India Hicks

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India Hicks
Born India Amanda Caroline Hicks
(1967-09-05) 5 September 1967
London, England
Partner(s) David Flint Wood
Parents David Nightingale Hicks
Lady Pamela Hicks

India Amanda Caroline Hicks (born 5 September 1967 in London, England) is a former fashion model, 678th in line to the line of succession to the British Throne.[1]

Early life

The third child of Lady Pamela Mountbatten and David Nightingale Hicks, a celebrated interior designer of the 1960s and 1970s. Through her maternal grandfather, The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, she is a second cousin to The Prince of Wales, who is also her godfather.[2]

Raised in London and Oxfordshire, she was educated at Gordonstoun until she was expelled for entertaining boys in her room,[3][4] and spent holidays at the family estate in Ireland and at her father's self-designed and built Bahamian-holiday home.[5] In 1981, she served as bridesmaid to Lady Diana Spencer at her wedding to the Prince.[6]

Career

Aged 17, she drove from England to Italy to meet designer Emilio Pucci. On arrival, he made her model all of his catsuits.[7] Hicks later moved to New York, and developed a career as a model in the 1980s and 1990s, working for Ralph Lauren and J. Crew,[5] and featuring in Tatler magazine.

In 1990, Hicks graduated from the New England School of Photography in Boston, MA with a concentration in Color and Editorial photography [8]

Hicks presently co-manages a hotel development in the Caribbean with her partner. The creator of an all-natural body-and-home-fragrance line with Crabtree & Evelyn, she is also a published author.[9]

In 2007, Hicks hosted the second season of the Bravo interior design competition TV series Top Design.

In 2011, she commentated on the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, for both ITV and ABC; and is presently the face of Viyella.[10]

Personal life

Hicks has four children with her boyfriend, interior designer turned hotelier David Flint Wood:[4]

  • Felix Austen Flint Wood (born 23 May 1997 Miami, Florida)
  • Amory John Flint Wood (born 25 June 1999 Miami, Florida)
  • Conrad Lorenzo Flint Wood (born 25 April 2003 Miami, Florida)
  • Domino Carmen Flint Wood (born 17 December 2007 Miami, Florida)

The family lives in the Bahamas in a plantation-style house Hibiscus Hill, which was featured in an article in the overseas property magazine A Place in the Sun in June 2008.[11]

Ancestry

Preceded by
Jordan Brudenell		 Line of succession to the British Throne Succeeded by
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

References

  1. ↑ "Succession 2011". WARGS. Retrieved 15 June 2013. 
  2. ↑ Nugent, Emma (6 January 2000). "Charles: The Godfather". Daily Record. Retrieved 15 June 2013. 
  3. ↑ "My Secret Life: India Hicks, interior designer, 42 - Profiles". The Independent. Retrieved 15 June 2013. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "India Hicks: He was all alone – I cried and took him in". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2014-01-29. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Muhlke, Christine (19 February 2009). "Profile in Style: India Hicks". The New York times. Retrieved 15 June 2013. 
  6. ↑ Christine Haughney, "A Royal Wedding? She's Been There", The New York Times, 1 April 2011
  7. ↑ Post (23 April 2011). "An Interview With India Hicks". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 March 2013. 
  8. ↑ "Jewelry designer India Hicks drops in at the Boston Design Center". Boston. 13 June 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2013. 
  9. ↑ India Hicks, website.
  10. ↑ "India Hicks, the royal bridesmaid with a no-frills attitude, is the new face of Viyella". Telegraph. Retrieved 10 March 2013. 
  11. ↑ "Hibiscus Hill - Home". Hibiscus hill harbour island. Retrieved 10 March 2013. 

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