In recent years, she persuaded her mother to explore her extraordinary upbringing and childhood among London’s high society in a special series on her podcast, titled India Hicks.
The seven-part series, which began in 2019, offered a riot of family history, including snapshots of life with the late monarch and Duke of Edinburgh, as well as of Lady Pamela’s remarkable social circle, including details of a stay in New York with American “royalty” – the Vanderbilts – during the Second World War.
Ms Hicks told the Sunday Telegraph at the time that the podcast series had come about after she posted “snippets” of Lady Pamela to her 486,000 Instagram followers and realised a new generation had been captivated by her tales.
She said: “I’ve grown up listening to my mother’s extraordinary stories. It’s not just the life she has lived, but it’s her brilliance as a raconteur.
“There are very few people who have lived to see the things she has seen, and there is something about her timing and delivery of these stories that you can’t get from the pages of her autobiography.”
Lady Pamela wrote several autobiographical books, including My Years with the Queen, a 2022 memoir about their friendship, as well as Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten, published in 2012, and India Remembered, a personal account of her parents’ time in the country, released in 2007.
Ms Hicks has described her mother as “undyingly loyal” to the Royal family. In recent years, she has published many photographs of her mother on social media as she proudly documented her extraordinary life.
Last month, she joked that Lady Pamela’s secret to long life appeared to involve “chocolate biscuits at elevenses, the occasional day in bed with a hot dog, endless Charbonnel et Walker chocolates, making sure there is always Toblerone in the house, and being properly dressed – even for the pub”.
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