Ai funeral of Prince Philip only thirty people will participate (due to Covid). Including the sixty-seven year old Penelope Romsey, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, formerly Lady Romsey and today Lady Brabourne. Ua woman who played a very important – but equally discreet – part in the life of the Duke of Edinburgh. Blonde, tall, lean, Penny was one dear friend and a close confidante of Filippo, frequentatrice assidua di Wood Farm, the chalet in Sandringham which since 2017, the year of “retirement”, had become the home of the husband of Elizabeth II.
Daughter of butcher Reginald Eastwood which became millionaire founding the chain Angus Steakhouse, Penny turned into Countess Mountbatten in 1979, when he married Norton Knatchbull, seventh Baron of Brabourne, grandson of Filippo and cousin of Carlo which in fact made from witness To marriage.
Between Penelope and the Duke of Edinburgh, despite the thirty-two years of age difference, there was immediate sympathy. To bring them even closer was a drama. In 1991, the woman lost her 5-year-old daughter to leukemia. Philip, sending her his passion for horses and racing, helped her overcome the pain. The two, over the years, have participated as a couple in numerous races of carriages pulled by cavalli. And for years Penny has been on the guest list at any private royal family event.
In these hours also Countess Mountbatten is mourning the death of Philip. But in private, as is his style. So much so that some British media have titled: “Penny Brabourne: the discreet pain of the second woman of the prince».
She will be there too at Filippo’s funeral. According to Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth had a hard time selecting the thirty participants allowed in the coronavirus era (in normal times it would have been about 800). The fact that Penny was included in the very small group shows how close the bond with Filippo was. Theirs was a true friendship, never “chat”. So much so that the countess has also been very attached to Her Majesty for decades.
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