High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valerie Mewes better known by the name Vicki Martin, was an English model. Mewes gained fame as a result of her relationship with Jagaddipendra Narayan, the Maharajah of Cooch Behar and the manner of her untimely death. She was discovered' by Stephen Ward, one of the central figures in the Profumo Affair, and was best friends with Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom. Her sole film appearance was in the 1952 film, It Started in Paradise, in which the actress Kay Kendall also appeared, as did a young June Brown. The car in which Mewes died was being driven by the writer Terrence Robertson, author of 'The Golden Horseshoe'.