Charlotte Bingham: If I Had a Million...

You can have wealth without sophistication, but can you have sophistication without wealth? Charlotte Bingham, daughter of Lord Clanmorris, had a taste of the rich life until she was nineteen. This could have been her world. Instead, she chose to be a writer - her most famous book, Coronet Among the Weeds, which took the lid off the debutante scene, became a best-seller. Sophistication, or how to be rich, is a fantasy created by people who aren't.