King Charles’s goddaughter has revealed her mother’s reaction to not being invited to the Coronation in May 2023.
India Hicks, the daughter of Lady Pamela Hicks, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, appeared on this week’s episode of The Royal Record podcast.
Svar Nanan-Sen, GB News’s Digital Royal Editor, asked Hicks about Lady Pamela’s reaction to not being invited to the King and Queen’s Coronation last year.
He asked: “You and your mother, you attended so many royal events, but one that she wasn’t invited to was King Charles’s Coronation. How did she feel about that?”
Hicks responded: “She thought it was a really sensible route that they were going, which was instead of filling those seats with old family relatives, that you fill them with people who have done extraordinary things for our country and who needed to be thanked and recognised and much more current.
“I think that that was, for my mother, a sign that this was going to be a new sovereignty.
“This was going to be a much more modern way of having a Royal Family in place.
“I think it sent the best possible message that things were going to be done differently and that this was going to be a more inclusive Royal Family.”
King Charles and Queen Camilla’s Coronation was held in May 2023
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Hicks is the granddaughter of the late Lord Louis Mountbatten, a close confidante to King Charles when he was the Prince of Wales.
Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA in 1979.
As a young child, Hicks acted as a bridesmaid at Charles’s wedding to Princess Diana in 1981.
She is also one of King Charles’s goddaughters.
India Hicks discussed the King’s Coronation on The Royal Record podcast
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Hicks went to boarding school in Scotland at Gordonstoun, from which she was expelled for having boys in her room.
She then backpacked across India.
Hicks moved to Boston, Massachusetts at age 18 to study photography, where she graduated in 1990.
In 2021, she married her longtime partner and the father of her five children, David Flint Wood.
