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Britain's 600 aristocratic families have doubled their wealth in the last decade and are as 'wealthy as at the height of Empire'
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Sri Lanka: Kandyan aristocrat John Henry Meedeniya (1867-1931), also known as J. H. Meedeniya Adigar, with his family in 1905. In 1592 Kandy became the capital city of the last remaining independent
![Britain's 600 aristocratic families have doubled their wealth in the last decade and are as 'wealthy as at the height of Empire' Britain's 600 aristocratic families have doubled their wealth in the last decade and are as 'wealthy as at the height of Empire'](https://i.inews.co.uk/content/uploads/2019/07/MEMORIAL-Westminster-134871.jpg)
Britain's 600 aristocratic families have doubled their wealth in the last decade and are as 'wealthy as at the height of Empire'
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