King Charles' Goddaughter and Royal Wedding Bridesmaid India Hicks Reveals Skin Cancer Diagnosis Meredith KileDecember 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM 0 Andrew Milligan WPA Pool/Getty; Dave Benett/Getty King Charles; India Hicks King Charles' goddaughter India Hicks recently revealed she was diagnosed with "fastmoving" skin cancer Hicks underwent surgery in Florida and received the allclear just days before Thanksgiving She is the latest member of the royal family's inner circle to share a cancer diagnosis, following the King and Kate Middleton's announcements last year Another member of the royal family'...
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Meredith KileDecember 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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King Charles' goddaughter India Hicks recently revealed she was diagnosed with "fast-moving" skin cancer
Hicks underwent surgery in Florida and received the all-clear just days before Thanksgiving
She is the latest member of the royal family's inner circle to share a cancer diagnosis, following the King and Kate Middleton's announcements last year
Another member of the royal family's circle has been diagnosed with cancer.
India Hicks, the goddaughter of King Charles, revealed she was recently diagnosed with skin cancer in a post on her Substack this week, sharing how she had recently been hoping for a quiet week at home when "life, with its own mysterious choreography, shifted the plan."
"The test results from a recent skin-cancer operation came back, and the news was…not great," Hicks shared. "Not dramatic-movie-scene not great, but just unsettlingly not great. The kind of news that makes the world blur slightly at the edges."
The 58-year-old designer and former fashion model, whose mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, was a lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth, revealed that her test results showed "a worryingly fast-moving patch of cancer in my lower calf."
"I reacted the way most people do: a strange mixture of calm practicality and a little private terror. You tell yourself you're fine, you make tea, you answer emails, all while a small internal voice is whispering, what if it's worse than we think?"
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Lady Pamela Hicks and India Hicks in 2017
Hicks is a relative of the royal family, as her mother is descended from the House of Mountbatten. Lady Pamela was a first cousin of the late Prince Philip and is currently the oldest living descendant of Queen Victoria.
When she was 13, Hicks served as a bridesmaid in Charles' royal wedding to Princess Diana.
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India Hicks (left) at Princess Diana and Prince Charles' wedding in 1981
Hicks, who now splits her time between a home in the Cotswolds and Harbour Island in the Bahamas, wrote that she found a doctor in Miami who could perform an urgent Mohs procedure, a surgical method where cancerous skin is removed layer by layer until no damaged cells remain.
"The procedure itself was only relatively uncomfortable. You sit there with an open incision in your leg while they whisk the tissue to the pathology lab. And then comes the hardest part: waiting," she recalled of the "strange limbo" of the surgery. "You feel fine, you're chatting, you're scrolling your phone, and yet everything hinges on what's happening in another room."
Finally, Hicks learned that "this time, I was lucky." She received the all-clear from the doctor and returned home in time to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with her family, one bright spot in the emotional turmoil of her recent weeks. "I love the gathering, friends around the table, the loud laughter, the happy chaos."
Hicks married her longtime partner, David Flint Wood, in 2021. The couple shares five children: Felix, 28, Wesley, 27, Amory, 26, Conrad, 22, and Domino, 18.
Hicks' diagnosis came one year after King Charles and Kate Middleton announced their cancer diagnoses.
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In February 2024, the palace shared that the King was diagnosed with cancer and had begun treatment. He'd had a procedure to treat a benign enlarged prostate the month prior, but a spokesman clarified he does not have prostate cancer.
Just a month later, in March 2024, Princess Kate went public with her own cancer diagnosis. She underwent chemotherapy treatment and, in January 2025, announced that her cancer was in remission.
Prince William opened up about dealing with the double diagnosis in his candid appearance on Eugene Levy's Apple TV+ series, The Reluctant Traveler, which premiered in September.
"I'd say '23-'24 was the hardest year I've ever had," he admitted. "You know, life is sent to test us, and being able to overcome that is what makes us who we are."
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