Summary
LIKE some persistent monkey on the back of a noble dynasty, bad luck continues to haunt the Baring family. Lord Northbrook, who as Francis Baring endured the dramatic evaporation of his financial inheritance thanks to rogue trader Nick Leeson, has now, I discover, suffered a further two personal calamities.
Not only has his lovingly restored country house in Hampshire been destroyed by fire: but also his 18-year marriage to the mother of his three daughters, Amelia, 45, is over.See the full content of this document
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So Does Fate Have It in for the Barings?
His mother, the Dowager Lady Northbrook, confirms the unhappy news. She tells me: 'They've very sadl...
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