Britain's Richest Duke Kept Coco Chanel As His Mistress. He Begged. She Ruined Him: Bendor Grosvenor

He owned the freehold of half of Mayfair and Belgravia, a Cheshire palace with 54 bedrooms, more than 130,000 acres, two ocean-going yachts and half a million acres of hunting ground in France. By most reckonings Hugh "Bendor" Grosvenor, the 2nd Duke of Westminster, was the richest man in Britain. F