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Although we still pride ourselves on being the furthest you can
come from nouveau riche, we had become part of the privileged
and affluent, and perhaps had started to act the part more than we
acknowledged. Our girls joined the ranks of pretty blonde princesses
being led to their £12,000-a-year private nursery by someone who was
obviously not Mummy. For the first time in my life, I even started to
buy business-class airline tickets. It seemed almost natural at the time
and we could easily justify the expense. I even took a call from Netjets
(the private jet-share company) and thought about it for ...