Aristocrats Who Lost All Their Money
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By Becki Robins/Jan. 15, 2021 1:09 am EDT
Aristocrats are kind of known for being quirky. At various points throughout history, they've been portrayed as glamorous, ridiculous, snobbish, excessive, and about a million other adjectives. But they were almost universally not known for one particular thing, and that's being frugal. Nope, if you were born into the upper class you tended to like to flaunt your money with fancy parties and velvet robes and expensive horses. Now, some aristocrats were smarter about their cash than others, and these folks were able to juggle the complexities of flaunting their wealth with, you know, actually hanging onto most of it at least until the day after they died from gluttony or suffocating under a 30-foot-high pile of paper money or something.