Let me ask you a question. Are you fed up with all the lies and garbage put out by a lot of so-called “GURUS” recently? I know I am.
It is getting crazy out there, paid actors (that are really not that good), fake screenshots of trillion dollar incomes, outrageous claims that are just so far out there they are in ORBIT!
Then we have the “Push Button Millionaire” overhype with magic software that will have $1000s flying out of your computer every time you press that button! Really? Are you serious?
Well, even though I have become the ultimate skeptic as I am sure you are now, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Someone has finally stepped up and is setting the record straight… that person is Sean Donahoe.
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you should have heard of Sean Donahoe. He was the guy behind the bestselling Video Marketing Goldmine course earlier this year. He is known for “Telling it like it is!”. I really love his no-BS message and REAL solutions for marketing and what actually works.
There are several things you need to know about Sean. First, his products are top-notch and very high-quality and he consistently over delivers. Second, his stuff just works!
No pie-in-the-sky claims, he will tell you straight “Getting wealthy online is possible but it takes work”. Now, that being said, he does show you how to do things the right way to avoid any pitfalls and hassles to really streamline things dramatically.
That is why I am really excited and writing this today. Sean is doing something AMAZING on April 28th. He is finally releasing his Extreme Niche Empires course. This course has been under wraps for almost a year as he honed, optimized and streamlined one of the most powerful money making strategies I have ever seen (and we have seen 100s of these over the years)
What Sean has done is nothing short of INCREDIBLE. He is going to share how he created an EMPIRE of high-authority autopilot income sites targeting niches that scare almost everyone else off… and he is making a FORTUNE doing it.
Now it’s your turn. This incredible course outline exactly how to do this yourself and do it the EASY WAY. This is not some crazy site building software that will get Google slapped (like many of them did after the recent Google Panda update). No, Sean is very unique, he shows you how to create laser-targeted, high authority sites that the search engines LOVE and rank like crazy.
He has packed this course with a ton of his INSIDER SECRETS that I have never seen anywhere else. This stuff is so powerful that it would blow your mind and has made me even rethink how I do things.
So, go check it out. If you are reading this before April 28th he has some very powerful videos that he is releasing too that will AMAZE you and give you a great idea about what is going on and even share some powerful tactics that you can start using right now.
I encourage you to go watch these videos and learn from one of the true masters of Internet Marketing and someone you should listen to!
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Holy smokes… you gotta watch this video…
Yesterday, I sent you an email with a link to a
(no-cost) video on generating revenue very quickly
online, even if you've never done it before.
It did not cost you a thing either. It is a must-see
video by a Texas man who's figured a few things
out about Internet Marketing few understand...
and it's still up right now (not for long though).
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AND NOW...
his business partner is piling on even more!
This next video is by a guy who has done millions
online in several niche markets and has built
multiple lists in those niches EACH ONE WITH
OVER 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS ON EACH LIST!
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These videos and complimentary content just
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guys are teaching.
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doing and take a look at these powerful training
videos.
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(no-cost) video on generating revenue very quickly
online, even if you've never done it before.
It did not cost you a thing either. It is a must-see
video by a Texas man who's figured a few things
out about Internet Marketing few understand...
and it's still up right now (not for long though).
It's still up right here:
==> http://www.SmartWealthSolutions.com/?rd=ga1KYTwD
AND NOW...
his business partner is piling on even more!
This next video is by a guy who has done millions
online in several niche markets and has built
multiple lists in those niches EACH ONE WITH
OVER 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS ON EACH LIST!
Go Here to get this tremendous video on the house:
==> http://www.SmartWealthSolutions.com/?rd=ga1KYTwD
These videos and complimentary content just
keep getting better. I'm glued to what these
guys are teaching.
You really need to stop what you are
doing and take a look at these powerful training
videos.
They are loaded with solid content.
If you would like to get your hands on extremely
valuable content, at absolutely zero cost, then go
here at once before they remove the videos.
You only have a short time to watch these.
Seriously.
Check it out here:
==> http://www.SmartWealthSolutions.com/?rd=ga1KYTwDEnjoy!
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Friday, April 22, 2011
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Facebook Update: Rescue to Facebook iFrame Change Is Here!
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Ex-New Mexico governor Gary Johnson declares for president. Who dat, as GOP field grows some more.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
I'm going to tell you right up front: I like Gary Johnson. He's an ultra-personable, plain-talking, gets-things-done kind of guy. But he's got a fever -- Potomac fever -- that's going to upend his life for the next year and more until the next Republican National Convention in 2012.
You see, Johnson wants to be president of these United States... and so he's taken his near zero name recognition to Concord, New Hampshire where Thursday, April 21, 2011 he declared his candidacy. God help him...
Gary Johnson's my kind of guy.
Born January 1, 1953 in Minot, North Dakota (a good place to get out of), he ultimately moved to New Mexico and graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1975. We like that school in our family; my brother went there, too. Johnson and his family now live in Taos, one of the most beautiful places on earth.
In 1976 he had one of those "aha" moments that changes lives. Having graduated he was looking around for something he could do that would enable him to use his undoubted entrepreneurial skills. He decided to create a little business that would do all the fix-ups and home repairs all home owners need but which most of us are all-thumbs at doing. Gary had all the right stuff for business success. He was personable, "can-do" oriented, the man who told you what he would do... and then did it! That unstoppable American formula for success... where a person with a good idea and the determination to succeed helps others and earns big.
His first major break with his new firm -- Big J Enterprises -- was receiving a large contract from Intel's expansion in Rio Rancho which increased Big J's revenues to $38 million. Johnson was now a wealthy man, confronting one of the bedrock problems that all successful people must solve: how to find, train, motivate and keep good employees and do everything else you have to do to succeed. Always practical, Johnson went back to school, enrolling in a time management course. This helped him grow Big J into a big-time business with over 1000 employees. At that point, with all the money he and his family needed for life...he sold the business, so he could get started helping fix-up America, which had a host of home problems.... without the skills to solve them. Big J to the rescue...
"People Before Politics".
Johnson entered New Mexico politics for the first time in 1994. He approached the state Republican Party with the (to them) absurd idea he should run for governor, wresting the state's government from the entrenched Democratic establishment. They told him to take a hike and run for the state legislature, the most junior of positions.
But Johnson had what you need for success: an idea he believed in, the money to support his belief.... and a slogan that was more than mere words: "People before Politics". It was just what New Mexico wanted to hear. Johnson became the giant-killer of New Mexico, defeating former Republican governor David Cargill in the Republican primary and incumbent Democratic governor Bruce King in the general election. New Mexico had itself a straight-talking man who said what he meant and meant what he said. It was a revelation to the home folks of Nuevo Mexico.
Johnson, to everybody's surprise but his own, set about reshaping and reinventing New Mexico's government. He evaluated what the state was doing by asking two sensible, "get to the bottom of it" questions: what are we spending our money on... and what are we getting in return?
Legislators from both parties and every bureaucrat in New Mexico did what they are good at doing, protecting themselves and their interests, sabotaging everything they could. They were, after all, the haves who took too much for the little they gave. Johnson was their worst nightmare. Mr. "Can Do" became Mr. "You Won't". He used his gubernatorial veto over and over again, vetoing more bills and appropriations than all other 49 U.S. governors combined. Yup, he meant what he said... And the people of New Mexico responded by re-electing him in 1998 with 55 percent of the vote. It was an astonishing bouquet from the people he was always honest to and fair; they realized he was about as good a governor as they could get. Politicians of the pandering ilk take notice.
Johnson was retired because of a two-term limit. (Another indication of what a silly idea that is. Let the people decide when to retire their officials.) This gifted, personable guy, with a resume as long as your arm (for instance he left New Mexico with a huge surplus) was at loose ends... for a couple of minutes.
Johnson's "Our America Initiative", Founded 2009.
Forced out of the governor's chair, he responded by creating in 2009 the "Our America Initiative" , a nonprofit political advocacy committee that promotes common-sense business approaches to governing. Gary Johnson meant to do for the people of suffering, fed-up America what he had already done for the long-suffering people of New Mexico...
... which is why he found himself in chill and breezy Concord, New Hampshire on this April day.
He brought with him what has always distinguished the man: practical common- sense gleaned from proven business and high-level governing experience. More than that, he offers the kind of "let's roll up our sleeves and solve this problem together" approach that is what people crave. Our problems, we know, are not insoluble so long as we work together. A man like Gary Johnson believes he's the guy best able to work with Americans this way and so, one problem tackled after another, create the nation we want.
Frankly, this approach ought to play well in New Hampshire. The folks in the Granite State are pragmatic, "let's get it done together" folks. As Gary Johnson goes door to door doing the retail politics winning the primary requires, he'll find, I think, folks skeptical of course (they're that way up north) but friendly, curious, and increasingly receptive. In short, this bright-eyed New Mexico boy, with his unfeigned interest in the people of New Hampshire and America could be the dark horse the GOP has been looking and hoping for in a large field which has so far failed to impress and inspire.
These New Hampshire folks take very seriously their task of scrutinizing each and every candidate, doing what every civic-minded American would do given the opportunity: to look carefully, ask thoughtfully, and come to their judgements independently. That is what they do and what their famous primary is for.
I'll be surprised if he does not do well enough to take his message to other states. So, he decided to launch his campaign by achieving his first New Hampshire goal. That's why he left Concord following his announcement and went to climb Tuckerman Ravine, a large glacial bowl on 6,288-foot Mount Washington, the tallest mountain in the Northeast.
Johnson's climbed Mount Everest; Tuckerman Ravine was a "piece of cake". He's hoping this is a good omen for the primary. It could happen. The people of New Hampshire, after all, like astonishing the rest of us. We shall just have to wait and see...
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc. , providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses.
Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Joseph Szanati http://SmartWealthSolutions.com. Check out Commission Maniac -> http://jozsef.xclone.hop.clickbank.net
I'm going to tell you right up front: I like Gary Johnson. He's an ultra-personable, plain-talking, gets-things-done kind of guy. But he's got a fever -- Potomac fever -- that's going to upend his life for the next year and more until the next Republican National Convention in 2012.
You see, Johnson wants to be president of these United States... and so he's taken his near zero name recognition to Concord, New Hampshire where Thursday, April 21, 2011 he declared his candidacy. God help him...
Gary Johnson's my kind of guy.
Born January 1, 1953 in Minot, North Dakota (a good place to get out of), he ultimately moved to New Mexico and graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1975. We like that school in our family; my brother went there, too. Johnson and his family now live in Taos, one of the most beautiful places on earth.
In 1976 he had one of those "aha" moments that changes lives. Having graduated he was looking around for something he could do that would enable him to use his undoubted entrepreneurial skills. He decided to create a little business that would do all the fix-ups and home repairs all home owners need but which most of us are all-thumbs at doing. Gary had all the right stuff for business success. He was personable, "can-do" oriented, the man who told you what he would do... and then did it! That unstoppable American formula for success... where a person with a good idea and the determination to succeed helps others and earns big.
His first major break with his new firm -- Big J Enterprises -- was receiving a large contract from Intel's expansion in Rio Rancho which increased Big J's revenues to $38 million. Johnson was now a wealthy man, confronting one of the bedrock problems that all successful people must solve: how to find, train, motivate and keep good employees and do everything else you have to do to succeed. Always practical, Johnson went back to school, enrolling in a time management course. This helped him grow Big J into a big-time business with over 1000 employees. At that point, with all the money he and his family needed for life...he sold the business, so he could get started helping fix-up America, which had a host of home problems.... without the skills to solve them. Big J to the rescue...
"People Before Politics".
Johnson entered New Mexico politics for the first time in 1994. He approached the state Republican Party with the (to them) absurd idea he should run for governor, wresting the state's government from the entrenched Democratic establishment. They told him to take a hike and run for the state legislature, the most junior of positions.
But Johnson had what you need for success: an idea he believed in, the money to support his belief.... and a slogan that was more than mere words: "People before Politics". It was just what New Mexico wanted to hear. Johnson became the giant-killer of New Mexico, defeating former Republican governor David Cargill in the Republican primary and incumbent Democratic governor Bruce King in the general election. New Mexico had itself a straight-talking man who said what he meant and meant what he said. It was a revelation to the home folks of Nuevo Mexico.
Johnson, to everybody's surprise but his own, set about reshaping and reinventing New Mexico's government. He evaluated what the state was doing by asking two sensible, "get to the bottom of it" questions: what are we spending our money on... and what are we getting in return?
Legislators from both parties and every bureaucrat in New Mexico did what they are good at doing, protecting themselves and their interests, sabotaging everything they could. They were, after all, the haves who took too much for the little they gave. Johnson was their worst nightmare. Mr. "Can Do" became Mr. "You Won't". He used his gubernatorial veto over and over again, vetoing more bills and appropriations than all other 49 U.S. governors combined. Yup, he meant what he said... And the people of New Mexico responded by re-electing him in 1998 with 55 percent of the vote. It was an astonishing bouquet from the people he was always honest to and fair; they realized he was about as good a governor as they could get. Politicians of the pandering ilk take notice.
Johnson was retired because of a two-term limit. (Another indication of what a silly idea that is. Let the people decide when to retire their officials.) This gifted, personable guy, with a resume as long as your arm (for instance he left New Mexico with a huge surplus) was at loose ends... for a couple of minutes.
Johnson's "Our America Initiative", Founded 2009.
Forced out of the governor's chair, he responded by creating in 2009 the "Our America Initiative" , a nonprofit political advocacy committee that promotes common-sense business approaches to governing. Gary Johnson meant to do for the people of suffering, fed-up America what he had already done for the long-suffering people of New Mexico...
... which is why he found himself in chill and breezy Concord, New Hampshire on this April day.
He brought with him what has always distinguished the man: practical common- sense gleaned from proven business and high-level governing experience. More than that, he offers the kind of "let's roll up our sleeves and solve this problem together" approach that is what people crave. Our problems, we know, are not insoluble so long as we work together. A man like Gary Johnson believes he's the guy best able to work with Americans this way and so, one problem tackled after another, create the nation we want.
Frankly, this approach ought to play well in New Hampshire. The folks in the Granite State are pragmatic, "let's get it done together" folks. As Gary Johnson goes door to door doing the retail politics winning the primary requires, he'll find, I think, folks skeptical of course (they're that way up north) but friendly, curious, and increasingly receptive. In short, this bright-eyed New Mexico boy, with his unfeigned interest in the people of New Hampshire and America could be the dark horse the GOP has been looking and hoping for in a large field which has so far failed to impress and inspire.
These New Hampshire folks take very seriously their task of scrutinizing each and every candidate, doing what every civic-minded American would do given the opportunity: to look carefully, ask thoughtfully, and come to their judgements independently. That is what they do and what their famous primary is for.
I'll be surprised if he does not do well enough to take his message to other states. So, he decided to launch his campaign by achieving his first New Hampshire goal. That's why he left Concord following his announcement and went to climb Tuckerman Ravine, a large glacial bowl on 6,288-foot Mount Washington, the tallest mountain in the Northeast.
Johnson's climbed Mount Everest; Tuckerman Ravine was a "piece of cake". He's hoping this is a good omen for the primary. It could happen. The people of New Hampshire, after all, like astonishing the rest of us. We shall just have to wait and see...
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc. , providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses.
Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Joseph Szanati http://SmartWealthSolutions.com. Check out Commission Maniac -> http://jozsef.xclone.hop.clickbank.net
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Facebook Update: Rescue to Facebook iFrame Change Is Here!
"Star" this email, because I know you are going
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Hey, I talked to you yesterday about FBMaxed
coming to the rescue of Facebook's trashing of
FBML and implementation of the new iFrame.
You will no longer be able to use FBML to build
your pages, you have to rely on the more powerful
but less documented iFrame Pages.
Good new is, FBMaxed is right here helping you!
Watch FBMaxed In Action:
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Don't bother learning about how to use iFrames,
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As simple as that, yes more powerful than the old
Facebook FBML!
>> Learn about the new Facebook iFrame
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See you on Facebook!
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Hey, I talked to you yesterday about FBMaxed
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You will no longer be able to use FBML to build
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but less documented iFrame Pages.
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Don't bother learning about how to use iFrames,
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As simple as that, yes more powerful than the old
Facebook FBML!
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Eating with history. The story of the newest acquisition to my collection, quondam property of the dukes of Devonshire.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
This is a story of unimaginable wealth, the highest social position in the land. It is a story of palaces and prime ministers and master craftsmen. It is the story of another Kennedy tragedy you don't know about and of monumental taxes and forced sales. It is the story of murder.
And it is the story of me, who now has en route from New York, two massive silver dishes, captivating, their "wow factor" apparent to even the most obtuse and least perceptive. Even such people can feel that these are something very special...and so they are.
First, the man who commissioned them.
In 1811, a young man named William George Spencer Cavendish succeeded to the title and fortune of the Dukes of Devonshire. Born in 1790, he thus became at a stroke the richest peer in England. He was already a master in the art of burning through money quickly. His father's man of business, Mr. Heaton, warned the 5th duke, his father, thus:
"My Lord Duke, I am sorry to inform your Grace that your son appears disposed to spend a great deal of money."
The 5th duke's laconic reply was "So much the better, Mr. Heaton, he will have a great deal to spend." We could all wish for a father so sensible and so rich.
Now master of the largest fortune in England, the young man... spent it. On everything you could think of... and then on things, very expensive, eccentric things, which only the very, very rich can even imagine. One of those things was the grandest fountain in Europe, which shoots its spray up to 300 feet. It was built for the intended visit of Tsar Nicholas I to Chatsworth, the duke's country place. But the Tsar didn't come after all and never saw it. It didn't matter... the money kept rolling in.... and out.
In the mid 1820s, this prince of purchasers got around to silver. And like everything this seasoned connoisseur touched, it had to be not merely grand but opulent, excessive, in your face, and of course "unique, Your Grace, quite unique." So he went to the master silversmith Robert Garrard.
When Robert Garrard took over the firm in 1802 it already had a long history with sovereigns and princes. It had started in 1722 with George Wickes. Frederick, Prince of Wales, father of King George III was a major patron. Where princes buy, trendy lesser folk will buy, too. And so it proved with the family Garrard. They knew the secret of entrancing fickle potentates. Such grandees wanted things unique, finely crafted, and excessive. Garrard was an expert in satisfying even the most difficult... and so he and his master craftsmen set to work on a silver service that was, quite simply, the finest in Europe, which meant the finest in the world. Both the 6th duke and Robert Garrard knew what they were about... and of course cost was never, ever a factor.
The duke wanted one thing and one thing only: perfection...
... and he got it!
In due course, pieces from this lavish service began to arrive at Chatsworth, the focus of the Cavendish empire. Each piece was hallmarked. Each piece featured the splendid ducal coat of arms... and all the serving dishes featured the ducal coronet with the strawberry leaves meant for dukes and dukes only. The most discriminating aristocrat in Europe was satisfied... or as satisfied as a restless man with a connoisseur's eye and the means to gratify could ever be.
And so the story might have ended here, with a splendid silver service doing its bit to create an ambiance fit for a duke and his suitably impressed guests. But the story does not end here because humans do end. We die... and our possessions... migrate to others, all of whom have stories, too. Fast forward, then, to Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire.
Born in 1895, succeeded to the dukedom -- and of course the still complete silver service designed by Robert Garrard in 1825 -- in 1938.
Still rich, still powerful, still owning and living with an overabundance of things rich, famous, astonishing, Cavendish and every other aristocrat now had a very potent enemy: taxes, especially death duties. These could be circumvented but only by establishing trusts. These could pass properties largely intact to eager heirs... but only if the strict requirements were met. But things went wrong, disastrously wrong. The Cavendishes and their world were vulnerable.
First the heir, Lord Hartington along with his wife "Kick"" Kennedy, JFK's favorite sister, was killed in a plane crash (1944). Both families, a la "Romeo and Juliet", had bitterly opposed the marriage; like "Romeo and Juliet" the lovers married anyway... and died together tragically.
Then the duke died, amidst a background of murder and scandal. The duke's sister, Lady Dorothy, wife of Harold Macmillan (my distant cousin) and future British Prime Minister (1957-1963) was having a notorious affair with another Tory politician Robert Boothby, enfant terrible and practised bi-sexual seducer.
Conspiracy theories abound about the 10th duke's death. Why was the death certificate fudged; why had the coroner not been contacted as by law he should have been? What had the freemasons to do with the matter... and, most of all, was he murdered... or die naturally?
Whatever the facts (and they are suggestive and controversial to this day), the duke was dead (1950), a few months before his asset-saving trust became operational. Mourning, devastated, the House of Cavendish now needed mountains of cash. The result was Christie's auction of "Highly Important Old English and French Silver from the Chatsworth Collection" (June 5, 1958) A large part (but not all) of the 6thh duke's magnificent silver service went on the block, including two over-the-top meat dishes, 5,038 grams of silver, hallmarked by Robert Garrad, with the resplendent ducal coat of arms, the finial with ducal coronet and strawberry leaves.
These are now wending their way to me, and the next part of their destiny, the next part of the story, but only the next. For these glorious items have a life long beyond mine. The saddest thing of all is I will not be here to know it.
But for now, for now, they are mine all mine. I shall enjoy them immensely and tell all those who dine from them the story I have just shared with you, for now I am part of their story, gladly so, forever more.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also an avid art collector and author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Joseph Szanati http://SmartWealthSolutions.com. Check out Six Figure RENEGADE -> http://jozsef.renegadex.hop.clickbank.net
This is a story of unimaginable wealth, the highest social position in the land. It is a story of palaces and prime ministers and master craftsmen. It is the story of another Kennedy tragedy you don't know about and of monumental taxes and forced sales. It is the story of murder.
And it is the story of me, who now has en route from New York, two massive silver dishes, captivating, their "wow factor" apparent to even the most obtuse and least perceptive. Even such people can feel that these are something very special...and so they are.
First, the man who commissioned them.
In 1811, a young man named William George Spencer Cavendish succeeded to the title and fortune of the Dukes of Devonshire. Born in 1790, he thus became at a stroke the richest peer in England. He was already a master in the art of burning through money quickly. His father's man of business, Mr. Heaton, warned the 5th duke, his father, thus:
"My Lord Duke, I am sorry to inform your Grace that your son appears disposed to spend a great deal of money."
The 5th duke's laconic reply was "So much the better, Mr. Heaton, he will have a great deal to spend." We could all wish for a father so sensible and so rich.
Now master of the largest fortune in England, the young man... spent it. On everything you could think of... and then on things, very expensive, eccentric things, which only the very, very rich can even imagine. One of those things was the grandest fountain in Europe, which shoots its spray up to 300 feet. It was built for the intended visit of Tsar Nicholas I to Chatsworth, the duke's country place. But the Tsar didn't come after all and never saw it. It didn't matter... the money kept rolling in.... and out.
In the mid 1820s, this prince of purchasers got around to silver. And like everything this seasoned connoisseur touched, it had to be not merely grand but opulent, excessive, in your face, and of course "unique, Your Grace, quite unique." So he went to the master silversmith Robert Garrard.
When Robert Garrard took over the firm in 1802 it already had a long history with sovereigns and princes. It had started in 1722 with George Wickes. Frederick, Prince of Wales, father of King George III was a major patron. Where princes buy, trendy lesser folk will buy, too. And so it proved with the family Garrard. They knew the secret of entrancing fickle potentates. Such grandees wanted things unique, finely crafted, and excessive. Garrard was an expert in satisfying even the most difficult... and so he and his master craftsmen set to work on a silver service that was, quite simply, the finest in Europe, which meant the finest in the world. Both the 6th duke and Robert Garrard knew what they were about... and of course cost was never, ever a factor.
The duke wanted one thing and one thing only: perfection...
... and he got it!
In due course, pieces from this lavish service began to arrive at Chatsworth, the focus of the Cavendish empire. Each piece was hallmarked. Each piece featured the splendid ducal coat of arms... and all the serving dishes featured the ducal coronet with the strawberry leaves meant for dukes and dukes only. The most discriminating aristocrat in Europe was satisfied... or as satisfied as a restless man with a connoisseur's eye and the means to gratify could ever be.
And so the story might have ended here, with a splendid silver service doing its bit to create an ambiance fit for a duke and his suitably impressed guests. But the story does not end here because humans do end. We die... and our possessions... migrate to others, all of whom have stories, too. Fast forward, then, to Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire.
Born in 1895, succeeded to the dukedom -- and of course the still complete silver service designed by Robert Garrard in 1825 -- in 1938.
Still rich, still powerful, still owning and living with an overabundance of things rich, famous, astonishing, Cavendish and every other aristocrat now had a very potent enemy: taxes, especially death duties. These could be circumvented but only by establishing trusts. These could pass properties largely intact to eager heirs... but only if the strict requirements were met. But things went wrong, disastrously wrong. The Cavendishes and their world were vulnerable.
First the heir, Lord Hartington along with his wife "Kick"" Kennedy, JFK's favorite sister, was killed in a plane crash (1944). Both families, a la "Romeo and Juliet", had bitterly opposed the marriage; like "Romeo and Juliet" the lovers married anyway... and died together tragically.
Then the duke died, amidst a background of murder and scandal. The duke's sister, Lady Dorothy, wife of Harold Macmillan (my distant cousin) and future British Prime Minister (1957-1963) was having a notorious affair with another Tory politician Robert Boothby, enfant terrible and practised bi-sexual seducer.
Conspiracy theories abound about the 10th duke's death. Why was the death certificate fudged; why had the coroner not been contacted as by law he should have been? What had the freemasons to do with the matter... and, most of all, was he murdered... or die naturally?
Whatever the facts (and they are suggestive and controversial to this day), the duke was dead (1950), a few months before his asset-saving trust became operational. Mourning, devastated, the House of Cavendish now needed mountains of cash. The result was Christie's auction of "Highly Important Old English and French Silver from the Chatsworth Collection" (June 5, 1958) A large part (but not all) of the 6thh duke's magnificent silver service went on the block, including two over-the-top meat dishes, 5,038 grams of silver, hallmarked by Robert Garrad, with the resplendent ducal coat of arms, the finial with ducal coronet and strawberry leaves.
These are now wending their way to me, and the next part of their destiny, the next part of the story, but only the next. For these glorious items have a life long beyond mine. The saddest thing of all is I will not be here to know it.
But for now, for now, they are mine all mine. I shall enjoy them immensely and tell all those who dine from them the story I have just shared with you, for now I am part of their story, gladly so, forever more.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also an avid art collector and author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Joseph Szanati http://SmartWealthSolutions.com. Check out Six Figure RENEGADE -> http://jozsef.renegadex.hop.clickbank.net
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