%%Insert preview image. Put '|500' after the first set of brackets.%%  > [!abstract] Abstract > **Publish Date:** [[07-29-2021]] > **Author:** [[Annabelle Spranklen]] > **Source:** [[Tatler]] > **Archived URL:** <https://archive.is/FJ7Lg> > **Summary:** Princess Diana chose five young bridesmaids: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Clementine Hambro, India Hicks, Sarah-Jane Gasalee and Catherine Cameron. So, why were they picked and where are they now? > **Tags:** # Full Text It was considered the ‘wedding of the century’ and ‘the last great state event of the 20th century’ where a fresh-faced 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer would become the Princess of Wales, marrying the heir-apparent, 32-year-old Prince Charles. The couple chose to have five bridesmaids to accompany Diana down the aisle, made up of mostly children, something both the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex later chose to adopt on their subsequent weddings days. Diana's young bridesmaids were Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Clementine Hambro, India Hicks, Sarah-Jane Gasalee and Catherine Cameron. So, why were they picked and where are they now? ## Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones Known today as Lady Sarah Chatto, she is Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon’s daughter and the Queen’s niece. At 17, Sarah was the oldest bridesmaid at Diana and Charles’ wedding. After leaving Bedales, Sarah went on to art school before heading to India for a two-year sabbatical, which included working with her father on the film set of A Passage to India. It was here that she met her husband, artist and former actor Daniel Chatto. The couple married in 1994 and have two sons, artist Samuel and athlete and personal trainer Arthur Chatto. Sarah is Prince Harry’s godmother. A working artist, she's vice-president of The Royal Ballet and continues to paint and exhibit her works through London’s Redfern Gallery.  <center>^{<b>Keystone / Hulton Archive / Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty Images</b>}</center> ## India Hicks India was 13 when she was plucked to be Diana’s bridesmaid. Her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, was lady-in-waiting to the Queen and her father, David Nightingale Hicks, a famous interior designer. She’s the granddaughter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and Prince Charles is her godfather. After first training as a photographer and later modelling in campaigns for the likes of Ralph Lauren, J. Crew and Tod’s, India went on to launch a successful career in interior design, becoming a creative director of Crabtree and Evelyn and publishing several books on design and lifestyle. Today, she lives in the Bahamas with her partner of 25 years, David Flint Wood, with whom she is engaged (Covid meant they had to delay their December wedding) and the couple have five sons, including a foster child. India has spoken numerous times about her experience as a bridesmaid. She told _Town & Country_ back in 2018 about a moment ahead of the wedding, writing, ‘Diana was amused to watch herself on a tiny television screen that had been found in the nursery; she would flick away anyone who got in the way. During a commercial break, the advert for Cornetto ice cream came on and she started singing. Soon we all joined in. "Just one Cornneeeettttoooo" could be heard from the top floor.’ She also revealed on Instagram that she still has her flower wreath from the wedding, safely preserved in Perspex.  <center>^{<b>Credit: Anwar Hussein / Dave Benett / Getty Images</b>}</center> ## Clementine Hambro Clemmie was just five-years-old when she appeared at the royal wedding. The great-granddaughter of Winston Churchill and daughter of investment banker Richard Hambro, she was a pupil at the Young England kindergarten, where Diana was a nursery teacher. Clemmie was famously scooped up by the bride when she banged her head and cried after the ceremony, a moment that was snapped by a wedding photographer at Buckingham Palace. She went on to drama school and later worked for Christie’s. She married Orlando Fraser, the son of historian Antonia Fraser, in 2006. The couple have four children and today Clemmie writes about gardening. She opened up about her experience as a bridesmaid ahead of Kate and William’s 2011 nuptials telling a US talk show, ‘I really remember being very tired’, adding ‘I remember being very proud to be involved but actually, I had very little idea of all this sort of situation that was going on.’  <center>^{<b> Princess Diana Archive / /Hulton Royals Collection / Dave Benett / Getty Images </b>}</center> ## Sarah-Jane Gaselee The daughter of racehorse trainer Nick Gaselee, who taught Charles how to be a jump jockey, Sarah was 11 when she was a bridesmaid at Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ wedding. She reportedly regarded Diana as a big sister figure at the time and once told press, ‘I remember Diana giving me a piggyback ride when she asked me to be her bridesmaid.’ She also revealed Diana remained in touch for many years. ‘She would often write to me when I was homesick at boarding school. We kept in touch solidly until I was about 18.' After school, Sarah travelled extensively, riding across the Namibian desert for a breast cancer charity and working on charity projects in Congo, before marrying film producer Paul Andrews. The couple have two children and today live between Barbados and London. She sold her bridesmaid dress to Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, in 1999 for an estimated £11,000, a decision she reportedly ‘bitterly regrets.’  <center>^{<b> PA Images / Alan Davidson / Shutterstock </b>}</center> ## Catherine Cameron Perhaps the most unknown of all Diana and Charles’ bridesmaids, Catherine was six-year-old when she became part of the royal wedding party. She’s the daughter of Prince Charles's friend, Lady Cecil Cameron, and granddaughter of the 12th Marquess and Marchioness of Lothian. After graduating from Edinburgh University, Catherine began a career in publishing and is now a literary agent. Fellow bridesmaid India Hicks once revealed that Catherine was very allergic to horses and spent a significant period of the wedding ‘miserably blowing her little nose on her petticoats.’  <center>^{<b> PA Images </b>}</center> ----  ------ # Keep Digging %%Space%% ## Tags #Archive/Article ### Footnotes & References