Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma was born Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley in 1901, the elder daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple (of the 1932 creation), who was a Conservative Member of Parliament.
Edwina Ashley was patrilineally descended from the Earls of Shaftesbury who had been ranked as baronets since 1622 and ennobled as barons in 1661. She was a great-granddaughter of the reformist 7th Earl of Shaftesbury through his younger son, The Hon. Evelyn Melbourne Ashley (1836–1907) and his wife, Sybella Farquhar (d. 1886), a granddaughter of the 6th Duke of Beaufort. From this cadet branch, the Ashley-Cooper peers would inherit the estates of Broadlands, and Classiebawn Castle in Sligo, Ireland.
On 8 July 1922  1922 lord Louis Mountbatten (until 1916 HSH Prince Louis of Battenberg), son of Prince Louis of Battenberg (Marquis of Milford Haven) and Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt, married Edwina Ashley, daughter of the future 1st Baron of Mount Temple and granddaughter of Sir Ernest Cassel. The couple married at St Margaret's, Westminster, London.
 The wedding was attended by more than 8,000 people, notably many members of the royal family, including Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, David the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) and Prince Philip, and dubbed "wedding of the year". The reception was held in Brook House after which the couple rode a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost to the bride's family's country house