Summary
VISCOUNT Linley is on the cusp of achieving his lifetime ambition: being very rich. His bespoke design and furniture business, which not so long ago was losing money, is expanding with the backing of a billionaire Russian oligarch, and there are plans for branches in Moscow and Monaco.
His client base of famous names -- Oprah Winfrey, Sir Elton John, Lord Archer, Hong Kong entrepreneur David Tang -- stretches from the Far East to the U.S., and he has branches in London's Belgravia and Mayfair. This is a glowing testimonial to his undoubted talent.See the full content of this document
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Meet the Glumleys ; His Business Is Booming, Bankrolled by a Russian Oligarch. But Is Lord Linley's Insatiable Lust for Cash Casting a Pall Over His Marriage?
And with his board of directors being augmented by Sergei Pugachev, a friend of Vladimir Putin and known as 'the cashier to the Kremlin', the company he founded in 1985 after emerging from carpentry college is poised for rapid and lucrative expansion.
He balances this with his other job, chairman of Christie's, the worldrenowned auction house.His father, the Earl of Snowdon, a mere photographer when he married the Queen's...See the full content of this document
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