Bankers have won themselves a bad reputation recently but Drummond Money-Coutts, scion of the Coutts, the Queen’s bankers in The Strand, has a good name, hasn’t he? Now he is doing what all bankers should do, give away money.
He has been giving away bundles of £1,000 in £20 notes to five young people aged 10 to 12 whom he feels deserve it. They include Isabella, who wants to be a cellist and needs a cello and lessons, and Ruben, who wants to be a footballer and promises not to spend the cash on sweets.
“When I meet people who think I’m still connected to the bank I hear nothing but gripes and grumblings about them,” says DMC, who is now a magician. “I’ve never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.”
