A very modern 90th for Lady P

THE QUEEN’S bridesmaid, Lady Pamela Hicks, daughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, received a very modern present for her 90th birthday. Her daughter, India, reveals she commissioned a portrait of her mother by Instagram artist Elke Mackus.

She explains: ‘Through the remarkable connections we all make on Instagram I met an artist who drew this for her — seated in a chair designed by my father [the late David Hicks], with the Rex Whistler mural of my mother’s childhood home, Broadlands, behind her.’

India adds the picture also features a ‘miniature ancestral portrait gallery that includes [near right, from bottom to top] her granddaughter Domino, myself, her sister, her mother Countess Mountbatten, her beloved grandmother Princess Victoria and her grandmother’s grandmother Queen Victoria’.