In our How I Manage My Money series, we aim to find out how people are spending, saving and investing money to meet their costs and achieve their goals. This week, in our celebrity edition, actor, businesswoman and star of Hayu’s The Real Housewives of London, Juliet Mayhew, talks about visiting war zones with her father in her younger years, investing in art at the age of 19 and what she wants her children to know about finance.
Financially, what was life like for you growing up?
I grew up in a privileged situation in that my parents were both academics and medics, so we never really wanted for anything, and my parents were exceptionally generous.
My father’s grandfather was a missionary in Argentina, so my dad had really been brought up on the mission field. They’d grown up with little, but a lot, because they had a loving family.
They always had the house full, they were always feeding people, people were always coming to stay, they were always giving. They had a big house in the Cotswolds. We saw the world extensively. My holidays were spent with my father doing incredible projects in areas of the world in need.
