Lady Pamela Hicks
According to India Hicks, the daughter of Lady Pamela Hicks, her mother, a first cousin of Prince Philip and a bridesmaid at his wedding to then Princess Elizabeth, have not been invited to the coronation.
"Someone keeps saying its Buckingham Palace calling” said my daughter Domino firmly hanging up the phone again. “Ah, it probably is Buckingham Palace” I said.
Since my mother’s hearing had become just a bit more unreliable, I had become her human hearing aid, most of her friends knew to call me if there was something important to be conveyed.
One of the King’s personal secretaires was passing on a message from the King. They explained that this coronation was to be very different to the Queen’s. 8,000 guests would be whittled down to 1,000 alleviating the burden on the state.
The King was sending his great love and apologies, he was offending many family and friends with the reduced list. My mother was not offended at all. “How very, very sensible” she said. Invitations based on meritocracy not aristocracy. “I am going to follow with great interest the events of this new reign.”
We have recently been looking through old photographs. Her astonishing memory recalled a very funny story about this photograph of my mother with young Princess Elizabeth. (Nip over to Substack for that. Link in my profile.)
Today my mother turns 94 years old, she must be one of the few remaining people with such a memory intact, about to live through a third coronation.
Happy Birthday to my darling Mum."
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