Countess dies

LONDON: Countess Mountbatten of Burma, who survived the IRA bomb that killed her father and one of her sons, has died.

Patricia Mountbatten, 93, was the Duke of Edinburgh’s first cousin and Prince Charles’s godmother.

The countess suffered serious injuries in the 1979 blast. She needed 120 stitches to her face, which she wryly referred to in later years as “my IRA facelift”.