India was not afraid to show off her mega fortune. In 2013 she shared a photo of a £10 note being set alight by the flames coming off a shot glass.

“Just saw £10 go up in flames… I could have used that to go home,” she wrote on Twitter alongside the snap.

In another tweet she boasted about splashing £180 on sweets, and on occasion she told how she was “on Alex’s roof in Soho, looking down on the little people".

When it came to her property tycoon dad John James’ 60th birthday, she revealed she was competing with her sister to impress him.

She wrote: “So I have seven days to get my dad a better present then (sic) what my sister got him – she got him a Bentley.”

Whirlwind romance

On a night out in Mayfair, India met Kooks star Hugh Harris. They later snogged at Reading Festival in 2015, and three months later she was pregnant.

Hugh proposed to her with an emerald on the roof of the Cafe Royal, and they celebrated their engagement at London’s swanky members’ club Groucho in 2016.

Their daughter, Sapphire – known as Saffi – was born in posh Portland Hospital, where Meghan Markle gave birth to son Archie.

The couple never married and are no longer together, having split on reasonable terms “to a degree", according to India.

Becoming a mum seems to have changed India. In 2020 she celebrated 18 months of sobriety, telling Tatler: “Honestly, I couldn’t be prouder of myself. 

“This probably has been the only goal I have ever set myself that I’ve actually completed."

Speaking of her past, she added: “I was having fun and, yeah… like, going out was happening a bit too often, and I started getting a reputation as a party girl. Which is fine when you're younger, but I was getting a bit… I don't judge people who are [partying], but I don't want that.

"I also don't want my daughter, if she looks me up online – which I'm sure she will at some point – to find that there are loads of articles about me out drunk. 

“That's not right. I want her to be reading articles about my achievements.”

India’s achievements now include running her art gallery, Soho Revue, and she and her sister are spearheading the reopening of Madame Jojo’s nightclub – which was forced to close in 2014 but has undergone a £16m refurb.

It’s a far cry from the teen who was thrown out of school for having an “uncontrollable attitude”.

“I was told I never had to work, ever," she told the Times. 

Clarifying it wasn't her grandfather who used to say that, she added: “It was more of a joke. But when people make jokes and you're a child, you start to adopt those lines. But I always wanted to work, I've always had a free spirit.”

Now she believes her attitudes to money are different, having read The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge.

“It's changed the way I view it,” she said. “I've learnt to value a pound now.”

Lavish parties

But that doesn’t mean India’s life has stopped being glamorous.

She still enjoys jet-setting around the world, sharing recent snaps from a trip to Italy showing a luxurious villa-style property and a private jet.

In December 2021, she celebrated her 30th birthday with a huge Harry Potter-themed Yule Ball.

India wore a custom-made ball gown illuminated by multicoloured LED lights, and the party included a tattoo bar, where society model Frankie Herbert got a "permanent reminder" of the night.

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Oh, how the other half live!

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