Hints and tips:
...Family businesses have strange dynamics, particularly around the selection of an heir. At least Oedipus didn’t have to win his father’s backing as his named successor....
...Henry Mance is the FT’s chief feature writer. Yuichiro Kanematsu is a Nikkei staff writer....
...For long centuries, our stubborn island mentality made every Channel crossing a voyage into the hostile unknown....
...John D Rockefeller Sr was one of the wealthiest men of all time, with an estimated net worth of $340bn in today’s terms....
...Such is the price Eustis pays for casting Gregg Henry as a Trump impersonator so on-the-nose he could have walked off the set of the TV sketch show Saturday Night Live....
...“The curtain is still being pulled back,” says Shawn Henry, a former assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, now president of CrowdStrike, the cyber security company drafted in to defend...
...She long ago surpassed the other members of the 50-year-club, George III, Henry III and Edward III....
...Aristocratic buyers leapt at the opportunity to secure the Mayfair leaseholds, as many of the street names testify: Grafton Street after the Duke of Grafton, Dover Street after the first Baron Dover, Henry...
...These are works by Robert De Niro Sr, the actor’s father, a relatively unknown American painter, who died in 1993....
...Most of us know the story: Mr and Mrs Bennet have no son and heir, but five daughters to dispose of in the uncompromising Georgian marriage market....
...He prescribed that his heirs should buy gilt-edged government bonds. They served him well but eventually blew much of the fortune away in the inflationary 1970s....
...Still, insiders tip her as the eventual aesthetic heir....
...heir, albeit in the anti-urban person of Thomas Jefferson....
...Biermann tells the story of how Wenger in 2004 was looking for an heir to Arsenal’s all-action midfielder Patrick Vieira. Wenger wanted a player who could cover lots of ground....
...Accepting that Mary would be childless, Charles V realised that if Elizabeth was executed, the next heir was Mary Queen of Scots, daughter of Mary of Guise and betrothed to the Dauphin of France....
...The heirs of the legendary art dealer Ileana Sonnabend, who died in 2007, sold some of her art collection privately for $600m....
...Her body was smuggled out of her abbey at night, unknown to the monks....
...For Henry’s 50-plus adult heirs – a disparate bunch that includes a Hare Krishna convert, an author of books on etiquette, a winery owner and a Hollywood producer – the decline of the company is both a financial...
...Carl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis (1733-1805), heir to a dynasty that prospers to this day....
...He has led his country into two wars, both based on new principles of military engagement - hunting out the hosts of the enemy in Afghanistan, pre-empting an unknown, and it turns out exaggerated, threat...
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