The super-rich are paying $500,000 to meet athletes at the Olympics theguardian.com/sport/article/…

Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Christopher Beaumont, takes on the Barclay dynasty. Beaumont is attempting to snap up abandoned hotels and other buildings belonging to the Torygraph billionaires. via Rupert Neate theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…

Latest episode in the Cost of the crown podcast series, featuring Maeve McClenaghan and Rupert Neate’s run in with the law for visiting a public churchyard near the King’s private estate in Norfolk.

Wanted: an animal-loving billionaire who might consider buying 1,993 threatened white rhinos instead of a new superyacht or a Picasso, or a Picasso onboard a superyacht.

Quite liked that intro

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REVEALED: Direct ancestors of King Charles and the British royal family owned slave plantations in Virginia, documents show. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

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The king argues his personal fortune is a 'private' matter. With the help of 12 experts, our investigation team traced and valued assets worth an estimated £1.8bn. And we discovered quite how much of his 'private' wealth derives from his public role. theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-int…

King Charles III personally owns 321 private houses and cottages near his Sandringham palace - and half of a load of other people’s gardens. Maeve McClenaghan and I went to meet some of his tenants theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

It’s five years since I was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer. I wrote a big piece for Saturday magazine about the worst year of my life - terror, grief, miscarriage - and how it has led to some of the happiest theguardian.com/society/2023/a…

What’s it like living nextdoor to Britain’s most expensive (and empty) house? Find out in my Guardian Saturday story here theguardian.com/money/2023/apr…

Today the Guardian is launching Cost of the crown, an investigation into royal wealth and financing. Here is why we think the UK monarch urgently requires this kind of scrutiny: theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

The company that operates the pipeline leaking oil into Poole harbour is owned & run by a multibillionaire amateur racing driver who owns 46 sports cars including a £12m McLaren F1 GTR

Today he’s posting about his cars. No apology or mention of oil leak

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Jes Staley, the former boss of Barclays, has been accused in court of “personally observ[ing] the sexual abuse of young women” by Jeffrey Epstein.

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Charity begins at home, or at least a £16m ski clubhouse, if you're a super rich billionaire Brexiteer living in a tax haven theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/…

“Ratcliffe has donated money to a local charitable endeavour”

When reporter attempted to join the club they were told “admission requirements” include paying a £25,000 joining fee followed by annual membership fees of £6,000.

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The UK's richest person - Jim Ratcliffe - is being investigated for using a charity to build a £16m 'exclusive.. members only' ski lodge in Courchevel. - by me theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/…

Govt accused of introducing a “simply staggering, huge tax cut for richer households” that will leave “the super-wealthy laughing all the way to the actual bank” theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/s…

Billionaire Richard Caring is refusing to remove three “incongruous and dominant” windows from his £40m mansion despite the council ordering him to do so theguardian.com/business/2022/…

The first superyacht taken from a sanction oligarch is being auction off - but for the benefit of JP Morgan not Ukrainian refugees. theguardian.com/world/2022/aug…

Some govt ministers are trying to prevent Sheldon Mills, the chairman of Stonewall, from getting the top job Competition & Markets Authority because he is pro-trans rights theguardian.com/business/2022/…