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Women are usually better at answering these questions than men, but I do remember a lot of the wedding day. At my mother's insistence, all the men were in morning suits, top hats, tails, gloves - the whole works. Although Joan and I resisted, we…

In the early days, as I was a working for my father, nothing was properly formalised. I think I started off with £3 and then I went up to £5. From an early age, I saved my money, first with an account in a Post Office Savings account and, later, I…