The late Queen’s lady-in-waiting used defiant words when speaking to her daughter after finding out Queen Elizabeth II was dying.
India Hicks, the granddaughter of the late Lord Mountbatten, appeared on this week’s episode of The Royal Record podcast, where she discussed attending the late monarch’s funeral in 2022.
Hicks attended the funeral alongside her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, who was a close confidante and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.
During the episode, Cameron Walker, GB News’s Royal Correspondent, asked Hicks: “They had a great relationship, your mother and the late Queen.
Queen’s lady-in-waiting’s defiant words to her daughter after finding out Queen Elizabeth II was dying
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“You and Lady Pamela attended her funeral back in 2022.
“Can you remember hearing the news of the sad passing of Queen Elizabeth II?”
Hicks responded: “Yes. I actually happened to be getting on a flight.
“I remember before the public news, we heard a mumbling that the Queen might have suffered a stroke.
India Hicks discussed attending the funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II
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“I called my mum the night before it was announced and I said, ‘It looks unlikely that she might survive this. Would you like me to come home and be with you?’
“And she said, ‘It’s the poor Queen who suffered the stroke. You must carry on.’
“Again, as always, my mum very much thinking of everybody else.”
Hicks also explained the “privilege” of being able to attend the late Queen’s funeral at Westminster Abbey.
Lady Pamela Hicks attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022
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She added: “But of course, then I had the very great privilege of accompanying my mother to both funerals, the one in London and the one at Windsor.
“It was particularly moving for me, obviously the extraordinary occasion, the beauty of it, the emotion of it – seeing our nation grieving for this extraordinary woman who has been our anchor for so many years.
“But for me, to see my mum really seeing a chapter close was very emotional.
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Lady Pamela Hicks accompanied by India Hicks at the funeral
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“I remember at Windsor, which felt much more intimate, we were right in the front, and as that coffin passed us by, my mother held onto my arm, because those 95-year-old hips were struggling.
“She held onto my arm, but she went down into the deepest of curses, and she stayed down with her head bowed until that coffin had moved all the way past us.
“And only then did she come up. And I thought, that is a chapter closing.”
