{"id":464355,"date":"2026-06-06T18:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464355\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:49:21","slug":"inside-the-wedding-of-lady-pamela-hicks-from-her-princess-bridesmaid-to-her-heirloom-tiara-and-the-snowstorm-that-threatened-to-ruin-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464355\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the wedding of Lady Pamela Hicks: from her princess bridesmaid to her heirloom tiara \u2013 and the snowstorm that threatened to ruin it all"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bride, now Lady Pamela Hicks<\/a>, wore a white satin gown by Worth, which featured white fur as a nod to the winter wedding. Atop her head was the Mountbatten Pearl and Diamond tiara, loaned to her by her mother for the occasion. The provenance of the Belle Epoque style<\/a> piece is unknown, but The Royal Watcher surmises that it must have originated around 1901, as a wedding gift for Countess Mountbatten\u2019s own mother, Amalia Mary Maud Cassel, when she married Wilfried Ashley.<\/p>\n

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Lady Pamela wore a gown by Worth and a family heirloom tiara<\/p>\n

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Lady Pamela wore the tiara for some of the nation\u2019s most historic moments, including the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the following Commonwealth tour, which she recalled being a tiring experience, especially \u2018donning evening dress and tiara at 10 in the morning.\u2019<\/p>\n

And it took pride of place on her wedding day, too, when Lady Pamela Hicks was accompanied by a host of royals<\/a> \u2013 though her friend, Queen Elizabeth II, could not attend, as she was heavily pregnant with Prince Andrew<\/a> at the time. Queen Louise of Sweden and Prince Philip joined the congregation, as did the Queen<\/a> Mother (who wore a brooch belonging to Queen Victoria<\/a>), Princess Alice, Princess Marina, Princess Alexandra of Kent<\/a>, Princess Sophie of Greece and Hanover, and Penelope Knatchbull. Alongside them were a young Prince Charles and Princess Anne<\/a>, then aged just 11 and 10 respectively.<\/p>\n

The newlyweds would go on to welcome three children \u2013 Edwina, a goddaughter of Queen Elizabeth; Ashley, a godson of Prince Philip, and India, a goddaughter of King Charles who served as a bridesmaid at his wedding to Princess Diana<\/a> \u2013 and raise their family at home in the Chilterns. The Hickses continued to serve a crucial role as pillars of support for the late Queen and the royal family for decades to come, and David and Lady Pamela spent 38 years together before David passed away on 29 March 1998. Lady Pamela Hicks died on 6 June 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bride, now Lady Pamela Hicks, wore a white satin gown by Worth, which featured white fur as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,337,111,139,69,201543,16196,160],"class_list":["post-464355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-features","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paywall-sample-for-0-days","tag-royals","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}