The Earl of March and Kinrara: what next for the Goodwood estate company?

Profile of Charles, Earl of March and Kinrara - the dashing earl who'll charge you a £200,000 fee to join his Goodwood Club.

Charles, Earl of March and Kinrara, is never short of a new proposition. Having spent the past 15 years transforming the Goodwood estate into a mini-conglomerate of businesses, the entrepreneurial earl is moving into the hospitality industry. Lord March is particularly fond of the expression "unique selling point", says the FT. In this instance, that might well be the eye-popping £200,000 membership fees he's planning to charge for the privilege of joining the Goodwood Club, which will be housed in "the doghouse" a palatial Georgian edifice that was originally home to the estate's hunt packs.

The new club is an important element of March's strategic "sporting bet", says The Sunday Telegraph. Since inheriting the management of the estate from his father, the Duke of Richmond, in 1991, he's been on a mission to turn it into Britain's most glamorous sporting brand. As well as Glorious Goodwood, the 200-year-old racing meeting, there are now two annual motor-sport festivals, an aviation club, a golf course and one of the oldest cricket pitches in Britain. And there's a 3,000-acre organic farm and a BMW-run Rolls-Royce factory.

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She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.

Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.