aristocracy

How China’s ‘red aristocracy’ has sneaked its way into the heart of Britain’s financial powerhouses 

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Top communist party leaders in China are known as the ‘red aristocracy’, and, for all their professed belief in equality, they like to ensure a gold-plated future for their children. Hence the so-called ‘princelings’, who are placed in high-flying financial businesses in the West. For Western hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds and banks, a … Read more

Ann Lowe made Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding gown was personal couturier for American aristocracy

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Ann Lowe (pictured above in an undated photo) learned to sew from her grandmother who was a freed slave that worked as a seamstress on a plantation. As a child, Lowe helped her mother and grandmother with their lucrative dressmaking business in Montgomery, Alabama  Roosevelt, Dupont, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Rothschild, Whitney, Post, Auchincloss. Lodge. Ann Lowe’s … Read more