Following the death of one of Queen Elizabeth II's longest-standing companions, Lady Pamela Hicks, Anna Tyzak revisits her encounters with Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Haile Selassie through the stories captured by her daughter, India Hicks, and preserved in her mother's most private papers

Lady Pamela Hicks, the daughter of Lord Mountbatten of Burma who served as a lady-in-waiting and bridesmaid to Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 97.

Lady Pamela was a bridemaid at the late Queen’s wedding and later one of her ladies-in-waiting

Following the death of one of Queen Elizabeth II's longest-standing companions, Lady Pamela Hicks, Anna Tyzak revisits her encounters with Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Haile…

Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleLady Pamela Hicks, pictured in 2007 at…