MISS DORIS DUKE

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18440, 22 September 1931, Page 5

MISS DORIS DUKE

RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD. Miss Doris Duke, one-of the richest girls in the world, and certainly one of the shyest, is in London. Moreover, she hits been photographed. / She can.j Loin New York accompanied Ly Iter' mother some little time ago. They took rooms at one of the biggest hotels in Piccadilly, and apaiti from visiting a few exclusive restaurants they have not been seen in public; Miss;'; Duke, who is a beautiful young blonde of nineteen, is the most closely-guarded heiress of her day. She avoids camera men. She hales publicity. She possesses something in the neighbourhood of £30,000,0.00. Her father was the tobacco magnate, who made an enormous fortune. When she came to London (says the "Evening Standard”) she brought with her a completo staff of servants and her own motor car. Her father arranged that„she should be given amounts of increasing value as she grew older. The bequests started at the age of 12 with a modest £20,000 a year. Mr Duke was an enormous giver. He gave £8,000,000 to the Duke University ait Durham, North ;Carolina. ,Ile was born in a log cabin in the same township of Durham, spent his life growing tobacco, and invented cigarette cards. Miss Duke herself has secretly given much money for the alleviation of conditions in the slums of New York and London.