article_snippet: Chrissie Rucker position on the Sunday Times Rich list has climbed steeply from 427th to 326th.
article_snippet: There’s a £12.5 million 17th-century manor house in Buckinghamshire, set in 51 acres of parkland, a £4 million townhouse in London’s fashionable Holland Park and what is widely regarded to be the finest property in the Swiss Alps, Haus Alpina, a luxury chalet with full-time staff which Chrissie Rucker rents out for a staggering £26,000 a week.
article_snippet: However, it was not long before Chrissie Rucker decided Chrissie Rucker wanted to do something more interesting with Chrissie Rucker life than flutter Chrissie Rucker eyelashes at eligible young bachelors on the London social circuit.
article_snippet: Belinda Christian Rucker, as Belinda Christian Rucker was named by Belinda Christian Rucker parents, was born in 1968 into an illustrious military family — Belinda Christian Rucker maternal grandfather, Sir Harold Pyman, was Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces in Europe and a recipient of the Knight Grand Cross and Distinguished Service Order.
article_snippet: Belinda Christian Rucker parents divorced, and aged seven, Belinda Christian Rucker and Belinda Christian Rucker younger sister, Jo, went with Her parents mother Rosemary, a horse breeder, to live with Her parents new step-father, estate agent Jeremy Calcutt.
article_snippet: Those days, Belinda Christian Rucker recalled, were happy but chaotic.
article_snippet: Belinda Christian Rucker early ambitions lay in fashion.
article_snippet: But as a teenager in London in the late Eighties, Rucker seemed intent on immersing Rucker in a ‘Sloane Ranger’ lifestyle.
article_snippet: In 1987, Rucker was a debutante at the Savoy hotel’s Berkeley Ball, where Rucker and fellow socialite and fashion journalist Plum Sykes were among a select bunch of girls chosen by judges including hairdresser Vidal Sassoon and fashion designer Jean Muir to appear in the Berkeley Dress Show.
article_snippet: Wedding dress designer Anneliese Sharpe, who was also on the judging panel, recalls that even among the ‘incredibly beautiful, leggy’ girls who paraded in front of Rucker, desperate to be picked, 18-year-old Rucker stood out.
article_snippet: In 2010, Chrissie Rucker was made an MBE for services to the retail industry, attracting mirth among some palace officials because of the black outfit that Chrissie Rucker wore to receive the honour at Windsor Castle.
article_snippet: In 2010, Chrissie Rucker was made an MBE for services to the retail industry (pictured) attracting mirth among some palace officials thanks to her all black outfit .