This is how Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, presented himself

[winetourdriver01]

"I must apologise for not appearing before you in peacock-blue plush wearing a diamond and sapphire tiara, a turquoise dog-collar, ropes of pearls and slippers studded with Burma rubies; but I prefer, and always have preferred, Scotch tweed."
This is how Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, presented himself in an interview with the Daily Mail in 1904, shortly after his bankruptcy, and six months before his death in Monte Carlo at the age of 29. The reporter was "astonished" to find a man "so extraordinarily as other men are ... whose tastes and lack of intellect have been enormously exaggerated".
Astonishment was a common reaction to the Marquess. The public couldn't get enough of him. This was a man who frittered away a huge family fortune, mainly on costumes and jewels; who paraded through London with a poodle dressed in pink ribbons tucked under his arm; who amazed his audiences with his sinuous "butterfly dance"; who modified his car so that the exhaust pipe sprayed perfume.
Most of the Marquess's effects were sold from his family estates soon after he was declared bankrupt, and all his personal papers were destroyed by the Paget family after his death.
Credit: The Guardian.

[winetourdriver01]

1. Selfish

This guy blew through the family fortune in record time. And I'm talking about the equivalent of sixty million pounds in today's money. I would think that took some doing. His family was distraught.

[Karadeniz]

2. The British class system enabled a lot of ego.