Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Right Honourable
The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
CI GBE DCVO GCStJ
The Right Honourable The Countess Mountbatten of Burma CI GBE DCVO GCStJ
	Mountbatten in the uniform of the St John Ambulance Brigade
Viceregal-Consort of India
	In office; 21 February 1947 – 21 June 1948
Monarch	George VI
Governor-; General	The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma
Personal details
Born	Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley; 28 November 1901; London
Died	21 February 1960 (aged 58); Jesselton, Crown Colony of North Borneo
Resting place	Off the coast of Portsmouth
Spouse	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (m. 1922)
Children	Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma; Lady Pamela Hicks;
Parents	Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple; Amalia Cassel;

Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, CI, GBE, DCVO, GCStJ (née Ashley; 28 November 1901 – 21 February 1960), was an English heiress, socialite, relief worker and the last vicereine of India as the wife of (the then) Rear Admiral The 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.

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