The King’s goddaughter, India Hicks, has shared photos of herself wearing her mourning attire with fans on Instagram, following the Queen’s state funeral on Monday.
Hicks, 55, shared two images with her 345,000 followers on Instagram, including one with her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, who also attended the service at Westminster Abbey yesterday.
In an emotional post, Hicks, who was a bridesmaid at the king’s wedding to Princess Diana in 1981, said it had been a “privilege” to attend the service.
In the photos, Hicks is seen wearing a form-fitting black dress with an ornate pattern, paired with a striking slanting headdress with oversized floral decoration; The socialite and mother of five also wore knee-high black suede boots for the historic occasion.
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King Charles’s goddaughter, India Hicks, 55, accompanied her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, 93, a lady-in-waiting to the queen, to Westminster Abbey yesterday, posing for photos in her mourning attire.
In the photos, Hicks is seen wearing a form-fitting black dress with an ornate pattern, paired with a striking slanted headpiece with oversized floral decoration.
Lady Pamela Hicks, a cousin of Prince Philip and daughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, looked directly into the camera for the photograph of her with her youngest daughter.
In an elegant pleated dress, with black patent leather loafers and a wide-brimmed hat, the aristocrat belied her 93 years. Both ladies wore brooches, with Lady Pamela sporting a diamond bow brooch, along with a five-strand pearl necklace.
Hicks captioned the photos on her social media account, saying: ‘What a privilege. To have watched the sun set over Westminster Abbey last night and returned today, with my mother, for the state funeral, followed by the burial service at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor.
India remained in the country during the mourning period and tied her hair in a low bun and opted for a black headdress for the service.
India, who shares sons Wesley, 24, Felix, 24, Amory, 22, Conrad, 18, and daughter Domino, 13, with her partner David Flint Wood, lives in the Bahamas but was in the UK last week to celebrate her first year. wedding anniversary when the queen passed away aged 96
India, 55, looked somber dressed in all black, including a long-sleeved black dress and knee-high Louboutin boots, as she walked alongside her wheelchair-bound mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, to Britain’s most historic church. Brittany.
King Charles’s goddaughter, India Hicks, shed a tear as she entered Westminster Abbey on Monday to bid the queen her final farewell.
India, who shares sons Wesley, 24, Felix, 24, Amory, 22, Conrad, 18, and daughter Domino, 13, with her partner David Flint Wood, lives in the Bahamas but was in the UK last week to celebrate her first year. wedding anniversary when the Queen passed away at the age of 96.
Lady Pamela’s father, Earl Mountbatten, was affectionately known as ‘Uncle Dickie’ by Prince Philip and the Queen, and was seen as a major influence in both royals’ early lives.
Through her father, she is a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which also makes her a distant cousin to the Queen.
India was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. She is pictured second from left at the wedding with the Queen and Diana.
Lady Pamela is the daughter of Earl Mountbatten, the brother of Prince Philip’s mother. She previously served as her Majesty’s lady-in-waiting. The pair have been lifelong friends, photographed throughout their lives.
Lady Pamela has previously shared information about the family life of the Windsors.
She recalled in a podcast interview last year how the Queen was always ‘patient’ and ‘kind’ to her mother-in-law, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who could be ‘very sharp and difficult’.
“I remember she was staying in Windsor and we were waiting to go to lunch,” Lady Pamela recalled. The groom had come to pick her up to lunch with the queen.
Lady Pamela Hicks was one of the bridesmaids at Prince Philip’s wedding to Princess Elizabeth in 1947.
“He was a new groom, a young man in his 20s, and he thought he should entertain Princess Alice and talk to her.
‘He imprudently asked, ‘And what have you been doing this morning, ma’am,’ to which Princess Alice replied, ‘And what has that got to do with you?’
Lady Pamela also explained that despite living under the same roof as her son, Princess Alice and Prince Philip led very separate lives.
“She was in her dressing gown, by choice, in the attic,” Lady Pamela said. While Prince Philip was very busy downstairs.
