The ladies

How aristocratic can you get?

1946

Lady Pamela (the bride's sister), Princess Alexandra of Kent, Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, 

bridesmaids at the 1946 wedding of Patricia Mountbatten (daughter of Louis Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley: also a great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria) to John Knatchbull 

https://www.tatler.com/gallery/lady-pamela-hicks-facts-life

For information about the wedding, see 

https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com/1946-marriage-of-patricia-mountbatten

Lots of interesting information and photos in that article.

For Lady Patricia Battenberg Mountbatten Knatchbull, see 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Knatchbull%2C_2nd_Countess_Mountbatten_of_Burma

For information about Lady Patricia's family tree, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battenberg_family

Perhaps most remarkably, two of the ladies from the 1946 photo are still alive, as of May 2023, 77 years later! 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Pamela_Hicks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alexandra%2C_The_Honourable_Lady_Ogilvy

(Sounds like good genes to me.)

Princess Alexandra, aka Lady Ogilvy, is the beaming elderly lady who is on the right in the 2023 photograph.

That photo shows the Duke of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Anne and her husband Vice-Admiral Tim Laurence, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh – physically supporting 86-year-old Princess Alexandra – 

standing alongside the newly crowned King and Queen.

Lady Pamela was not invited to the 2023 coronation.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a43656856/lady-pamela-hicks-not-invited-king-charles-coronation/

It is fascinating to see Princess Alexandra both in 1946 (second from left) and 2023 (on the right).

How time flies :-)

Here's to the ladies!