Addicted to hunting lodges, horses and endless parties, the free-spending Queen Mother was entangled in the honours-selling scandal of the century - but got clean away when her crooked friend was (helpfully) banished to France!

She was the last of the big spenders. An overdraft of seven million pounds at Coutts, a taste for champagne and fine food, and a string of the most expensive racehorses ever bred.

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