- Born in Bermuda, 1951, the third son of the British Ambassador
- Attended Eton and split his college years between the London School of Economics and chilly Oxford, graduating summa cum laude
- Graduate studies at UC Berkeley: thesis entitled "Greed, Guts & Glory: Why Investing in War is Economically Wise and Ethically Criminal"
- Mastered alternative investment strategies known as "hedging"
- Spent four years in Asia exploring meditation (while his net worth quadrupled)
- Traveling forced him to discover unique haunts and remote hideaways
- Financial success allowed him to anonymously support emerging artists and social causes
- Fluent in seven languages
- Expert chess player, highly skilled at origami
- Extensive experience in Polynesian cultural preservation
- Trustee of one of world's leading museums
- Curator of an immense private collection of impressionist art
- Met Marie at private exposition in Venice at the Biennale
- Unfazed by gossip and no longer reluctant to let others into his life and truly extraordinary world