Dec 23, 2020
Beatrice Hughes passed from this life on December 21, 2020. Bea was an indomitable spirit, a workhorse warrior, who was always meticulously groomed, even for a casual trip to the store. Her family thought she was indestructible.
Bea was born at home, off a dirt road, deep up a holler in Doddridge County, West Virginia, on February 16, 1929. Raised by her grandmother, she survived the “Great Depression shucking walnuts, forgoing shoes, and wearing a flour sack for clothes.
Without much formal education, through the dint of hard work, she made her way to Weirton, West Virginia, where she met and married the father of her four daughters, Glenn “Buddy” Hughes. Tragedy struck all too soon. Her husband died at thirty-two years of age, leaving her with three girls under six and six months pregnant with the youngest.
Beauchamp Estates
There’s been a change in the water – a very definitive shift in the ways that the international super-rich manage their roster of overseas properties. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, it was very much the status symbol that the well-heeled be in possession of a miniature property empire; a house in London, a ski property in Verbier, maybe somewhere down the South of France and somewhere in the Caribbean (ideally Mustique). These days, the super-rich are far more likely to rent.
David Forbes, the chairman of the Savills Private Office (‘a sort of property concierge business’) – with its outposts in Russia, China, Singapore, Europe and the Middle-east (they operate in 70 countries) – is at the very centre of the Savills spider’s web. He has been in the business a long time and is therefore able to accurately comment and reflect on what he has seen – the changes, fluctuations and trends – as a bystander. Back to the trends of yesteryear, Forbes says: �