Business-minded aristocrats defy their sleepy stereotype
Rumours of the death of the aristocracy are exaggerated, as a modern 'premier league' of peers are at the top of their game

Eleanor Doughty is a journalist and interviewer. She began her career in journalism at the Daily Telegraph, and specialises in writing about the moneyed and titled classes. Now freelance, her writing appears in the Financial Times, the Spectator, Country Life, The Times and Sunday Times, the Telegraph, and many other publications. When she is not writing, she can be found either on or near a horse. She is currently writing her first book, about the British aristocracy, for Penguin Random House.
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