The Daily Mail (London, England), November 23rd, 2002
Byline: RICHARD PRICE
DRAWING deeply on a handrolled cigarette, the future Earl Mountbatten of Burma steps out of his dingy South London flat.
With a woolly hat pulled down over his ears, record bag slung over his shoulder and a fistful of heavy rings, Nicholas Knatchbull shuns the aristocratic pedigree which makes him the heir to pound sterling100million.
His one-bedroom home is a world apart from Broadlands, the 60-room Hampshire mansion in 6,000 rolling acres where he grew up.
But amazingly, the Prince of Wales's godson is actually enjoying an improvement in his circumstances.
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