Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Knatchbull in 1941
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a Hereditary peer
27 August 1979 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Succeeded bySeat abolished[a]
Personal details
Born
Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten

(1924-02-14)14 February 1924
Westminster, London, England [1]
Died13 June 2017(2017-06-13) (aged 93)
Mersham, Kent, England
Spouse
(m. 1946; died 2005)
ChildrenNorton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Hon. Michael-John Knatchbull
Hon. Anthony Knatchbull
Lady Joanna Knatchbull
Lady Amanda Ellingworth
Hon. Philip Knatchbull
Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull
Hon. Timothy Knatchbull
Parent(s)Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Edwina Ashley
Military career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchRoyal Navy
Years of service1943–1945
RankThird officer
UnitWomen's Royal Naval Service
Battles / warsSecond World War

Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Baroness Brabourne, CBE, , MSC, CD (née Mountbatten; 14 February 1924 – 13 June 2017), was a British peeress and a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. She was the elder daughter of Admiral of the Fleet the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and of heiress Edwina Ashley (a patrilineal descendant of the earls of Shaftesbury, first ennobled in 1661). She was the elder sister of Lady Pamela Hicks, a first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the last surviving baptismal sponsor to King Charles III. She was a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Lady Mountbatten succeeded her father to the Earldom Mountbatten of Burma when he was assassinated in 1979, as his peerages had been created with special remainder to his daughters and their heirs male. This inheritance accorded her the title of countess and a seat in the House of Lords, where she remained until 1999, when the House of Lords Act 1999 removed most hereditary peers from the House.


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  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 20 September 2016.