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Apart from a tiny elite of wealthy families, it didn't happen generation after generation. The majority had very little left at the end of their lives, if they had anything at all. Life was simply a struggle to survive for 99% of the people.

pic rel 7th Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor,

>now 32, he is the richest person under 35 in the UK, worth £9.878 billion