The Aristocrat Magician who turned his back on his family’s banking empire to do card tricks for The Queen…
Magician Drummond Money-Coutts on turning his back on his family’s banking empire to do card tricks – and the stunt that nearly killed him…
My father, Crispin Money-Coutts, the 9th Baron Latymer, works forCoutts, the family bank, so when I left school at 18, I went into banking. I spent six months at Goldman Sachs and knew straight away it wasn’t for me.
What I really wanted was to become a professional magician. As a little boy, I’d been fascinated by anything mysterious – I was shy, introverted and unhappy for a large part of my childhood, but magic was always my escape. Read more..