The world’s oldest privately owned bank is unrepentantly nepotistic
C Hoare and Co has been run by the Hoare family for 12 generations, who cater for a select group of wealthy individuals.
I meet Bella Hoare on a warm May morning in the garden of her thatched Georgian cottage on the Stourhead estate in Wiltshire, where her family have had a home for more than 300 years.
Hoare, 50, appears suddenly from behind an ornamental fountain in jeans and white patched shirt, looking so much the spit of an en plein air artist you almost expect her to be clutching a paintbrush. “Isn’t it a glorious day!” she says. “The green of it. It smacks you right in the face.”
The Telegraph London
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