A lady-in-waiting has backed the Royal Family without roles for Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Sophie and Prince Harry.
India Hicks, King Charles’s goddaughter, has spoken out about the views of her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, who was Queen Elizabeth II’s lady-in-waiting.
The British designer claimed that Lady Pamela, 95, is a strong proponent of a modernised monarchy.
Hicks said: “She thinks that it is modernising in a way that it should, and she absolutely believes in the thinning down of the Royal Family and making it this core hard-working foursome.”
The 57-year-old was referring to King Charles III, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales as the “hard-working foursome”.
In so doing, Hicks omitted Princess Anne, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and the Duke of Sussex.
In actuality, the Princess Royal, 74, is the hardest-working member of the Royal Family.
She beat King Charles as the hardest-working royal for 2023, carrying out a massive 457 engagements.
Queen Camilla, King Charles and Prince William and Kate have been described as a ‘core hard working foursome’
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The Princess Royal completed 32 more engagements than her older brother, who only completed 425.
Meanwhile, Prince Edward, 60, came in third place behind his two older siblings with a whopping 297 engagements.
Prince William and Princess Kate, on the other hand, only completed 172 and 128 engagements respectively.
In 2024, the Princess of Wales stepped back from public life as she was undergoing chemotherapy.
Lady Pamela Hicks accompanied by India Hicks at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral
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Prince Harry, 40, stepped back from royal life in 2020 to move to California with his wife, Meghan Markle.
Hicks also said that her mother was in favour of freshening things up when it came to the term “lady-in-waiting”.
She continued to tell Marie Claire: “When Camilla changed the name from lady-in-waiting to ‘companion,’ I immediately said to my mum and asked, ‘What do you think?’ and she said, ‘Perfect, it makes such sense.’”
