Ashley Louis David Hicks (born 18 July 1963) is a British interior designer, author, photographer and artist.

It was there that his father designed elaborate landscapes that were "virtual outdoor rooms with carefully framed vistas".

[7] In 1978, the family decided to sell the house, and Hicks attended the three-day Sotheby's sale, 20–22 March 1979.

After the auction, the Hicks family moved to The Grove, a nearby estate, and also resided at Albany, an historic and exclusive apartment house in Piccadilly.

Through his maternal grandfather, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Hicks is a second cousin of King Charles III.

Lady Edwina Mountbatten was one of Britain's richest women, having inherited most of the £7.5 million fortune of her grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassel.

Hicks explains, "It means abracadabra, also hocus pocus, and is local slang for the Jaipur Observatory.

Hicks began photographing historic interiors for Cabana Magazine in 2016, ranging from a derelict glass factory in Murano, Venice, to grand English country houses like Houghton and Althorp.

In 2017 he photographed and wrote a history of Buckingham Palace: The Interiors, published by Rizzoli in conjunction with the Royal Collection.

They met in 1988, at the Café de Paris in London, when he was a student at the Architectural Association and she was studying art history at Sotheby's.

[1][10] Allegra remarried in June 2014 Marchese[25] Roberto Mottola di Amato, a Neapolitan landowner and entrepreneur.