ON the face of it, it is a story of unadulterated privilege: the noble pedigree, the education commensurate with hereditary status (he followed his father to Eton), the stint at Sandhurst (again, in his pater's footsteps), the commission into a cavalry regiment, the impressive commercial success in civilian life. All was accomplished in self-effacing fashion, in keeping with his diminutive stature and sub-fusc style: a man always happiest at home on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire border, the only suggestion of flamboyance being...
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