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Inside the Vienna Opera Ball, where debutantes party like it's 1887
The heady social whirl that Austrian high society continues to enjoy reaches its glittering apogee in this historic bash
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Meet Amelia and Eliza, the Spencer twins set to take London by storm
Lady Amelia and Eliza, cousins of Princes William and Harry, had a quiet childhood in South Africa. Now they're stepping into the spotlight
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The secrets of running the real Downton Abbey
It costs £1m a year to look after and the WiFi doesn't work – the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon reveal the true cost of Highclere Castle
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CNN's Anderson Cooper on his Vanderbilt family legacy: 'My mom always felt like an imposter'
In an exclusive interview, the political commentator talks about the Vanderbilt fortune and why he won’t leave his son a major inheritance
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Nanny theft, disappearing butlers and other rich people problems
With country houses having to be closed down due to a lack of staff, how much more can the poor rich take?
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Will Trump's Truth platform be of any use to Twitter-obsessed billionaires?
The super-rich use social media to destabilise governments, shape financial markets and attack rivals - and this is how they do it
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Tech billionaires are making battlefields of their English country estates by alienating the locals
Jemima Goldsmith isn't the only one battling public access issues - many owners of country estates feel her pain
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Anna Wintour kicks off Gala Season as New York's poverty gap soars
Manhattan is seething among a sea of homelessness, but the rich will donate in return for evenings of endless opulence that cost thousands
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Inside the lives of the globetrotting polo set: 'People have affairs, it's difficult to settle down'
A French photographer brings the Jilly Cooper world of polo vividly to life - but freedom comes at a price, she writes
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Porn in the ballroom and lions in the garden: how aristocrats saved their country houses from the taxman
In his new book, Adrian Tinniswood discovers how draconian death duties forced the upper classes to get creative
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Life inside Britain’s grandest country houses is ‘prehistoric’ — but modern aristocrats are adapting
The National Trust has lost its way, but private owners are bringing new life to old traditions of power, wealth and status
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Inside the billionaire lifestyle of the real Succession set
As the series returns to our screens with its depiction of the lives of the ultra-rich, we reveal how money really does change everything
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Countess Alexandra Tolstoy on her 'annus horribilis' and how she found solace in Mykonos
The writer's fugitive Russian billionaire ex had overshadowed her life for too long but she was determined 2021 would be different
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How to tell the movers and the fakers at the Monaco Yacht Fair – where vessels sell for £150m each
Parties were banned at this year's fair – but sales were booming
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The public is 'irrelevant' at Basel Art Fair, where billionaires party hard and compete for $40m paintings
In this rarefied world, artworks are sold two days before the fair even opens and ultra-glossy collectors outshine any fashionista
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I had the first drink at Claridge's newest bar - here's why it will become London's post-pandemic hotspot
Welcome to the Painter's Room, where dreamy decor and exceptional cocktails should get the A-list flocking
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How superstition and clairvoyants influenced fashion designers from Christian Dior to Coco Chanel
The supernatural and the occult have helped shape high fashion in many ways
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The curse of the heiress — doomed to gold-digging husbands, afflictions and addictions
Vulnerable or powerful? The ‘poor little rich girl’ is a familiar figure in our culture — and we shouldn't hate her as much as we do
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Earl Spencer on his obsession with finding the shipwreck that changed the English monarchy forever
The Earl 'couldn't have been more excited' as his lifetime obsession - a story to rival Game of Thrones - became tangible in French waters
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Inside the life of Gay Talese, New York's groundbreaking writer who dines out seven nights a week
The writer attributes his long and, luckily, healthy life to one dry gin martini every evening — but never two
