India Hicks

India Amanda Caroline Hicks (born 5 September 1967) is a British designer, writer, businesswoman and former fashion model.

Hicks travels frequently to disaster sites in her role with the non-profit organisation Global Empowerment Mission.

A daughter of Lady Pamela Hicks, she is a maternal descendant of the House of Mountbatten and a relative of the British royal family.

[citation needed] After graduating college, Hicks' father introduced her to Emilio Pucci in Florence, Italy, where she modelled swimsuits.

[18] In the Bahamas, Hicks restored homes, invested and remodelled a hotel, and published several books on design and lifestyle.

[19] Hicks also started a boutique shop in the Bahamas called the Sugar Mill Trading Company with business partner Linda Griffin.

[12] Hicks also became a public commentator on events surrounding the royal family and the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

She also rode a 100-mile (160 km) bike ride to raise money for cancer victims, in memory of her adopted son's biological mother.

[31] On behalf of GEM, she visited the Abaco Islands after Hurricane Dorian, Alabama after it experienced a tornado, Florida after the surfside condominium collapse, and Poland during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[32] In 2020 Hicks pleaded guilty at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court to shoplifting a coat and was ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge.

Her spokesperson stated "The court accepted that at the time of taking the coat, India had simply been absent-minded and hadn't intended to leave without paying for it".

Hicks visiting the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian , as part of the Global Empowerment Mission, 2019