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More than 2,000 RBKC residents are earning over £1m a year
HMRC figures show that more than one in ten of the 18,700 people in Britain earning seven figures-plus live in Kensington & Chelsea; law firm warns on risk of losing "highly mobile" HNWI to other jurisdictions post-Brexit
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