Patricia Grant

Patricia Grant
Information
Full name	Patricia Ann Hill-Grant
Born	December 23, 1955 (age 69)
Hometown	Lake Placid, New York, United States
Occupation	Assistant account executive • Teacher
Resides	Anna Maria, Florida, U.S.
Family	Lana Del Rey (daughter) Chuck Grant (daughter) Charlie Grant (son) Phoenix Pickens-Grant (granddaughter) Donald Hill † (father) Madeline McClean † (mother) Joan Hill (sister) Sally Hill (sister)
Relationships	Rob Grant (husband)

Patricia Ann "Patty" Hill-Grant is the birth mother of American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey. Before working as a teacher in upstate New York, Hill-Grant was an assistant account executive at an advertising firm in New York City.

Early life

Hill-Grant was born to Madeline Patricia McClean and Donald Paul Hill in Lake Placid, New York on December 23, 1955. Her father was a regional sales manager for the American Maize Company. She graduated from the now-closed Bradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts and Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

Career

From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Hill-Grant worked as an assistant account executive at Grey Group, a major advertising and marketing company known for its brand management. Upon leaving Manhattan to marry and settle down in upstate Lake Placid, New York, Hill-Grant became a teacher.

Personal life

Patricia married Robert England Grant Jr. on June 12, 1982, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Thurmont, Maryland. While still living in New York City, the couple would have their first daughter and eldest child Elizabeth, born on June 21, 1985. The family of three would then move to Lake Placid, New York to join Grant's family who had previously moved there. The pair would then have their second daughter Caroline (Chuck) on November 19, 1987, and their first son and youngest child Charles on March 3, 1993. Hill-Grant has one granddaughter, Phoenix, the daughter of Chuck and son-in-law Jason Pickens.

While they still have semi-permanent residency in upstate New York, Rob and Patty live primarily in Anna Maria, Florida.

Hill-Grant has largely stayed away from the spotlight of Del Rey's career, though in it's early stages, she could occasionally be seen in paparazzi photos or would be shown to accompany Del Rey on various tour dates.

Relationship with Lana Del Rey

In recent years, Del Rey has made it explicitly clear in her music that she purposefully lacks a relationship with Hill-Grant. The reasoning behind the pair's rocky, unstable relationship has never been publicly known, but inference suggests Del Rey's time being sent to boarding school at the age of 14 is a factor. Del Rey is known to exclude Hill-Grant when discussing her family, and has referred to her friend and AA sponsor, Candace Block, as the mother figure in her self-described "chosen family". On Mother's Day, 2020, Del Rey shared various posts, one indicating that she finds the day "challenging" alongside another which read:

"On Mother's Day I want to say- thank you to my best friends who let me mother them and in turn mother me. Thank you Lord for reminding me that we get to choose our family today and that we get to walk with our chosen sisters and take turns nurturing each other."

Song and poem references

• "A&W"
• "Aviation"
• "Bare Feet on Linoleum
• "Black Bathing Suit"
• "Fingertips"
• "LA Who Am I to Love You"
• "My Momma"
• "Old Money"
• "Raise Me Up (Mississippi South)"
• "Ride"
• "Wildflower Wildfire"