India Hicks

in the Beechwood, where I still walk, and I push my mother today in her wheelchair.

We'll go for walks through the Beechwood together.

Absolutely.

Yes.

And I think, isn't that a wonderful thing?

Instead of having it die out.

And also in this day and age, really,

Can it not be passed to a woman?

So I think now it makes great sense.

But my grandfather was, you know, he was very forward thinking.

In fact, you're asking about my mother.

One of the things my grandfather insisted for both of his daughters was that they kept diaries.

But my mother religiously wrote a diary.

So I did a book on her last year called Lady Pamela.

It actually began because Penguin Random House came to us and said we would love to do a book on your mother on her years at the Queen.

The Queen had just died.

And of course my mother went on two Commonwealth tours with the Queen.

The fascinating part of this story is that my mother was actually with the Queen the moment she became Queen.

She describes Princess Elizabeth going up that ladder at treetops in Kenya where they had the weekend off to look at the watering hole where the animals all come.

Back in England, the king unexpectedly, only aged 56, dies.