[1] Born in London, she is the only daughter of Reginald Wray Frank Eastwood (1912–1980), a butcher who became the founder of Angus Steakhouse,[2] and Marian Elizabeth (1926–2020), née Hood.
[3] In 2010, she succeeded her husband in the honorary position of High Steward of Romsey after he left the family to pursue an "amorous adventure" with fashion designer Jeannie Nuttall in the Bahamas.
The merged charities were renamed The Edwina Mountbatten and Leonora Children's Foundation on 20 February 2014.
[7][8][9] At her daughter's wedding in 2016, King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, gave the bride away.
The wedding took place two months after the assassination of her husband's grandfather, the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, by an IRA bomb.