Xenia Howard-Johnston, former chatelaine of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, is an adviser working on deals to sell a house in the hundreds of millions and the world's largest private jet.

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The Democrats' county chair, Doris Adams, tells me Xenia is the belly button of Republicanism - and she seems to be determined to give the rival party a poke in the tummy.

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In fact, so predictable are boomers on this topic that, in a study done seven years ago, Xenia Montenegro, senior research adviser for the AARP, looked so hard at divorce in people over 50, she darn near "Nostradamused" that Shriver and Schwarzenegger, et. al, were headed for a split.

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