Photo: David Loftus
More than 40 years ago, she was a bridesmaid toPrincess Dianaas she wedPrince Charles. Now, India Hicks herself is married — and to her partner of 25 years, no less.
Hicks had postponed her wedding to former advertising executive David Flint Wood twice since she announced last November they would be getting hitched this year.
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The source adds, “The ceremony took place at the Oxfordshire chapel where India was christened and her father David is buried, so it was very emotional for her to finally marry at the family Church.”
Theentrepreneur, writer, modeland mother of five is the granddaughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was close to bothQueen Elizabethand her late husband,Prince Philip. She is a goddaughter ofPrince Charles.
India Hicks and at Charles and Diana’s wedding.OFF/AFP/Getty; inset: Dave M. Benett/Getty
The couple live in the Bahamas, where Hicks has been working for Global Empowerment Mission, which runs disaster relief throughout the Caribbean in addition to working as a style writer and running a homewares business.
She and Flint Wood first announced she was getting married via Instagram, writing, “Five children and twenty five years later! We quietly decided [to get married] a few months ago.”
The following month, she announced the wedding had to be postponed, writing, “We will wait a little while longer, which is OK because we’ve already waited 25 years.”
More recently, she revealed last weekend that she and Flint Wood would finally wed, and several of her Instragram Stories since then have outlined the plans for her big day.
India isn’t the only family member with royal bridesmaid duties in her roster — her mother Lady Pamela Hicks was a bridesmaid to the then-Princess Elizabeth and Philip in 1947. And whenPrince Philipdied in April, India captured some of the romance of that period for PEOPLE.
“When they married they were a star couple,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “But within that he was also able to carve out a sense of his own person. He was able to create a life for himself.”
She continued, “I love the idea of when they were standing on the palace balcony when they had got married and everybody in the crowd started singing ‘all the nice girls love a sailor.’ It is just so fantastic. It was like the most romantic film that had been created.”
Now she can treasure her own special memories from an intimate ceremony two and a half decades in the making.
source: people.com
