EXCLUSIVE King Charles' goddaughter India Hicks mysteriously deletes video from her website of Hollywood star Brooke Shields criticising Meghan Markle for being 'too precious'

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The King's goddaughter has mysteriously deleted a video of a Hollywood star being critical of Meghan Markle, MailOnline can reveal today.
India Hicks, who was a bridesmaid at Charles and Diana's wedding, has removed footage of Brooke Shields calling the Duchess of Sussex 'precious' from her personal website.
Ms Hicks, a fashion model turned entrepreneur, is daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, and the late interior designer David Hicks. King Charles III is her godfather.
India also hosts a podcast where she interviewed star Brooke Shields where she revealed she interrupted Meghan Markle live on stage in front of thousands of people.
Brooke claimed she did this because the Duchess of Sussex was being 'too precious' in her speech about gender equality on International Women's Day.
But royal watchers have spotted that the clip, posted at the top of India's popular Substack and made headlines around the world, has been removed.
Both women have been targeted by Meghan's supporters - known as the Sussex Squad. There is no suggestion this has anything to do with the Duchess herself.
Several Twitter trolls bizarrely accused both Brooke and India of being 'racist Karens' and 'b*tches' over the podcast anecdote.
Another wrote: 'Damn. Now I need to write f*** you on Brooke's social media. Apparently something about Meghan triggers the b*tch in some women'.
Before: India's filmed interview with Brooke was at the centre of her popular substack
MailOnline has asked Ms Hicks to comment on why the video of her chat with Ms Shields has gone. It appears to have been replaced by a feature on London and its best patisseries.
The 60-year-old Hollywood actress shared the 'too precious' anecdote on the latest episode of India Hicks ' podcast, which was released ten days ago.
Brooke was discussing the International Women's Day panel in Austin, Texas, from March 2024, where she had been joined by Meghan on stage.
When the discussion began, and the former Suits star, 43, started answering Katie's opening question, Brooke said the tone quickly became overly serious.
'Katie asks the first question to Meghan and talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women, etcetera, etcetera,' Brooke explained.
'[Meghan] starts telling a story about how when she was 11... And she keeps saying, well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about washing dishes and only soap for washing dishes was for women.
'And she said, 'I didn't think only women wash dishes. It wasn't fair. So I wrote to the company. And when I was 11, I wrote my first letter and when I was 11...' and she kept saying she was 11! She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial.'
At that point, Brooke said, she couldn't resist breaking the tension in the room - and the earnestness of Meghan's response.
'I go, "Excuse me, I'm so sorry. I've got to interrupt you there for one minute,"
'I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious.
'I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we're different,' Brooke told the audience. 'I said, 'Well, when I was 11, I was playing a prostitute.'
'The place went insane. And then luckily, it was more relaxed after that.'
The comment was a reference to Brooke's breakout role as a child star in the controversial 1978 film Pretty Baby, in which she played a child sex worker - a role that sparked debate at the time and has remained the subject of intense scrutiny in the decades since.
In Austin, the moment broke the ice, as the crowd broke out into laughter.
'I was like, oh, I hope she doesn't think I'm rude. I'm not being rude,' Brooke added.
India - daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, and the late interior designer David Hicks, agreed that lightening the serious mood Meghan created was the right thing to do. 'I think it's genius,' she said.
Reflecting on the exchange, Brooke added: 'It was just too precious. And I was like, they're not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious.'
Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, Katie Couric, Brooke Shields and Nancy Wang Yuen take part in the keynote 'Breaking Barrier, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen'
Despite the crowd's response, Brooke acknowledged that the moment might not have gone down quite so well with Meghan herself.
'This was in front of [thousands of people]. I mean, it was crazy,' she said. 'And then afterwards, she was kind of like, oh, okay. And I was like, let's just have some fun with it.'
Brooke added: 'I don't know if you'll have to cut this out.'
Meghan had been telling an anecdote she's referred to on many occasions about fighting a 'sexist' Proctor & Gamble commercial when she was just 11 years old.
Aged 11, Meghan wrote to Procter & Gamble to object to sexism in a dish soap advert which included the line: 'Mothers around America are fighting greasy pots and pans.'
She asked them to change the advert to 'people all over America' and the company amended the language.
She subsequently appeared in an interview on Nick News in 1993, saying she was 'furious' at the advert for P&G's Ivory Clear.
Beaming with pride, Meghan had happily agreed to share the story with the crowd - having mentioned it at multiple events over the years.