![]() The family initially accrued their wealth in 1677 when Sir Thomas Grosvenor married the heiress Mary Davies who brought the Grosvenor the “estates which would become the cornerstone of the family’s later wealth”, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.ĭespite the family’s great wealth, the 32-year-old Duke was sent to a state primary school before he attended Ellesmere College, a co-ed independent boarding school. The Grosvenors have long been closely associated with the Royal Family with the 7th Duke of Westminster being one of King Charles's 33 godchildren. Instead, he must ensure he is a good “caretaker” of his estates.īorn in London in January 1991, Hugh Grosvenor was the third of four children and the only son born to the late Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, and his wife, Natalia. While speaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 1995, his father described the 7th Duke as being born with the “longest silver spoon anyone can have”, but said he must not spend his life “sucking on it”. ![]()
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