He attended
Gordonstoun, a boarding school in
Elgin, Moray, Scotland, after which he served the British Army for two years, worked as a financier in the
City of London and briefly as a farmer. In the late 1960s, he became a film producer, running Cupid Productions, a film production company. He produced
Sympathy for the Devil, a film starring
The Rolling Stones and directed by
Jean-Luc Godard, and
Vanishing Point in 1971. In 1985, he was listed in ''
Debrett's Peerage'' as a resident of
Le Schuylkill, a high-rise building in
Monaco. Later in the 1980s, he returned to England. He was a director of the jewellers Theo Fennell Plc. He has served on the board of trustees of the Tibet House Trust for 20 years.
Cowdray Park estate In 1995 he inherited his paternal estate at Cowdray Park, in West Sussex, purchased by his great-grandfather in 1909, now containing the mansion house known as Cowdray Park, a polo club, a golf club, a dairy herd, forestry, 330 houses, several farms and much of the town of Midhurst. In and in 2011, he put the 16 bedroom mansion house up for sale via agents
Knight Frank, at an asking price of £25 million, including two lakes, two swimming pools, six cottages, 12 flats, a bowling alley, cricket pitch, polo field, but with only of the estate. In 2017 having failed to find a buyer for the house, he took it off the market and drew up plans to convert the two wings into 7 short-leasehold luxury apartments with the reception areas to be hired out for conferences, corporate events and weddings. ==Personal life and family==