Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, CBE, MSC, CD was a British peeress and the third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. She succeeded her father when he was assassinated in 1979. She was in the boat which was blown up by the IRA off the shores of Mullaghmore, County Sligo in August 1979, killing her 14 year-old son Nicholas.
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Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, CBE, MSC, CD was a British peeress and the third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. She succeeded her father when he was assassinated in 1979, as his peerages had been created with special remainder to his daughters and their heirs male. She was in the boat which was blown up by the IRA off the shores of Mullaghmore, County Sligo in August 1979, killing her 14 year-old son Nicholas; her father; her mother-in-law, the Dowager Baroness Brabourne; and a boat-boy from County Fermanagh. Despite her succeeding to an earldom in her own right, she preferred that the officers and men of her regiment address her as Lady Patricia.
In 1973 she was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Kent; she was also a serving magistrate and was involved with numerous service organisations including SOS Children’s Villages UK, of which she was a Patron. In June 2012 she unveiled a memorial to the work of the Combined Parties at Hayling Island in Hampshire. In early 1974 she began corresponding with the eldest son of the Queen and Prince Philip about a potential marriage. She became closely involved in consideration of a future consort for her first cousin, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.
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