![]() Dickie Mountbatten, born on 25 June 1900 at Frogmore House, was a great grandson and godson of Queen Victoria-his mother, Victoria, born in 1863, was the daughter of the Queen’s second daughter, Alice. The marriage had brought together two of the most glamorous figures of the period. ![]() ![]() Finally, at 5 p.m., they set off in the Rolls-Royce for the bride’s family home, Broadlands, to begin their married life together. Mountbatten’s gifts were of a more practical bent, reflecting his interests-a ship’s telescope, a copper hot-water jug and an aneroid barometer-and from the King, the award Knight Commander Victorian Order to add to his cherished Japanese Order of the Rising Sun and Grand Cross Order of the Nile. The list of presents took up a whole page of The Times and included, for Edwina, a pendant with the royal cipher in diamonds from Queen Alexandra, a brooch from the Aga Khan, a horse from the Maharajah of Jaipur, and the bracelet she had only recently returned to a previous suitor, Geordie, Duke of Sutherland. ![]() The wedding had attracted attention around the world with entire issues of magazines devoted to it, postcards and souvenirs produced to commemorate the occasion, and a 14-minute film for Pathé News. The Mountbattens on a 1954 picnic with their young cousins, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. ![]()
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