EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: The secrets of Clarissa Eden s long and extraordinary life did not die with her. I can disclose that she appointed Hugo Vickers to be her literary executor.
Built in 1616, Chilham Castle near Canterbury, Kent, boasts a swimming pool, its own shooting grounds, tennis courts and 16 bedrooms. It sits on a 300-acre plot of land.
While the pandemic has wreaked havoc on vast swathes of British business, trading firms are in the pink.
Households are estimated to have built up around £100billion of extra cash in lockdown as spending on everything from travel to meals out evaporated.
Many of these accidental savers have looked for ways to put this money to work – and with interest rates at record lows, the volatile world of the financial markets has become a tempting alternative.
IG Group, headed by banker June Felix (pictured), one of the few female chief execs on the FTSE 250, has seen its active client list swell from 133,800 to 207,000 over the last year