D-U-B-E-S-O-R. I'm coming to you backwards and forwards.

This is Rosebud. I'm Jasperreth, and this has been a special week for Rosebud, because we've been remembering our late Queen, Elizabeth II, born on the 21st of April, 1926, 100 years ago.

In London, there have been, well, events to mark the centenary, and I wanted us on Rosebud to meet people who might have known the Queen and could tell us

interesting and surprising and unexpected stories about her.

So on Tuesday, our special guest was Major General Alastair Bruce, who knew the Queen

personally and told his story.

It was quite fascinating to me.

And today I've got somebody,

I think, very special indeed, who actually was related to Elizabeth II because she is one of

the descendants of Queen Victoria, because she belongs to the Mountbatten family. It's India Hicks.

She's been a designer, a writer, a businesswoman.

She was once upon a time a fashion model.

It spent much of her life in the Bahamas.

But she's an international person.

Her mother is Lady Pamela Hicks, who knew the late Queen well.

And indeed, I think, was with Elizabeth II on the very day that she became

our queen back in 1952. India's story, her own story, is fascinating, and her insights on, well, on royal

history, the royal family. Indeed, about when she was a bridesmaid,

a high-profile bridesmaid,

at the wedding of Prince Charles,

as he then was, the Prince of Wales,

and Diana, who became Princess of Wales.

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