Queen's surviving bridesmaid snubbed and not invited to King Charles's coronation
ok.co.ukThe Queen’s bridesmaid Lady Pamela Hicks has not been invited to King Charles's coronation, her daughter India Hicks has said.
In a post on Instagram, the designer and former fashion model revealed that Buckingham Palace had told her mother that she would not be invited to the coronation due to their decision to slim down the guest list.
She said that the Palace rang her mother to give her the news. "One of the King’s personal secretaries was passing on a message from the King," she wrote. "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." However, she said that her mother, who turned 94 on Wednesday, was unbothered by the news. "The King was sending his great love and apologies, he was offending many family and friends with the reduced list," India said. "My mother was not offended at all. 'How very, very sensible' she said.
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