Global Courant 2023-04-20 06:40:26
Lady Pamela Hicks, one of Queen Elizabeth II’s bridesmaids, has reacted after recently finding out she would not be left on the shortened guest list for King Charles III’s coronation next month.
“How very, very wise,” Pamela’s daughter India Hicks wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday about her mother’s reaction to the call from the king’s personal secretary.
India noted that her mother appreciated that the invitations were based on “meritocracy, not aristocracy”. She said Lady Pamela added: “I am going to follow with great interest the events of this new administration.”
India continued, “The king sent his great love and apologies, he offended many relatives and friends with the abbreviated list. My mother was not offended at all.” She said it was explained that while Queen Elizabeth II had 8,000 guests at her coronation in 1953, Charles wanted to scale it back, “to ease the burden on the state”.
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Lady Pamela Hicks said it was “very wise” not to be invited to King Charles’s coronation, according to her daughter. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
Lady Pamela is the daughter of Lord Mountbatten who was killed by the IRA in 1979 and a first cousin of Prince Philip. She served as a maid of honor at the wedding of Philip and the late Queen in 1947.
Lady Pamela Hicks and her daughter India Hicks attended Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral last year. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
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Lady Pamela and her daughter both attended the Queen’s funeral in September.
“What a privilege,” Hicks wrote on Instagram at the time with a photo of them both in black. “To have watched the sun set over Westminster Abbey last night and to return today, alongside my mother, for the state funeral, followed by the Committal Service at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. ‘Service in life, hope in death,’ said the Archbishop of Canterbury. God bless the Queen. Long live the King.”
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Hicks wrote of an anecdote her mother told her about when the Queen came to stay with her on a post, which marked the Queen’s death last year.
“When the Queen came to stay, my mother said, she always brought a box of chocolates for her hostess and a box of chocolates for herself,” Hicks wrote on Instagram in September. “During one such visit, she came to my mother with a small complaint about my mother’s mongoose named Neola. The Queen said she really did not mind Neola entering her room, she really did not mind that he helped herself with one of her chocolates, but she didn’t mind if he took a small bite!”
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In her Wednesday post, Hicks noted that it was her mother’s 94th birthday. She joked that she only got the call at her home from the king’s secretary after her daughter Domino accidentally hung up in the palace twice, complaining that they were getting “spam calls.”
British politicians, heads of state, monarchs from other countries and representatives of communities and charities, along with the royal family, are expected to form the guest list for the coronation service at Westminster Abbey on May 6.
The coronation of King Charles will take place on May 6. (Alastair Grant)
The coronation festivities will continue throughout the weekend and others, such as Sarah Ferguson, who also did not make it to Westminster Abbey, are expected to take part in other events.
Ferguson, the ex-wife of Charles’ brother Prince Andrew and the mother of Princess Beatrice and Eugenie, will attend the May 7 coronation concert at Windsor Castle as a VIP.
Sarah Ferguson has been invited to the coronation concert, but not the event itself. (Getty Images)
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Hicks did not reveal if her mother was planning to attend another event that weekend.
Prince Harry plans to attend the coronation without Meghan Markle. (Mark Cuthbert/British Press)
Senior royals including Prince William and Kate Middleton and their three children will be in attendance at the coronation. The King’s brother Prince Andrew is attending along with his sister Princess Anne and Prince Harry has confirmed he will attend, but Meghan Markle plans to stay home with their children.
