King Charles’s goddaughter issues ‘manipulation’ warning ahead of exhausting and gruelling schedule

King Charles’s goddaughter has issued a “manipulation” warning ahead of an exhausting and gruelling schedule.

India Hicks, the granddaughter of the late Lord Louis Mountbatten, appeared on this week’s episode of The Royal Record podcast, where she spoke about the King and Queen’s upcoming Australia tour.

Cameron Walker, GB News’s Royal Correspondent, asked Hicks about her mother Lady Pamela Hicks, 95, a close confidante and lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth II.

He said: “Your mother spent many, many months with the late Queen on Commonwealth tours, and King Charles will be going on his own Commonwealth tour in just a few weeks to Australia and Samoa.

Do you think your mother would have any advice for King Charles, your godfather?”

Hicks responded: “I think our King is very versed in all of these things.

“He’s waited a long time for this job and he’s very practised at it.

“He had a lot of apprenticeship years. There’s very little advice my mum could give him.

Also, when the Queen undertook those two Commonwealth tours, she was incredibly young, she was something like 22 when they left. The King, of course, is of a different age.”

King Charles, 75, and Queen Camilla, 77, will be heading off to Oceania in October for the first time since the Coronation.

Hicks issued a warning to the monarch ahead of his “exhausting” upcoming tour.

She said: “The only thing one can think of is how utterly exhausting those tours are.

You are on show all the time. Your every move is judged and analysed. Your every smile, your every expression, the every word that comes out of your mouth.

“Everybody takes it and looks at it and manipulates it.

“Imagine how exhausting that must be. Particularly for a man who’s working very hard.

“So it will be exhausting, but I think, probably very necessary.”