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King Charles's goddaughter wipes video criticizing Meghan Markle from her website after backlash
King Charles' goddaughter has deleted a video from her website that featured Brooke Shields criticizing Meghan Markle.
India Hicks, who is the daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten, had initially featured the clip prominently on her Substack page.
The video showed Shields describing the Duchess of Sussex as 'too precious' following the 2024 SXSW panel.
4 King Charles' goddaughter, India Hicks, has deleted a video from her website that featured Brooke Shields criticizing Meghan Markle.
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Hicks, 57, was immediately targeted by fans of the 'Suits' alum, who had contacted her online with offensive language, The Post understands.
'Damn. Now I need to write f–k you on Brooke's social media. Apparently something about Meghan triggers the b–h in some women,' one person wrote online, per the Daily Mail.
Others accused Shields and Hicks of being 'racist Karens' in the video.
The former former fashion model turned entrepreneur has since replaced the clip with a feature video about London's best patisseries to avoid further scrutiny.
4 India Hicks is the daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten, who had served as the late Queen Elizabeth II's lady-in-waiting.
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Hicks' mother, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, had served as the lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
She and late interior designer David Hicks had welcomed India in 1967.
India, for her part, had served as a bridesmaid at the king's wedding to the late Princess Diana in 1981.
The 57-year-old interviewed Shields, 60, on her podcast about various topics, including her awkward encounter with Markle.
4 In the video, Shields described the Duchess of Sussex as 'too precious' following the 2024 SXSW panel.
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During their conversation, Shields revealed she had interrupted the As Ever founder during a live speech at an International Women's Day event in Austin, Texas, in March 2024, which was moderated by journalist Katie Couric.
'Katie asks the first question to Meghan and she talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women,' Shields told Hicks on her 'An Unexpected Journey' podcast.
'She 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 how 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.''
'She kept saying she was 11!' the 'Mother of the Bride' star exclaimed.
'She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial. 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.''
Shields, 60, recalled intervening at one point in an effort to switch up the mood.
'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,' Shields remembered.
4 Markle speaks onstage during the 'Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen' panel during the 2024 SXSW Conference.
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'I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we're different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute,' she joked, referencing her 1978 historical drama, 'Pretty Baby.'
'The place went insane,' Shields shared, claiming the crowd became 'more relaxed' after her comments.
