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The brothers behind Pines and Needles, Sam and Josh Lyle

If you thought Christmas trees couldn't be hip, think again.Brothers Sam and Josh Lyle, descendants of the co-founderof sugar firm Tate & Lyle, have sold Christmas trees to MickJagger, Noel Gallagher, Madonna and One Direction's LouisTomlinson. Last week, Prince Harry was spotted leaving theirstall in London's Battersea Park, alongside girlfriend MeghanMerkel, carrying a six-foot Nordman Fir on his shoulder. Sam,now aged 35, started the business, Pines and Needles, whenhe was just 13, together with his brother, Josh, now 27.

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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