Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2009/January 2010 | Page 48

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INTERVIEW
Left: Star billing: With Whoopi
Goldberg
Below: Action: The set of The
Hitcher

of England, and about three weeks later

It took another eight years or so to

British prep school, public school and

I got this call saying would you mind

overcome entrenched systems, but a seed

Cambridge. Bill’s siblings were brought

coming in and talking to the Secretary

was sown and London did, of course, give

up in the British Embassy in Spain, but

of the Bank of England!” Bill lets out a

birth to a futures market.

Bill, much younger, was raised without

delighted high pitched laugh. “I said yeah

Bill believes his ability to think outside

the inhibitions associated with their class.

ok.” (Giggle.) “We talked for four or five

the established ideas of the time came

“We were living on a farm in Essex. My

hours about how they were missing a

from having a more international outlook.

mother would suddenly realise she hadn’t

fortune: trades were being bought with

His father, though educated in Britain,

seen me for hours. I’d be off on my

dollars but everything has to be done

was raised with a very un-British freedom:

horse.”

through Sterling, so the Bank of England

living on the Spanish copper mines, he

must be able to manipulate how trading

had been allowed to roam all over the

and the confidence instilled by public

is being done.”

land on his horse – until being sent to

school probably accounts for a lot. For

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Self sufficiency born of such freedom,