India Amanda Caroline Hicks is a British designer writer businesswoman and former fashion model After graduating from the New England School of Photography Hicks became an interior designer and a model for Ralph Lauren among others She moved to the Bahamas in 1996 where she published books promoted home and beauty products and introduced a line of jewellery She also started a local boutique shop called The Sugar Mill Trading Company As a daughter of Lady Pamela Hicks she is a descendant of the Mountbatten family and a relative of the British royal family India is a second cousin and goddaughter to the Prince of Wales Hicks spoke to Insider about her life insisting that she is absolutely not a royal