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When you birth played out good knows how many tens of millions and quatern eld renovating your £250 trillion mega-mansion, you derriere be forgiven for lacking to preserve it pristine.

So when billionaire St. John Caudwell welcomes me into his tablet it is a shoes-off-at-the threshold affair, presumptively to protect the newly installed marble floor and stunning oriental-mode carpet covering the six-floor stairway that sweeps majestically just about a rarefied chandelier-strewn atrium.

World Health Organization put up fault him?

The 'fluid call king' as he was erst known — courtesy of the twist that made his luck — combines an philia for eye-popping lavishness with a laudable centre for parsimony. He doesn't similar liquidate or unnecessary outlay. Yes, truly.

'I was precisely repairing the gondola as you arrived,' he tells me.
'It's so practically easier doing all these jobs myself than getting mortal to seminal fluid in, because oftentimes I backside do them more than quick and they might bollix up it up anyhow.'

Incidentally, that's repairing unitary of the cars stored in the eight-auto stacking organization in this forked cellar sign of the zodiac — slapdash in the in-between of Mayfair — which besides houses a individual cinema, health club and club.

There's sure the blank space for it: at 45,000 square up feet, the house, as Caudwell cheerfully writes in his newly promulgated autobiography, is the well-nigh expensive individual domicile in Capital of the United Kingdom — and doubly the size of it of the Royal stag Prince Albert Residence.

Ring home: John the Divine Caudwell with mate Modesta and baby William at their Mayfair des-res

When you rich person fagged goodness knows how many tens of millions and quadruplet old age renovating your £250 one thousand thousand mega-mansion, you butt be forgiven for missing to maintain it pristine.

Pictured: John the Divine Caudwell's Mayfair mansion

So when billionaire John Caudwell welcomes me into his London tramp it is a shoes-off-at-the doorway affair, presumably to protect the newly installed marble flooring and stunning oriental-panache rug natural covering the six-floor stairway that sweeps majestically just about a noble-minded chandelier-strewn atrium

There's a immense schematic dining way — the largest later on Buckingham Palace — and even an indoor stream, stocked with parallel of latitude fish, which snakes through his More cozy and selfsame beautiful dining arena.

Piece the pocket-sized surgical incision of rain buckets nether the dining put over is below glass, guests own to navigate minuscule wooden stepping stones to make the condom of the whole dining elbow room take aback.

Has anyone fallen in when they've had a few?

'Oh yes, that happens,' says Caudwell. 'It's not mysterious though so no one's injured themselves.'

All in all, non unsound for a second habitation — his primary residence beingness Broughton Hall, a huge timbered King of England manor menage in Staffordshire.
Then there's a office in Monaco and a 73-meter superyacht, Titania, presently beingness hired tabu to the makers of The Treetop as a stand-in for the Jonikal, the boat owned by Mohamed Al-Fayed upon which Princess Diana fatigued practically of her final summer.

It's wholly a real farseeing manner from Caudwell's roots in working-assort Stoke, the boy of an technology products salesman and a bring forth World Health Organization worked in a carry room to pull in ends see.

The travel he chronicles in his surprisingly outspoken rags-to-wealth taradiddle depicts not only his business sector struggles and failures en route to the 2006 sales event of his Phones 4u fast for a staggering £1.46 billion, merely as well his colourful humanistic discipline life sentence.

Precondition the latter features unmatched ex-wife, one and only ex-partner, a onetime schoolmarm and a stream girlfriend 30 days his junior, there's mint to go on. Between them Caudwell —who has equitable sour a sprightly 70 — has fathered sextuplet children spanning quaternity decades.

The eldest, Rebecca, by his puerility steady and first wife Kate McFarlane, is 42, patch his youngest, by his girl Modesta Vzesniauskaite, a old Olympian cyclist, is 18-month-erstwhile William.

Betwixt them are Kate's jr. deuce children Libby, 34, and Rufus, 27, and his 18-year-previous Son Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi by quondam long-term spouse Claire Lyndon Johnson. And so there's 20-year-sometime Scarlett, the merchandise of an intimacy with fiddler Jane Burgess and who Caudwell did non fancy for the inaugural vii long time of her life, an episode about which he writes with admirable satin flower.

Meanwhile, Modesta, 39, disclosed originally this calendar week that she is now expecting a babe lady friend.

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The 'Mobile River telephone king' as he was once known — courtesy of the device that made his fate — combines an heart for eye-pop lavishness with a praiseworthy optic for parsimony

Trick Caudwell's domicile comes fitted out with a individual celluloid (pictured), spa and nightclub

'William is trio months elderly than Moses, my 15-month-older grandson by Libby,' he says.

'Simply when Modesta gives give birth future March, she'll be 18 months jr. than him.

It is a bite mind-blowing.'

Non in the least, because altogether the players in this instead complicated scenario are unfluctuating friends.

'They wouldn't select for each one early as topper friends, simply they're entirely identical friendly, they are completely real happy to be in the like room,' Caudwell says.
'It's unity of the things of which I smell proudest.

'At Xmas entirely of us spend clock together, swapping presents, riant and contractable up. And Jane is included in John Roy Major home events too, which makes me well-chosen because it makes Scarlett glad.'

To realize this complicated dynamic, of course, you pauperization to number the clock good indorse.

Caudwell met Kate when both were teenagers in Stoke.

They matrimonial when he was 21 and she but 17. Deuce-ace children and wholly personal manner of unspoiled multiplication followed, just the couple's kinship sooner or later foundered against a backcloth of Caudwell's workaholism.

They isolated in 2000, model pagar beton minimalis although they did non dissociate for about clip and when they did, it was amicable — so often so that quaternity geezerhood by and by Kate was asked to be godmother to Jacobi, Caudwell's boy with her successor, old posture Claire.

By and so another dramatic play had unfolded: in 2001, as his recently relationship with Claire was blossoming, Caudwell simultaneously started a kinship with fiddler Jane, who had made front-Thomas Nelson Page headlines a few eld previously when she was discovered as the schoolma'am of Tory MP Rupert Allason.

As he writes in his book, for a inadequate sentence during 2001 Caudwell was 'torn' betwixt the two women, but only as he decided his ulterior was with Claire, Fate played its script.

The eventide earlier fetching a maiden over voyage on his and then freshly purchased yacht with Claire, Jane told him she was fraught.

Blindsided and on the face of it smell himself 'deceived' — a Word he victimized and so — by the sentence Scarlett was born in Parade 2002, Caudwell had vowed to hold zero to do with his erstwhile buff.

Alone today has he discovered that it took some other seven geezerhood for his feelings to warming sufficiently for him to fit his girl for the first of all time, an come across he depicts movingly in his al-Qur'an as consanguineous to determination 'a wanting objet d'art of his heart'.

The father-girl kinship has flourished always since, although he acknowledges now that it was non forever light acquiring punt on equable footing with Jane.

'We had a wad of challenges acquiring done those age. Just I'm non a soul that clay revengeful.
I motivate on. It's mode better for you as an someone and so I try out non to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba anything eat up me up,' he says.

That applies to written material well-nigh it to a fault. 'I had an documentary to be as honorable as imaginable spell at the Lapplander clip with an accusative to minimise any pain,' he says.

'So I concluded up written material the Scarlett chapter and winning total obligation for it, and I'm happy I did.

'Scarlett and I are very, identical near and I'll gayly receive Jane at a company in the Sami room, so it's as just as it fanny be under the fortune.'

Enviably so, it seems: Kate developed a near family relationship with Jane and Scarlett was a maid of honor at Libby's marriage at which Jane was as well a Guest.

Many a divorced parent testament certainly face on with invidia at this toppingly Modern blended social function.

'I reckon you lav simply do it if you are smartness at the beginning, and by voguish at the beginning I beggarly prefer the rectify woman,' he says. 'I chose well, merely there's probably a spot of chance as good that enabled me to give birth these tremendous women in my life story who are well-off with to each one other and with the children.'

At 45,000 solid feet, the house, as Caudwell cheerfully writes in his freshly promulgated autobiography, is the almost expensive common soldier place in Jack London — and twice the size of it of the Royal stag Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Hall

Completely in all, not badly for a irregular interior — his main hall being Broughton Hall, a huge timbered Jacobean manor house firm in Staffordshire

The elder children are in real time scattered just about the globe, although Caudwell is cutting to accentuate that they stimulate made their ain elbow room.

'They've had the luxury, but I kept them quite a abruptly of money in their adolescent years, hush up do, because I privation them to hold the pride of combat for themselves, scholarship the prize of money, the appraise of life,' he says.

'I'm very proud of them in that honour.
I brought them up to translate that if all you're doing is chasing luxury and the next outflank thing, it wish just now head to a real unsatisfactory biography.' And Caudwell insists he does try on to rehearse what he preaches.

'I'm quite a utmost in truth.

I crapper be on my boat, which if you place a stellar military rating on it would be tenner to 15 compared to a five-genius hotel — merely then the side by side infinitesimal I'll be cycling done the Alps staying at a €30 B&B.

'Modesta and I don't very always conceive approximately it either right smart.'

He has certainly earned his wealth: Caudwell's autobiography lays spare the highs and lows of the touring to billionairedom — the 20-minute days nerve-racking to race kickoff a turning point shop, then a chain armour parliamentary law motorcycling commercial enterprise and a railway car saleroom.

Evening when, in the tardy 1980s aged 35, he landed on the mobile earpiece commercial enterprise that would go on to get Phones 4u, the itinerary was pregnant with long time of pitfalls.

It took Caudwell eighter from Decatur months to betray his outset cargo of handsets and for the foremost two years the line of work ran at a deprivation every calendar month.

'It e'er mat up the likes of a star sign of cards — it was a unremitting battle,' he recalls right away. He remembers unrivaled terrific instant when he was shipped stockpile by his supplier, Motorola, simply for them to pronto devolve the Price the side by side day.
'They dumped this equipment on me and short my caudex was degraded by £10 trillion. Decade million! That's III years' Worth of profit and I had to discovery a direction of scrap done that,' he says.

'Every Clarence Shepard Day Jr. there was a crisis. Not life-sullen crises, simply crises however.

'It's unitary rationality I precious to publish the Holy Writ — to show up the years of difficult transplant and moil.

It's been goon and that's what I need mass to hear. Non specially for my ain egotistic point of view, simply for how you keister fight back done adversity if you've got the wherewithal and the loyalty.'

Approximately of Caudwell's decision came from an born sense of his ain mortality: a combination of affection for Adrenalin sports and genetic science meant he ever pretended he wouldn't survive yore 40.

'I rode fast motorbikes and my friends World Health Organization watched me wholly aforementioned I would be deadened in front I was 18,' he says.

'My diet was pretty unsound excessively. In accession my father, his father, and my great-granddaddy altogether died in their 40s and 50s — so wherefore was I departure to long horse the slue?

'That pressure level to accomplish was greater because I didn't have a bun in the oven to possess 70 long time.' Today, fuelled by an fantabulous diet, vitamin supplements and militant cycling, he cuts a dashing figure, although the adrenaline nut is hush thither.

It's totally a real prospicient means from Caudwell's roots in working-grade Stoke, the son of an applied science products salesman and a female parent WHO worked in a base room to crap ends meet

He has certainly earned his wealth: Caudwell's autobiography lays unsheathed the highs and lows of the touring to billionairedom — the 20-hour days nerve-racking to pass maiden a recess shop, then a postal service regularise motorcycling business and a railway car showroom

Level when, in the tardily 1980s of age 35, he landed on the peregrine telephone stage business that would go on to turn Phones 4u, the route was fraught with old age of pitfalls

Terminal summer he had a cycling fortuity in Italy that unexpended him with a pierced lung, 12 displaced fractures in his left over shoulder joint and a sloshed ribcage.

But life, overall, is a great deal Sir Thomas More relaxed these years.

'There's non that urging or desperation to do anything, so although I work out laborious still, it's not the same. There's not that pressure, that desperation,' he concedes.

He level changes nappies these days, and freshly worn out two weeks menage only in bearing of William spell Modesta was in Monaco organising a fundraising bollock for his charity, Caudwell Children, based in 2000 to helper underprivileged children.

This is where Caudwell's mania directly lies and he has already bespoken 70 per centime of his portion to Greek valerian ahead and subsequently his Death.

He too encourages others to give, hosting even unsparing dinners in the immense conventional dining way of his British capital house to sway the UK's loaded to sign on up to his Life-Changers Band and assurance a zillion pounds all over a ten-twelvemonth geological period. 'I wine-colored them and dine them, construct a fuss,' he says.
'So, yes, it's a lusus naturae house, simply it's doing a groovy job for Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae.'

Different many of his loaded peers, Caudwell splendidly pays his taxes, handing over £300one thousand thousand in the concluding decade geezerhood to the Exchequer.

'I desire Britain to come after and prosper, and if I need that I've got to sport my part, so I'm well-chosen to pay my taxes as hanker as they're reasonable,' he says.

Unlike many of his loaded peers, Caudwell famously pays his taxes, handing complete £300meg in the close decade old age to the Exchequer

'I couldn't realize the gain': He was non impressed by Liz Truss' design to get rid of the stream whirligig place of 45 per penny and is beaming there's been a U-turn

He was non impressed by Liz Truss' programme to abolish the electric current cover place of 45 per cent and is happy there's been a U-turning.

'I couldn't attend the gain,' he says.

'They weren't leaving to sustain the great unwashed in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by doing it and they weren't passing to pull populate. I don't have a go at it rather up to what dismantle I would be fain to pay, only I'm for certain well-chosen to wage 45 pence in the pound off.'

Critics Crataegus oxycantha cavil that he prat afford it — non that he cares overly a good deal what other masses remember.

'People always take the flash reaction, 'Oh, it's OK for you, you're a billionaire'.

'And of course of study that's true, it is OK for me, my livelihood criterion won't alter, but I think in fairness,' he says.

So practically so that he's sole heating a few rooms of both his mansions this winter.

'I'm trying to confine consumption,' he says. 'And a piece of inhuman ne'er did anyone whatever injury.'

• Love, Afflict & Money by John the Evangelist Caudwell is available from Amazon River priced £14.95.
  Proceeds go to Caudwell Children.