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{{Infobox person
| name = Lady Iris Mountbatten
| image = Lady Iris Mountbatten.jpg
| caption = Lady Iris Mountbatten in 1952
| birth_name= Iris Victoria Beatrice Grace Mountbatten
| birth_date= {{birth date|1920|1|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = ], ]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1982|9|1|1920|1|13|df=y}}
| death_place = ], ]
| burial_place =
| occupation = Actress and model
| Robin Alexander Bryan by her second marriage
| parents = ] <br> ]
| spouse=Hamilton Joseph O'Malley (1941-1946; div.) <br> ] (1957; div.) <br> William Alexander Kemp (m. 1965)
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'''Lady Iris Victoria Beatrice Grace Mountbatten''' (13 January 1920 - 1 September 1982) was an English actress and model, and a member of the ]/] family.


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==Family and early life==
Lady Iris Mountbatten was born in ], ] on 13 January 1920, the only child of ], eldest of three sons and one daughter of ] and ]. Her Mother, the Marchioness of Carisbrooke ] (1938), ], ], was born ] (4 July 1890 – 16 July 1956) the only daughter of William Francis Henry Denison, 2nd ] and Lady Grace Adelaide Fane (3 October 1860 – 13 June 1933), a daughter of ].

Lord Carisbrooke's only sister ] was ] to ], thus making Lady Iris a first cousin of the ], grandfather of the present King, ]. Lady Carisbrooke had two brothers of whom only one, Hugo William Cecil Denison, 4th and last ], was married. He and his wife had one child, Iris's only maternal first cousin, Lady Zinnia Rosemary Denison (25 November 1937 – 13 July 1997) a keen equestrian and Master of the Whaddon Chase ] 1982-84. 'The Lady Zinnia Judd Challenge Trophy' named in memory of her, is presented in the Hunter Championship for the 'Best Hunter in Show' at the ].

On 29 November 1934, Iris was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousins, ] and ]. On 4 September 1935, at St. Oswald's Church, ], ], she was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her uncle Lord Londesborough to Marigold Rosemary Joyce Lubbock (15 May 1903 – 15 May 1976). On 12 May 1937 at their ], Iris was one of the six train bearers to ], wife and consort of her cousin King ].

She attended a variety of royal and aristocratic events in her youth, being a well known and much photographed ]. During ] she worked as a nurse's aide, later moving to the ]. She became an actress and model, appearing as a hostess for a live TV children's programme '']'' (], 1951). She also appeared endorsing ] and Warrens Mint Cocktail Gum. A goddaughter was Sharon McCluskey (daughter of Ellen Lehman McCluskey of the ]), later Sharon, Countess Sondes, second wife of ].

==Marriages==
Lady Iris was married three times. On 29 January 1941 Lady Iris received Royal License by King George VI to marry Captain (later Major) Hamilton Joseph Keyes O'Malley (after an engagement formally announced in '']'' 18 January 1941). They married in St. Mary's CE Parish in Balcombe in Sussex. Captain O'Malley was born 18 October 1910, in Farnborough House (Army Barracks) in Aldershot, ], ]. He was ancestor to Sir Samuel ], and a member of the British Royal Family and was an officer in the ] and RAF as a Glidder, he was in the Battle of Arnhem and received the Victoria Cross for his service as a Glidder in the Battle of Arnhem and retired in 1949 as a Major, educated ] and abroad. Commanding Officer ] attended the wedding (as best-man and Army comrade of Hamilton O'Malley). He was eldest son of ] Middleton Joseph O'Malley (later O'Malley-Keyes, son of Middleton Joseph Moore O'Malley, Justice of the Peace) and of Jane Byrnes O'Malley, formerly Malley of Ross House, ], of ], and of Castille Meretmont in ], France, wife of Middleton O'Malley aka Middleton O'Malley-Keyes (married 19 October 1909 in New York) only daughter of Businessman ] of New Haven, Connecticut. They divorced on 24 September 1946. Lady Iris formerly reverted to her maiden name of Mountbatten by ] dated 7 January 1949.

On 5 May 1957, at ], she married ] (9 August 1916, ], ] - 20 August 1972, ], ]), son of James R. Bryan and Laura A. Neely, an American jazz musician. They divorced months later in 1957.

On 11 December 1965, she married to William Alexander Kemp (10 July 1921 – 12 December 1991), son of Clarence Arthur Kemp and Helen Janet Ballantyne, a Canadian actor and announcer.

Lady Iris had a daughter by her first marriage: Lady Grania Mountbatten and a son by her second marriage: Robin Alexander Bryan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pendlebury|first=Richard|title=The West Country travel agent's wife 612th in line for the throne and the other unlikely Britons in our list of royal succession|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1032652/The-West-Country-travel-agents-wife-612th-line-throne-unlikely-Britons-list-royal-succession.html|newspaper=Daily Mail|date=7 July 2008}}</ref>

Lady Iris died on 1 September 1982 at ], ], ], ]. The cause of death was a brain tumour. Her ashes were brought to the ] for interment in the ] Chapel at ].

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==References==
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