Pigs will fly
Apr 28, 2021
3 minutes
Huon Mallalieu
SIR BERNARD BURKE of the Peerage and author of The Vicissitudes of Families would have found plenty of material in Sotheby’s sale of property from Patricia, the late Countess Mountbatten, who died in 2017. The daughter and heir of the 1st Earl, formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg, she was a strand in an intorted network of European royalty, a first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and descended from the great collector Sir Ernest Cassel, Edward VII’s banker.
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