A traveller who was raised in a caravan on the side of the road in Leicester has become the UK's richest gypsy after setting up his own business. Alfie Best decided to take the business route as he got older and became an entrepreneur as he set up his own firm.
“Britain's richest gypsy” Alfie Best has revealed the brutal daily routine that has helped him forge a billion-pound empire. From humble beginnings in a caravan to losing everything in a recession and earning it back again, it's not been a straight ride to the top for Alfie.
THE mum of Britain's richest gypsy has said she knew her son was destined to become a millionaire. Alfie Best's parents struggled to make ends meet when he was growing up but Jane Best says he was destined to become a financial success. The business tycoon, 53, is now thought to have a net worth of around £741million.
BRITAIN'S richest gypsy bought a football club for £15million – and he actually hates footie. Alfie Best, has a net worth of £740million and his wealth has got him a fleet of supercars, a personalised Aston Martin helicopter worth £4.5m and East Thurrock FC.
Alfred William Best, better known as Alfie Best (born 1970), is a British Romanichal businessman and philanthropist who is the current chairman of Wyldecrest Parks, a mobile home park company.
Gypsies and Travellers now use modern, good quality vehicles and caravans, rather than the old fashion wooden vardo. The main reason for travelling is to work, to follow fairs and visit family.
Gypsies Live a Simple Life
Gypsies don't have a permanent home because their life is more on traveling, because of this, it is impossible for them to have a job at the office and make a lot of money. Most gypsies settle making money by looking for temporary jobs like gardeners, nail artists, and painters.
The Boswell clan were a large extended family of Travellers, and in old Nottinghamshire dialect the word bos'll was used as a term for Travellers and Romani in general. Hence, many claiming the title King of the Gypsies come from the Boswell family.
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Tommy Shelby and his kin are Irish-Romani (sometimes spelled Romany) Gypsies, a unique cultural and ethnic group present in Britain since the 1500s. The award-winning Peaky Blinders is directed by Steven Knight and has run for 6 seasons, the most recent hitting U.S. Netflix in June 2022.
John Shelby's wife, Esme, is also a Romani Gypsy in the show, with her character playing a huge part in Peaky Blinders season 6 because of her Romani heritage and her connection to the Shelby family.
Gipsy Love (German title Zigeunerliebe) is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár with a libretto by Alfred Willner and Robert Bodanzky, provided with English translations and revisions by several hands.
Doncaster is the permanent home to the UK's largest Gypsy Traveller populations. A large proportion who reside in Doncaster now live in bricks and mortar accommodation or privately owned sites.
In total around 63,000 people in the UK identified themselves as members of these groups, of which 58,000 were living in England and Wales. The South East region of England had both the largest number of Gypsies and Irish Travellers and the largest number per 10,000 people.
There is no king or queen. Traveller families often have someone that makes the main decisions that will affect the family as a whole, and is usually a patriarch or matriarch of the family. This is often the same for Romany people, who have no tradition of royalty.
Gypsies (including English Gypsies, Scottish Gypsies or Travellers, Welsh Gypsies and other Romany people) Irish Travellers (who have specific Irish roots) Roma, understood to be more recent migrants from Central and Eastern Europe.
In the former Yugoslavia, one woman has had more hits over more years than just about anyone else: Esma Redzepova, also known as "Queen of the Gypsies."
Callie (Kelly) Mitchell, Queen of the Gypsies of America.
Typical Romany surname: common ones include Cooper, Smith, Lee, Boswell, Lovell, Doe, Wood, Young and Heron.
What is the difference between Gypsies and Travellers? While gypsy is a generic term used to refer to wandering tribes that contain many ethnicities within themselves, travelers happen to be nomadic people belonging to Ireland and Scotland.
Britain's richest gypsy, who was born in a caravan, is set to become a billionaire as his home parks empire continues to grow. Alfie Best, who was born on the side of a road near Leicester, now lives in a £6m mansion in Surrey.
Some of the better known areas of work that Gypsies and Travellers are involved in include seasonal agricultural work, motor trading and tree-felling. Some are employed as academics, teachers and public servants and in this way they add to the local economy.
To earn a living today, gypsies might weave furniture, make bricks, resell clothing and goods, or trade horses, but employment is typically a side note in their existence. Sources repeatedly underscore the difficulty that the Roma have in obtaining regular work because employers often don't want to hire them.