Adult Life
Lady Pamela has been a Direector of H Securities Unlimited, a fund management and brokerage firm, since 1991. She is a former director of Cottesmore Farms.
In 2002, Lady Pamela sold off her late mother's tiara at Sotheby's.
In 2007, Lady Pamela published her memoirs of her days in Delhi when the Union Jack came down. She writes in the book India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power that, while her mother, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and Jawaharlal Nehru, the future Prime Minister of India, were deeply in love, "the relationship remained platonic".
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