India Hicks

Daughter of famed interior decorator David Hicks, India is the granddaughter of Lord and Lady Mountbatten of Burma and godchild of the Prince of Wales (she was chosen as a bridesmaid in the fairytale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1980). Born in London in 1967, India attended school at Gordonstoun in Scotland. After backpacking around the world for a year, she moved to Boston to pursue a degree in photography. When Ralph Lauren saw her featured in W Magazine, her career suddenly moved to the other side of the camera. That was 10 years ago. As a model she’s appeared in some of the world’s leading magazines including American Vogue, Elle, Harper’s and Marie Claire, and she’s recently been featured with her partner, David Flint Wood, endorsing Banana Republic.

She and Flint Wood have two children–Felix, 2, and Amory, 4–and live on Harbour Island in the Bahamas, where they run The Landing, an 1800s restored building that houses a restaurant, hotel and small shop. In her "spare" time, Hicks is quite the adventurer; she’s an expert horseback rider and scuba diver but also enjoys roller-blading, bungee-jumping and hang-gliding!

Home for India Hicks and her family is a 1950s five-bedroom Bahamian beach house. She and David Flint Wood bought the home in 1997, then spent a year adding verandas and balustrades to give the home an 1850s look. A breezy, light-filled space just steps away from the ocean, the house has a cheery seasonal style combined with grand Caribbean flourishes.