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India Hicks, the goddaughter of King Charles, has revealed that it “still feels strange” to use the monarch’s new title.
The 55-year-old daughter of Lady Pamela Hicks, who was a bridesmaid at the king’s wedding to Princess Diana in 1981, made the comments in a recent Instagram after.
In the post, India also revealed that she would be taking a bike ride from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle in a bid to raise money for the monarch’s charity, The Prince’s Trust.
India shared a photo of herself with her bike, along with a friend she identified as Isabella, India wrote that she would join thousands of others for the ride, where she would be part of the Women Supporting Women team.
King Charles’ goddaughter India Hicks, 55, (pictured with a friend she identified as “Isabella”) revealed she would be taking a bike ride to raise money for Charles’ charity The Princes’ Trust
India Hicks (pictured here with her mother Lady Pamela Hicks) shared a photo of the couple wearing mourning clothes for the Queen’s funeral last week
In the post, shared yesterday, she said: “Tomorrow I’ll be cycling from Buckingham Place to Windsor Castle, along with several thousand other people, in the hope of raising awareness and funding to help the lives of young people who are frankly confronted with a ***** future.
King Charles (still feels strange to say that) founded the charity in 1976 with a few thousand pounds of his Navy severance pay to tackle the high youth unemployment rate, which he feared would marginalize young people.
“The Prince’s Trust has now helped over a million people, believing that every young person should have the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background or challenges they face.”
India went on to say that she’cycling as part of the Women Supporting Women team, founded at The Prince’s Trust in 2018 to specifically help young, underprivileged women transform their lives’.
She continued: “I’ve been training for many hours on the bike for this lately, but after my last disaster, when I was training so hard and my back gave out, I’ve been careful.”
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 give her a year to celebrate wedding anniversary when the queen died at the age of 96. Here she is pictured at Her Majesty’s funeral in London
The 55-year-old was photographed shedding a tear as she walked into Westminster Abbey last week to bid her final farewell to the Queen.
Concluding her message, India said the ride was ‘off’only possible because of two extraordinary women,” whom she called Isabella and Claire and described their team as “Truly Women Supporting Women.”
The news follows her attendance at Her Majesty’s state funeral at Westminster Abbey last Monday.
After the service, she posted photos on Instagram of herself with her mother and said it was a “privilege” to attend the service to say goodbye to Her Majesty.
In photos posted to Instagram after the funeral, Hicks is seen in a fitted black dress with an ornate pattern, paired with a striking canted headpiece with oversized floral decoration; the socialite and mother of five also wore black suede knee-high boots for the historic occasion.
India, 55, looked bleak in black, including a long-sleeved black dress and knee-high Louboutin boots, as she walked into Britain’s most historic church alongside her wheelchair-bound mother Lady Pamela Hicks
On social media, India described attending the Queen’s funeral as a ‘privilege’, after attending the event with her mother Lady Pamela Hicks
Lady Pamela Hicks, the nephew of Prince Philip and the daughter of Louis Mountbatten, Burma’s first Earl Mountbatten, looked straight into the camera for the photo of herself with her youngest daughter.
Dressed in a stylish pleated dress, with patent leather black loafers and a wide-brimmed hat, the aristocrat denied her for 93 years. Both ladies wore brooches, with Lady Pamela wearing a brooch with a diamond bow, next to a pearl necklace with five strands.
Hicks captioned the photos on her social media account, saying, “What a privilege. Watched the sun set over Westminster Abbey last night and return next to my mother today for the state funeral, followed by the ceremony at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.’
India was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. She is the second left pictured at the wedding with the Queen and Diana
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 give her a year to celebrate 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 hugely influential in the early lives of both royals.
Through her father, she is a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, making her also a distant cousin of the Queen.