A Toff's Guide to Living in Poverty ; As a German Aristo Publishes a Self-Help Guide for Gentry On Their Uppers

Daily MailMay 05, 2005

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THE latest best-selling book is a guide to scrimping - by a German aristocrat fallen on hard times.The Art Of Stylish Poverty advises how to keep the bailiffs at bay with tips such as ditching your car and getting someone to darn your socks. Here, FRANCIS FULFORD, impoverished but aristocratic star of the TV documentary The F***ing Fulfords, offers tips on how to survive impoverishment in his own very English style ...

SO, COUNT Alexander Graf Von Schonburg- Glauchau has written a book which purports to be an idiot's guide to how you can continue to look smart while actually being on the brink of poverty.

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A Toff's Guide to Living in Poverty ; As a German Aristo Publishes a Self-Help Guide for Gentry On Their Uppers

Well, anything a German Count can do, an English Squire must be able to do better - especially one like me who has devoted his entire life's struggle to keeping his children in socks and the roof on his ancestral mansion.

Having perused the good Count's advice, which has so far sold 75,000 copies in Germany apparently, I have to say I think that it is a little, ...

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