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London – The trouble is, darlings, it is very expensive to be rich. No sooner have you bought your big house than you have to extend it into an even bigger one, decorate it, put serious art on the walls, landscape the garden and staff it.

Once you’ve got it looking immaculate, just a few years down the line it will look tired again and need a rehaul. It’s a process is without end.

Holidays, meanwhile, escalate from travelling first class to taking a private jet. Hanging around at airports with the fast-food-eating proletariat is so irksome. And children in private schools must have expensive tutoring on the side to keep up with their gilded friends.

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