 - Louis, Prince Napoléon, dies in Prangins, Switzerland, after exactly seventy-one years as head of the Imperial House of Bonaparte and Bonapartist pretender to the defunct French throne. His elder son, Prince Charles, succeeds him but has since been disputed as the titular Emperor of the French by Bonapartists who cite Louis' final testament, which named Charles' son Prince Jean-Christophe as heir.

1926 - Victor, Prince Napoléon, meurt en exil à Bruxelles, Belgique. Son fils unique, le Prince Louis, lui succède en tant que chef de la Maison impériale de Bonaparte et prétendant bonapartiste au trône français défunt.

1997 - Louis, Prince Napoléon, meurt à Prangins, Suisse, après exactement soixante et onze ans en tant que chef de la Maison impériale de Bonaparte et prétendant bonapartiste au trône français défunt. Son fils aîné, le Prince Charles, lui succède mais est depuis contesté en tant qu'Empereur titulaire des Français par les bonapartistes qui citent le testament final de Louis, qui nommait le fils de Charles, le Prince Jean-Christophe, comme héritier.