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Why we still love all those lords aleaping

Written by Cristina Odone and published in The Observer on Mon 24th Apr 2006

There is the one who used to gallivant about town with a parakeet on his shoulder; the one who, instead of flowers as her dinner-table centrepiece, had a live sow and piglets in a glass case; the one who keeps wild animals on his estate; and the one who keeps a clutch of 'wifelets' on his. When you see what Britain's aristocrats get up to, you wonder why big businessmen who should know better would wish to pay outrageous sums to get a title.

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