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Jun 4, 2024 · They have a three-year-old daughter, Zia, and a son called Wolf who's nearly two. The couple live in the New Forest because Edwina has always loved the sea. 'We were encouraged to find out own orbits,' she says of her sisters (Lady Tamara, 36, and Lady Viola, 23), because their brother Hugh, the 25-year-old Duke of Westminster, has inherited the bulk of the family estate.
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Edwina Mountbatten was a huge society catch. Born Edwina Ashley in 1900, she was the maternal granddaughter of the powerful magnate Ernest Cassel, a financier to royals and one of the most influential men in England. In other words, baby Edwina was rolling in dough…but all her money couldn’t stop the tragedy coming her way. Getty Images
When Edwina was just 11 years old, her consumptive mother Amalia passed, leaving the young girl without a feminine role model in her life. But that wasn’t the worst part.Her father Wilfred soon forgot all about her mother and remarried Molly Forbes-Sempill. Now, second wives get a bad rap…but Molly may have truly deserved the title of “evil stepmot...
Edwina’s father had desperately wanted a male heir, and he looked upon his daughter Edwina as a mere inconvenient mouth to feed. Well, Molly was happy to follow the party line—and then some. Called a “wicked woman,” it wasn’t long before Molly thrust poor Edwina into her own Cinderella-story, packing her off unceremoniously to boarding school. And ...
Edwina Mountbatten didn’t find her people at boarding school, she only found further misery. Her classmates teased her mercilessly about anything they could find, and the vivacious, spontaneous girl found the strict and somber routine of school life near suffocating. Within a few months, she was at her wit’s end—and desperate times called for despe...
Lonely and crestfallen at school, Edwina wrote a heart-wrenching letter.Through the tragedies of her formative years, her grandfather Ernest Cassel had remained her strongest supporter, and she sent him a message, begging him to "Please take me away, dear Grandpa, if you love me at all". Thing is, this pitiful letter had surprising consequences. Sh...
For most people, even a dramatic message like this one wouldn’t get their parents to pull them out of school. Then again, Edwina wasn’t most people. Her doting grandfather not only eventually let her drop her studies, he then hired the teenager to act as his party “hostess” at his palatial house instead. Yeah, Edwina was spoiled as heck—but this wa...
Within a few years, Edwina the “hostess” was partying like it was her job—which, well, it was. She took to it like a duck to water: Friends and admirers immediately noticed how bright, clever, and curious she was, and she fell in with some of the leading socialites of her day, including the wealthy and beautiful Gloria Vanderbilt. Indeed, it was Ed...
When Edwina was just 19 years old, she met Lord Louis Mountbatten, a relative of the current British Royal Family and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria in his own right. Translation: He was one heck of a catch. Lucky for Edwina, Louis only had eyes for her, and they struck up a whirlwind romance. Yet immense tragedy was just around the corner. Wik...
In the middle of her intense courtship with Louis Mountbatten, Edwina received the worst news of her life. Her grandfather Ernest Cassel had passed, simultaneously turning her into a wealthy heiress while leaving her overwhelmingly heartbroken. As if that weren’t enough, Louis’ father also passed around this time. Huh, maybe this was a bad omen…you...
Both Edwina and Louis didn’t heed these cosmic warnings signs and went full speed ahead with their love. Within months of meeting each other, they had decided to marry, and they weren’t about to go back on their (ill-advised) word. Edwina poured all her newfound money into planning their wedding—and what a wedding it was. Getty Images
Apr 8, 2017 · Edwina remained active in her service to India and also to the St John Ambulance Service. In 1949, Lady Mountbatten served as a governor of The Peckham Experiment. Even though the Mountbatten’s private life remained part of the “rich men’s gossip”, people and the media concentrated on their activistic work, especially Edwina’s service.
Jun 5, 2024 · Although Edwina is the second child of Gerald and Natalia Grosvenor, ancient laws meant that as the first son, Hugh inherited the bulk of the family's fortune over his older sisters. This is because of the centuries-old common law principle of primogeniture, by which the male heir inherits the title and entire estate.
Sep 7, 2021 · Cassel, whose wife had died within three years of marriage, was very close to his only child and her first-born daughter and provided one of the few anchors in Edwina’s rather rootless youth.
Sep 29, 2019 · Dickie Mountbatten was born in June 1900, the last godchild of Queen Victoria. His connections were impeccable; his two older sisters made royal marriages and the family regularly holidayed with the Russian Imperial Family. Edwina was equally well-connected; a descendant of Palmerston and the granddaughter of Edward VII’s banker.
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Mar 20, 2021 · In the1922 ”wedding of the year” Edwina the “most beautiful woman in the country” and “the richest heiress in the world” named for her godfather the future King Edward VII friend of her grandfather Ernest Cassel married the dashing impecunious Louis (Dickie) Mountbatten great grandson and last godchild of Queen Victoria, son of a German prince who had changed his name in 1917 from ...
