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...His friends in the corps diplomatique mocked him for his decision to second himself here. “They said to me, ‘You’ll be a kind of farmer’,” he says....
...From the FT: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi investor whose interests range from the Hotel George V in Paris to a stake in Twitter, announced on Monday that he had “severed ties” with the Forbes billionaires...
...Savoy in London, the Plaza in New York and the George V, Paris....
...To mark the event an exhibition opens next month at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, bringing together for the first time a collection of photographs presented to George V by the official expedition...
...as well as the George V Hotel in Paris and the Fairmont Raffles....
...Aside from Citi, Kingdom owns some serious assets – stakes in companies like Apple, Pepsico, Proctor & Gamble, News Corporation – as well as genuine trophy assets like the Hotel George V in Paris....
...“If we host an event in a five-star hotel the only guarantee is it’ll cost us a lot of money,” says Mr Levin....
...A judge in Regina v....
...The prince, who has substantial stakes in the three hotel chains – and also owns the Savoy in London and 25 per cent of the George V in Paris – launched a $3.2bn bid for Fairmont last week with Colony Capital...
...The prince was also part of a consortium that bought the UK Savoy hotel group, adding to hotel interests such as the George V in Paris. Meanwhile, Sanyo?...
...At his hotel, the George V. Does he always stay there when he’s in Paris? Actually, he owns it. The world’s fifth richest man, worth an estimated $21.5bn, tends to own things....
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