Golden Girl of the Gulf

From BBC News:

Amanda Staveley doesn't look like one of the world's biggest deal makers. For a start she's a tall blonde woman in her late thirties, and she's pretty glamorous as you'd expect from a former model who once dated Prince Andrew.

Perhaps more astonishing has been her route to the top - particularly as her academic career was cut short - she dropped out of Cambridge University. Her next move was to open a restaurant near the racing town of Newmarket.

It was there that she began to rub shoulders with visitors from the Gulf who were
dining there because of its proximity to the racecourse- customers included the associates of powerful rulers like Sheikh Maktoum of Dubai.

Perhaps more astonishing has been her route to the top - particularly as her academic career was cut short - she dropped out of Cambridge University. Her next move was to open a restaurant near the racing town of Newmarket.

It was there that she began to rub shoulders with visitors from the Gulf who were dining there because of its proximity to the racecourse- customers included the associates of powerful rulers like Sheikh Maktoum of Dubai.