The India Hicks Podcast
Episodes
17. Lady Pamela's Life Lessons
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From a life shaped by duty, service, family and faith, Lady Pamela shares the values that have guided her through extraordinary chapters of history: u...
16. The Royal Wedding; The Future Queen Elizabeth Marries
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When the future Queen Elizabeth was due to be married to Lady Pamela’s cousin, Philip, Lady Pamela was chosen as a bridesmaid. The wedding of the f...
15. Princess Alice; The Queen's Extraordinary Mother in Law
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re sitting in the drawing room of Lady Pamela Hicks’ home in Oxfordshire listening intently to Lady Pamela’s mesmerising stories. It’s just...
14. Lady Mountbatten: Part Two, The Transformation
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The concluding episode in our two part series about Lady Louis Mountbatten, one of the most intriguing and intelligent debutants of her day and of co...
13. Lady Mountbatten; Episode 1, Party-Loving Heiress, Wife and Mother
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re sitting in the drawing room of Lady Pamela Hicks’ home in Oxfordshire listening intently to Lady Pamela’s mesmerising stories. It’s just...
12. SPECIAL EPISODE; India Hicks in Conversation with Tina Brown
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
India is joined by a very special guest, Tina Brown, award-winning journalist, author, founder of the Women in the World summits and former editor-in...
11. Viceroy's House Part 4; A Bittersweet Goodbye
22 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re sitting in the drawing room of Lady Pamela Hicks’ home in Oxfordshire hearing Lady Pamela’s stories of living through some pretty extraord...
10. Viceroy’s House Part 3; The Chaos After Partition, Gandhi and Nehru
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re sitting in the drawing room of Lady Pamela Hicks’ home in Oxfordshire having a generally very informal conversation about Lady Pamela’s me...
9. Viceroy's House Part 2; The Build Towards Indian Partition
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the second Viceroy’s House episode Lady Pamela regales more of her incredible memories as a teenager living in India when her father, Lord Mountb...
8. Viceroy’s House; 17 Year Old Lady Pamela’s First Months in India
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When her father, Lord Mountbatten was given what he knew was the ‘impossible job’ as the last Viceroy of India, Lady Pamela, still only 17, along ...
7. SPECIAL EPISODE; The Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian and Support
28 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode of the India Hicks Podcast on which India tells us of the traumatic events surrounding the hurricane in the Bahamas, the pla...
6. The Commonwealth Tour, Life Aboard Britannia and Exploring the Empire
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Commonwealth Tour resumes, this time for six whole months, with Lady Pamela as Lady in Waiting to the new Queen. In this episode we hear all about...
5. A Royal Love Story, a Commonwealth Tour and a Princess Becomes Queen
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lady Pamela is first cousins with Prince Philip and also grew up very close to her, albeit more distant family, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and ...
4. Distinguished Visitors; Royals in the Family, Movie Stars and the Maharajah Who Died at Lunch
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Royals, ‘Subroyals’, Grand Dukes and Duchesses, Tsars and Tsarinas in the family, having the likes of Noel Coward, Grace Kelly, Douglas Fairb...
3. The Mountbattens at War; Dispatched to New York with the Vanderbilts
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like so many families the Mountbattens' lives were disrupted significantly in the Second World War with Lady's Pamela's father, Lord Mountbatten, miss...
2. Childhood as a Mountbatten; Lions, Coatimundis, Bears and Being Left in Budapest
03 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine growing up in a house with a lion, a bear, a mongoose and a coatimundi (yes we had to look it up too). We’re having tea and cake at home wit...
1. Childhood as a Mountbatten; A Plethora of Kings
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The family and friends who visited the Mountbattens during Lady Pamela's childhood read like a list of who's who in royalty, politics, high society, t...