Edwina Brudenell

Edwina Brudenell
Born	Edwina Victoria Louise Hicks 24 December 1961 Lambeth, London, England
Spouse(s)	Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell m. 1984 d. 2004
Children	Maddison May Brudenell Jordan Anne Brudenell Rowan Michael David Brudenell
Parent(s)	David Nightingale Hicks Lady Pamela Hicks

Edwina Victoria Louise Brudenell, née Hicks (born 24 December 1961 in Lambeth, London) is an aristocrat, model, and artist.

Edwina is the elder daughter of Lady Pamela Hicks and David Nightingale Hicks.

Through her maternal grandfather, the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, she is a second cousin to Charles, Prince of Wales, and 480th in line to succeed to the British throne.

She is named after her maternal grandmother, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. She is a god-daughter of Queen Elizabeth II.^[1]

Marriage and children

She married Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell (born 2 April 1960 London), son of John Michael Brudenell and Mollie Rothwell, on 24 March 1984 in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.^[2]

They have three children together :

• Maddison May Brudenell (born 16 May 1994),
• Jordan Anne Brudenell (born 1 July 1995), and
• Rowan Michael David Brudenell (born 21 February 2001).

They have since divorced.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Edwina Brudenell

16. John Hicks               8. Thomas Hicks                       17. Mary Gunman               4. Herbert Hicks                             18.               9. Emily Faith                       19.               2. David Nightingale Hicks                                   20. Thomas William Platten               10. Herbert Henry Platten                       21. Isabella Hales               5. Iris Elsie Platten                             22. George Painter               11. Kate Florence Painter                       23. Harriet Susan Messer               1. Edwina Brudenell                                         24. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine               12. Prince Louis of Battenberg                       25. Countess Julia Hauke               6. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma                             26. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse               13. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine                       27. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom               3. Lady Pamela Mountbatten                                   28. Evelyn Ashley               14. Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple                       29. Sybella Charlotte Farquhar               7. Edwina Ashley                             30. Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel               15. Amalia Mary Maud Cassel                       31. Annette Mary Maxwell

References

1. "'Nappy and glorious'". Daily Mail. 1 June 2012.
2. thePeerage.com http://www.thepeerage.com/p10426.htm#i104257

Hoey, Brian. 1994. Mountbatten: The Private Story. Sidgwick & Jackson.